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©2015
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1 videodisc (79 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in
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On March 8, 1971, eight ordinary citizens broke into an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania, a town just outside of Philadelphia, took hundreds of secret files, and shared them with the public. In doing so, they uncovered the FBI's vast and illegal regime of spying and intimidation of Americans exercising their First Amendment rights. Despite conducting one of the most thorough investigations in its history, the FBI never solved the mystery of the break-in
Program content: ©2014
"Before the Pentagon papers and WikiLeaks, before Edward Snowden's NSA revelation, there was Media, Pennsylvania."
Cinematographers, Kirsten Johnson (interviews), Andreas Burgess (recreations) ; original music, Philip Sheppard
DVD ; NTSC ; widescreen presentation
In English, with optional Spanish subtitles ; optional English SDH subtitles for the deaf and hard of hearing