5 Days in Denver (NR)

synopsis

For 5 days in 2008, a group of protesters calling themselves Re-create 68 took to the streets of Denver to dissent against the American government at the Democratic National Convention (DNC). Defying federal court orders, riot police and bad press, this motley assemblage of men and women ranging in age from 21 to 71, set out to "re-create the spirit of the sixties" and exercise their version of democracy with their voices and bodies as their only political capital. From the first big police-defying march on Day 1 to the counter-protester clashes on Day 3 to the off-course final rallying cry on Day 5, this documentary embeds viewers in the struggles of today's unconventional patriots.