Willian Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe

I just finished watching William Kunstler: Disturbing the Universe, a documentary about an impassioned, successful, committed, civil rights attorney who ended his career as a criminal defense lawyer on heinous cases. The documentary was made by his daughters who try to piece together his career and make sense of the choices he made toward the end of it.

The footage of the civil rights movement, anti-war protests, Attica riots and massacre, and the Wounded Knee standoff were wonderful, and he emerges as an intense fighter for justice. His daughters don't do a great job explaining his transformation to criminal cases, and I didn't feel I got much insight into it. Except that I think part of it has to do with how the times had changed from the 60s and 70s into the 80s and 90s.

It was rewarding to learn that the rapist in the Central Park jogger case who he defended was years later exonerated. It sort of vindicates Kunstler, and it was a good note to end the documentary on, as if he always had right on his side.