Sacco and Vanzetti

Sacco and Vanzetti (2007)

  • 86% of critics liked it
    (29 reviews)

  • 59% of users liked it
    (1,717 ratings)

Filmmaker Peter Miller explores the crimes, trial, and execution of notorious 20th-century anarchists Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti in a documentary that highlights just how this landmark case came to symbolize the injustice and intolerance experienced by immigrants longing to pursue their… More

Unrated, 1 hr. 21 min.
Directed By
Peter Miller
Genres
Documentary
In Theaters
Mar 30, 2007 Wide
On DVD
Aug 21, 2007
First Run

Critic Reviews

  • Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune

    Nicola Sacco, Bartolomeo Vanzetti, and the incredible firestorm of outrage generated by their criminal trials have been largely neglected in recent years, but Peter Miller's absolutely engrossing documentary Sacco and Vanzetti brings it all back.

  • Matt Zoller Seitz, New York Times

    The meat-and-potatoes style of Sacco and Vanzetti seems less a failure of imagination than a means of putting in the foreground its intriguing subject matter.

  • V.A. Musetto, New York Post

    Miller, a New Yorker, uses archival footage, dramatized readings and talking heads, including Sacco's niece and a neighbor of Vanzetti's, to get his point across.

  • Jack Mathews, New York Daily News

    Miller's film shows how quickly Americans facing perceived foreign threats are willing to ignore basic liberties. Sound familiar?

  • Ronnie Scheib, Variety

    [Pic] does a superb job of condensing an overwhelming mass of documentation, archival imagery and artistic representation into a concise yet passionate history lesson whose relevance could not be timelier.

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Featured Audience Ratings

  • Randy T


    A solid documentary about one of the worst miscarriages of justice in American history.

  • Walter M


    [font=Century Gothic]"Sacco & Vanzetti" is an informative documentary about Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti, two immigrants and anarchists who were railroaded for a murder and robbery that happened near Boston in 1920 and executed in 1927.(Even though I heard of… More

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