SILVER

When package bombs appear on the doorsteps of prominent politicians and businessmen in the summer of 1919, FBI agent William Flynn (David Strathairn) is tasked with finding those responsible. Retelling the story of famed anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti — both Italian immigrants — filmmaker Terry Green explores the disintegration of civil liberties during an era in which immigrants were labeled undesirables and detained for weeks, even months. A timely thriller with eerie parallels to the contemporary war on terrorism, Green calls his film, "a tribute to those who have stood tall for human rights in the face of adversity." DIR/SCR/PROD Terry Green. U.S., 2013, color, 94 min. RATED PG-13

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