William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe

Filmmakers Emily and Sarah Kunstler chronicle the infamous, controversial career of liberal, unpopular, New York City lawyer William M. Kunstler, who represented unsavory murderers, mobsters, rapists (e.g., the Central Park Jogger), and terrorists later in his career, but was also a prominent figure in the Chicago 8 trial, the civil rights movement with Martin Luther King, the massacre at Attica, and the standoff at Wounded Knee in their fascinating, informative, 85-minute, 2009 documentary by using photographs and archival film footage and interviews with his second wife Margaret Ratner Kuntsler, daughter Karin Kuntsler Goldman, attorneys (such as C. Vernon Mason, Ron Kuby, Michael Ratner, Alan Dershowitz, and Elizabeth Fink), journalist Jimmy Breslin, former Mayor Ed Koch, civil rights activists Julian Bond and M. Paul Redd, activists Daniel Berrigan and Gregory Johnson, and AIM leaders Dennis Banks, Clyde Bellecourt, and Madonna Thunderbird.
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