Movie

Freak Power: The Ballot or the Bomb

★ 10/10 · 1 votes 2020 1h 30m Released

Documentary

Hunter S. Thompson went to the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago as a journalist and returned home disgusted, yet motivated by what he’d just seen: violently suppressed protests, riots, corrupt politicians, and abusive cops. Back in Aspen, he finds more of the same. The local police and sheriff’s departments are targeting young people, harassing and charging them with absurd crimes and trying to push them out of town. Hunter decides he has to do something to change the police brutality that has become the norm.

Cast

Hunter S. Thompson Self (archive footage) B Bob Braudis Self J Joe Edwards Self A Alex Sweetman Self E Ed Bastian Self T Travis Fulton Self