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IAN SINCLAIR previews some of the hard-edged entries to the Yorkshire city’s annual Doc/Fest, which begins this weekend

DIRECTED by Johanna Hamilton, 1971 is an accomplished US feature-length documentary about the break-in that happened at the FBI regional office in Media, Pennsylvania, in 1971. 

Strongly opposed to their nation’s ongoing destruction of Vietnam a small group of activists decided to move from non-violent protest to non-violent disruption. 

Calling themselves The Citizen’s Commission To Investigate The FBI, they stole documents that showed J Edgar Hoover’s political police force was involved in a decades-long campaign of spying and subversion against the anti-war movement, black groups, the women’s movement and political radicals. 

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