"'Don't worry about killing a few students,' goes the song. 'Discover America,' reads the ad. Haskell Wexler turns his savage eye to America Cané, specifically the police riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago. As cameraman turned director, Wexler raises all the issues of media responsibility and 'objectivity' that still confront us and throws in questions of narrativity in building his fiction around actuality. In the same year when Gordon Parks and Robert Downey were bringing black film into the mainstream, Wexler confronts the painful encounters of a white media treatment of black revolutionaries and makes us see the processes involved in making the invisible man visible." William Nestrick