Produced and Directed By
Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler
Producer
Jesse Moss
Producer
Susan Korda
Executive Producer
Vanessa Hope
Cinematographers
Brett Wiley
Martina Radwan
Music
Shahzad Ismaily
Animation
Hubbub Inc.
Emily Hubley
Jeremiah Dickey
Editor
Emily Kunstler
Writer
Sarah Kunstler
Associate Producers
Tracy Bunting
Andrew Lutsky
Additional Photography
Ben Kutchins
Antonio Rossi
Matt Ruskin
Consulting Producers
Margaret Ratner Kunstler
Matt Ruskin
Socheata Poeuv
Charles Vogl
Consulting Producer for Chicken & Egg Pictures
Judith Helfand
Chicken & Egg Pictures
Julia Parker Benello
Wendy Ettinger
Judith Helfand
Motion Graphics
Skylab 5
Mark Thompson, Designer
Kevin Deckert, Production Artist
Graphic Design
Christopher M. Zucker
Sound
Eric Davidson
Mike Frank
Laura Hanna
Drew Skinner
Gabriel Monts
Supervising Sound Editor / Re-Recording Mixer
Coll Anderson M.P.S.E.
Sound Effects Editor
Matt Snedecor
Dialogue Editor
Aaron Weisblatt
Voiceover Recordist
Jesse Ferguson
Musicians
Shahzad Ismaily
Sam Amidon
“Mas o Menos”
Performed by The Budos Band
Written by Thomas Brenneck, Jared Tankel, Daniel Foder, Andrew Greene and Brian Profilio
From The Budos Band LP
Courtesy of Daptone Records Inc.
“Up From the South”
Performed by The Budos Band
Written by Thomas Brenneck and Daniel Foder
From The Budos Band LP
Courtesy of Daptone Records Inc.
“Blues my Naughty Sweet Gives to Me”
Performed by Terry Waldo and Ken Peplowski
Written by Arthur Swanstone, Charles R. McCarron and Carey Morgan (1919)
From Footlight Varieties LP
Courtesy of Terry Waldo
“Why”
Performed by Terry Waldo and the Gotham City Band
Written by Jelly Roll Morton and Ed Worac
From Footlight Varieties LP
Courtesy of Terry Waldo
“Get on Board Children” by Willie Peacock from ‘Voices of the Civil Rights Movement: Black American Freedom Songs 1960-1966,’ Smithsonian Folkways SFW40084, provided courtesy of Smithsonian Folkways Recordings. © 1997. Used by permission.
“Big Bad Bill”
Performed by Sam Amidon and Shahzad Ismaily
Written by Jack Yellen and Milton Ager (1924)
“They Move On Tracks of Never-Ending Light”
Written by Christopher Royal King, Raymond Brown, Jeremy Galindo, and Andrew Miller
Performed by This Will Destroy You
From This Will Destroy You LP
Courtesy of Magic Bullet Records
“Quiet”
Written by Christopher Royal King, Raymond Brown, Jeremy Galindo, and Andrew Miller
Performed by This Will Destroy You
From Young Mountain EP
Courtesy of Magic Bullet Records
Post Production Services
Final Frame
Colorist
Stewart Griffin
Online Editors
Ben Laffin
Joseph Lee
Interns
Joanna Arnow
Ara Cho
Daniel Hallahan
Heather Reid
Lillian Ruiz
Andrew C. Sloan
Nina Svatovic
Archival Footage
ABC News
ABC News VideoSource
BBC Motion Gallery
CNN
FOX
Getty Images
ITN Source/ Fox News
ITN Source/ Granada
ITN Source/ Reuter
The National Archives
NBC News Archives
New York State Archives
NY1 News
School of Architecture and Planning, SUNY Buffalo
TruTV
WSB Newsfilm Collection, University of Georgia Libraries
Peter Biskind
Richard Brick, The Brick Company, Inc.
Elizabeth Fink
Diane Christian and Bruce Jackson
Morley Markson
Kevin McKiernan
Roz Payne and Newsreel Films
Karen Ranucci
Lynne Sachs
Archival Audio
The Center for Constitutional Rights
The Freedom Archives
The Kunstler Family Archive
Pacifica Radio Archives
Archival Photographs
Associated Press
Baltimore County Public Library
Corbis
David Fenton
Andrew Gordon
Bruce Jackson
Joe Melchione
Maddy Miller
Nebraska State Historical Society
New York Post/Splash News
The Kunstler Family Archive
Courtroom Sketches
Ann Martin (Wounded Knee)
Verna Sadock (Chicago Conspiracy Trial)
Francis Simeni (Flag Burning)
Courtroom Sketch Photography
Brian C. Janes
Production Legal
Beigelman, Feiner & Feldman, P.C.
Angela Mak
Mark Beigelman
Deborah Hrbek
Ayla Ercin
Stanford Fair Use Project
Distribution Advisor
Josh Braun/ Submarine Entertainment
Fiscal Sponsors
Fractured Atlas
Women Make Movies
Interviewees
Herman Badillo
Dennis Banks
Harry Belafonte
Clyde Bellecourt
Daniel Berrigan
Julian Bond
Jimmy Breslin
Alan Dershowitz
Phil Donahue
Elizabeth Fink
Jean Fritz
Karin Kunstler Goldman
Tom Hayden
Bruce Jackson
Gregory Joey Johnson
Gerald Lefcourt
Ron Kuby
Margaret Ratner Kunstler
Nancy Kurshan
Rev. C. Vernon Mason
William Means
Michael Ratner
M. Paul Redd
Yusef Salaam
Bobby Seale
Barry Slotnick
Michael Smith
Lynne Stewart
M. Wesley Swearingen
Madonna Thunderhawk
Len Weinglass
Special Thanks
Michael Ratner
Karen Ranucci
Judy “Gumbo” Albert
Daniel Alterman
Alec Baldwin
Alec Barnhardt
Harvey Barlow
Edgar Bear Runner
Elizabeth Benjamin & Dan Coughlin
Lazar Bloch
Deborah Boardman
Clare Bruff
Selena Burke
Hope Carr
Center for Constitutional Rights
Diane Christian
Eileen Clancy
Ramsey Clark
Peter Cohen
Randy Credico
Louis Crespo
Bridget Cross
Dennis Cunningham
Buck Davis
Michael Deutsch
Bernadine Dorhn
Jane & George Drazek
Bruce Ellison
Kathy Engel
Jack Estes & Elizabeth Kovacs
Arthur O. Eve
Benjamin Feinberg
Judith Feinberg
Susan Ferguson
Richard Flacks
William Frapolly
Nancy Fritz
Marjorie Fritz Birch
Kenneth Gaines
Stephanie Glassman
Peter Gleason
Dan Goldman & Pristine Johannesen
Jessica Goldman & Michael Weaver
Neal Goldman & Karin Kunstler Goldman
Charles Grodin
Eileen Hansen
Abigail Heyman
John Hirsch
Mary and Emmanuel Horn
Karen Ingenthron
Bruce Jackson
Sarah Jones
Nancy Kain & Donald Cook
Haskell King
Hon. Damon J. Keith
George Kendall
Gregory Knell
Stefanie Kuhner
Pat Levasseur
Sandra Levinson
Beau Little Sky
Franklin MacMahon
Mark MacMahon
Poupa Marashi
Edmundo Marcado
Peter Markowitz
Claude Marks
Graham Marks
Morgan Mechik
Jaime Meline
Daniel Max Meyers & Joan Reinmuth
Maddy Miller
William Monning
Aaron & Lisa Morse
Barbara & Howard Morse
Jonathan Morse
Ben Murray
Sherry B. Ortner
Larry “Pun” Plamondon
New York Public Library Schomburg Center
For Research in Black Culture
Tom Poor Bear
Daniel Quiles
Ivan J. Ramirez
Jamieson Rhyme
Carlos Roche
Dagny Rodriguez
Ben Rosengart
Emily Rothschild
Sharonne Salaam
John Schultz
Susan Scott
Carol & Ron Sher
Michael Skolnik
Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth
Deborah & Michael Smith
Eli Smith
Chris Spotted Eagle
Eleanor Stein & Jeffrey Jones
Neal Sugarman
Amy Thesing
Kenneth Tilsen
Mark Tilsen
Mark Tilsen Jr.
Susan Tipograph
William Turner
Jerry & Rosalie Weider
Hon. Jack B. Weinstein
Gail Wilder
Howard & Rosalyn Zinn
Very Special Thanks
Jesse Ferguson
In Memory of
Vernon Bellecourt
Mary Horn
M. Paul Redd
Darius Truly
Dedicated to
Jamil Abdullah Al-Amin (H. Rap Brown)
Leonard Peltier
Free all political prisoners.
Major Funding provided by
The Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Additional Funding provided by
The Foundation for Jewish Culture’s
Lynn and Jules Kroll Fund for Jewish Documentary Film
The Jerome Foundation
New York State Council on the Arts
And others.
Executive producer for POV
Simon Kilmurry
Executive producer for ITVS
Sally Jo Fifer
William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe is a co-production of Disturbing the Universe LLC and the Independent Television Service (ITVS), with funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting (CPB).
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