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George Wallace, in 1963, standing in a schoolhouse doorway at the University of Alabama to block desegregation. The Chicago demonstrations of 1968. The Munich Olympics massacre. The Patty Hearst kidn<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>ing and its nuttier-than-fiction heiress-on-the-run aftermath. The hijackings. Woodstock and Jonestown.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s no wonder that a lot of Americans thought the country was falling apart \u2014 and in many ways it was, because it needed to. Old systems and corruptions were cracking up. The dam of American conformity and obedience had burst, and what came pouring through was an unruly blend of freedom and violence and exaltation and chaos.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAttica,\u201d Stanley Nelson\u2019s stirring, scalding documentary about the 1971 Attica prison uprising, is an essential film that can now stand as a definitive vision of that epochal event. Drawing from a staggering array of footage that has never been seen before, Nelson puts the event together, moment by moment, day by day, with a clarifying view of its place in history and an empathy that extends to every person onscreen: prisoners and guards, officials and relatives, politicians and observers, the reporters who came and recorded it all. We see every point-of-view; the presentation isn\u2019t so much \u201cincendiary\u201d as novelistic. And in interviews with close to a dozen of the surviving prisoners today, Nelson nails down an extraordinary oral history of rage, fear, brotherhood, humiliation, yearning, and tragedy. The movie pulls us into the heart of an American revolt that turned into an American calamity.<\/p>\n<p>In September of 1971, the uprising at Attica was the largest prison rebellion the United States had ever seen. It began on a note of desperate idealism and was fueled, for a day or two, by a growing sense of liberation. The prisoners at Attica, a maximum-security correctional facility in upstate New York, didn\u2019t plan a riot \u2014 it unfolded spontaneously, organically. But it was like a flame set to kindling that had been drying, and rotting, for too many years. Attica was a hellhole, even for a prison. It was an end-of-the-line place, run on fear and institutionalized abuse. A roll of toilet paper, or a change of bedsheets, had to last you a month. Where was the toothpaste? The food was abysmal; Muslims were denied the right to worship and were fed pork. Teams of guards would come in at night to take out a prisoner they had a problem with and beat him.<\/p>\n<p>The guards, who lived in the town of Attica (where the only jobs available were dairy farming or working at the prison), were rural white small-towners. The prison population was 70 percent Black and Hispanic, many of them coming from the inner city. \u201cWhat could go wrong?\u201d asks the aging-hippie lawyer Joe Heath with rueful irony. In the movie, many make a point of how that essential cultural disconnect fed the tumult at Attica. Adding to the slow boil of tension were the revolutionary energies of the era. Many of the inmates had read Malcolm X and Eldridge Cleaver, had drunk in the prison drama of the Soledad Brothers, the insurrectionary rhetoric of the Black Panthers. They were primed to rise up.<\/p>\n<p>Nelson recreates the logistics of the revolt with suspenseful exactitude. Attica didn\u2019t look like other prisons; it was a massive divided fortress that, from certain angles, resembled a castle. The uprising began with the knocking down of a gate in the section known as Times Square (a jerry-rigged mold from the \u201930s gave way), at which point several prisoners attacked a guard named Billy Quinn and took his keys. He was severely beaten, but saved by four Muslim inmates who got a mattress and wheeled him out (we see the footage). \u201cAfter they got Quinn\u2019s keys,\u201d recalls one prisoner, \u201cthey opened up all four sides and said, \u2018We got the joint!\u2019 That began to be the battle cry.\u201d For a while, the raised-fist spirit of the prisoners was visibly stoked. Yet without weapons, they had only so much control. They retreated to the D-Yard, surrounded by guards standing on decks with guns. Most of the prisoners wore scarves or masks to hide their identities.<\/p>\n<p>Out of a total prison population of 2,200, approximately 1,200 inmates took part in the revolt. They took 30 guards hostage, and they demanded that reporters and TV <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> cameras be let into the prison. Those cameras changed the <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/game\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"7\" title=\"Game\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">game<\/a>. \u201cNow the prisoners had a worldwide audience,\u201d says one observer. They used it as leverage. The ABC News reporter John Johnson describes the \u201ccompletely surreal\u201d quality of walking through the yard (where he greeted men he\u2019d known from Bed-Stuy and Harlem). And the prisoners had something new: the hope that comes from being seen. We watch one of their leaders, Elliot \u201cL.D.\u201d Barkley, a young man in wire-framed glasses with just 90 days left in his sentence, read a manifesto in the yard. Describing \u201cthe unmitigated oppression wrought by the racist administrative network of this prison throughout the years,\u201d he declares, with calm power, \u201cWe are <em>men!<\/em> We are not beasts. And we do not intend to be beaten or driven as such.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The prisoners negotiated with New York\u2019s Commissioner of Corrections, Russell Oswald, who we see lumber into the prison and sit down at the table, a burly, uncomfortable-looking man who\u2019s like a penny-ante J. Edgar Hoover. The prisoners presented him with 30 demands, most about prison conditions; they also sought amnesty for their actions during the riot. Oswald cooperated, promising them more or less all of it, but talked a different game outside the pressure cooker of the prison than he did inside. It was as if he didn\u2019t realize the prisoners could see what he\u2019d said on TV.<\/p>\n<p>Then the worst possible thing happened: Billy Quinn, the guard who had first been attacked, died from his injuries. Amnesty for the rioters would now mean amnesty for murder, and it was therefore off the table. We see the prisoners meeting with a group of 30 \u201cobservers,\u201d including the New York Times\u2019 Tom Wicker, the counterculture attorney William Kunstler, and the Amsterdam News editor Clarence Jones. This was a prestigious and influential lot to have as mediators. The inmates, lighting up their demands on a media billboard, had put the U.S. prison system itself on trial. A few of the observers pleaded with New York Gov. Nelson Rockefeller to meet with the prisoners. In a better world, that\u2019s what would have happened.<\/p>\n<p>But time was running out on the Attica rebels. The media sword that was their greatest weapon came back to haunt them. For this was the apex of the \u201claw and order\u201d era, presided over by President Richard Nixon, who had been elected largely on that basis. (You could make a good case that the 1968 Chicago demonstrations sealed Nixon\u2019s victory.) Gov. Rockefeller wanted to be president, but the word on Rockefeller was that he was soft on crime. He was on the phone with Nixon, who denounced any gesture that would signify sympathy with the prisoners. (We hear tapes of the conversations between Rockefeller and Nixon, which play like bonus tracks from the Nixon tapes\u2019 greatest hits. Nixon: \u201cDid Wicker \u2014 was he recommending amnesty?\u201d Rockefeller: \u201cOh, yes.\u201d Nixon: \u201cOh, <em>God<\/em>.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>When you see what finally happened at Attica \u2014 and nothing I\u2019ve encountered lets you <em>see<\/em> it the way that \u201cAttica\u201d does \u2014 it is now, 50 years later, with an awareness that makes the shocking violence of it look all the more like a plan that was there from the beginning. For a few days, Oswald and his correctional officers seemed to have their hands tied, but they always knew the Plan B they could reach for \u2014 the one marked \u201cExcessive force.\u201d And they reached for it.<\/p>\n<p>It was obscene. In grainy black-and-white police-surveillance video that now takes on a ghostly poetic horror, we see footage of a helicopter flying over the walls and lowering itself toward the yard, unleashing a cloud of CO2 pepper gas. The prisoners, blinded and choking, were disarmed, making them sitting ducks for a massacre. And that\u2019s what it was. A massacre topped off, in a number of cases, by torture. We hear the guns <em>pop-pop-popping<\/em> like popcorn, and the film shows us photographs of the aftermath; they are ghastly to behold. But Nelson, in this final sequence, also reveals the devastating power of his documentary storytelling. He shows us how these prisoners became martyrs, with a stubborn glint of heroism in their refusal of heroism. And when he tells us that 10 of the hostages died, he does it in a way that leaves the audience wondering how it happened. 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