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  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 20 m

Summary This documentary tells the story of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of a murder in 1920, and executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial. It is the first major documentary film about this landmark story. (Willow Pond Films)

Directed By: Peter Miller

  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 20 m
  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 20 m

Sacco and Vanzetti

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
70
User Score Mixed or Average Based on 5 User Ratings
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Summary This documentary tells the story of Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two Italian immigrant anarchists who were accused of a murder in 1920, and executed in Boston in 1927 after a notoriously prejudiced trial. It is the first major documentary film about this landmark story. (Willow Pond Films)

Directed By: Peter Miller

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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85% Positive
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15% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Generally Favorable Based on 13 Critic Reviews
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85% Positive
11 Reviews
15% Mixed
2 Reviews
0% Negative
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100
It's cleansing to see the facts laid out with intimacy and rigor, and the film earns the comparison it makes to the squelching of due process for some of today's terror suspects.
By Owen Gleiberman FULL REVIEW
90
Does a superb job of condensing an overwhelming mass of documentation, archival imagery and artistic representation into a concise yet passionate history lesson whose relevance could not be timelier.
By Ronnie Scheib FULL REVIEW
75
The effect is informative and moving, even if the film has an attack of the gooeys at the end.
By V.A. Musetto FULL REVIEW
70
Regardless of your opinion about Sacco and Vanzetti, the documentary should prove thoughtful and thought-provoking.
By Kevin Crust FULL REVIEW
70
The movie's meat-and-potatoes style seems less a failure of imagination than a means of putting in the foreground its intriguing subject matter.
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63
Miller's film shows how quickly Americans facing perceived foreign threats are willing to ignore basic liberties. Sound familiar?
By Jack Mathews FULL REVIEW
50
Now there is inconclusive but reasonable doubt, based on a letter that turned up in 2005 from Upton Sinclair, who had heard their disgruntled first lawyer say they were guilty. You'd think this nugget might show up in a new documentary about the case, but Peter Miller, known for his 2001 film about that other beloved song of the left, "The Internationale," has recast the story into a tale of prejudice against Italian immigrants and the violation of civil rights.
By Ella Taylor FULL REVIEW

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Production Company Willow Pond Films
Release Date Mar 30, 2007
Duration 1 h 20 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.willowpondfilms.com/sacco_and_vanzetti.html
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