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| Directed by | Johanna Hamilton |
| Written by | Johanna Hamilton Gabriel Rhodes |
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| Music by | Philip Sheppard |
Production companies | Big Mouth Productions Fork Films Motto Productions |
| Distributed by | First Run Features[1] |
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Running time | 80 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
1971 is a 2014 American documentary film and the directorial debut of producer Johanna Hamilton, who also co-wrote the film.[2] The film had its world premiere on 18 April 2014 at the Tribeca Film Festival and focuses on the break-in of an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania on Monday, March 8, 1971, to steal over 1000 classified documents.[3] It was pitched at the Sheffield Doc/Fest 2011 MeetMarket preceding its debut. The break-in took place on the night of the first Ali-Frazier boxing title fight dubbed the Fight of the Century.
Hamilton was inspired to create the film after learning that Betty Medsger was working on her book The Burglary: The Discovery of J. Edgar Hoover’s Secret FBI, which discussed the 1971 events and revealed the identities of many of the participants, who had remained anonymous up to that point.[4]
- ^ "1971". Retrieved 2019-01-29.
- ^ Sutcliffe, David Felix. ""A Different Approach to Dissent": 1971 Director Johanna Hamilton and Whistle Blowers on Government Abuses". Filmmaker Magazine. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
- ^ "1971". Tribeca Film Festival. Archived from the original on 2014-10-14. Retrieved 9 October 2014.
- ^ Jennings, Sheri. "Tribeca: Johanna Hamilton, 1971". Screen Daily. Retrieved 9 October 2014.