CHICAGO 10

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Documentarian Brett Morgan ("The Kid Stays in the Picture") makes superheroes of the group of ideological scapegoats dubbed "The Chicago Seven." 

The group included such outspoken social-cause icons Abbie Hoffman, Tom Hayden and Black Panther Bobby Seale who were charged with numerous crimes related to the 1968 Democratic National convention.

With a combination of cinematically conceived animated court room sequences, photos, and newsreel footage, Morgan energizes the group's historic trial in all of its carnival aspects.

Here is an unabashed call to a new age of protests.

Is it agit prop propaganda?

You bet.

Hank Azaria, Dylan Baker, Nick Nolte, Mark Ruffalo, Liev Schreiber and the late Roy Scheider voice the characters' animated embodiment.

Rated PG-13. 103 mins.