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Battle in Seattle

Battle in Seattle

6,3 /10 (266 Votes)
2007 EN 99 min

Overview

Thousands of activists arrive in Seattle, Washington in masses to protest the WTO Ministerial Conference of 1999 (World Trade Organization). Although it began as a peaceful protest with a goal of stopping the WTO talks, it escalated into a full-scale riot and eventually, a State of Emergency that pitted protesters against the Seattle Police Department and the National Guard.

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Release date

07/09/2007

Votes

266

Popularity

2.5

Six lives, six battles, one city.

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Released

Language

EN

Runtime

99 min

Budget

$8,000,000

Revenue

$908,847

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Filipe Manuel Neto

Filipe Manuel Neto

2022-11-19

⭐ 4

**It has some points of merit, but lacks neutrality.** I was too young in 1999 to remember this World Trade Organization meeting. However, I am fully aware that this type of summit is usually a rallying point for demonstrators in favor of a thousand ideals: rebels without a cause, anarchists, socialists, communists, environmentalists, conspiracy theorists... I don't really know what happened, but there is no doubt that these protests were violent and, to a certain extent, they managed to achieve their objectives, severely disrupting the summit and the life of the city, and becoming a jui…

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Wuchak

Wuchak

2025-12-11

⭐ 6

**_Rebels needing a cause vs. SWAT police in Jet City_** I never knew there was a battle in Seattle and learned that the ‘battle’ refers to the protests that halted the 1999 World Trade Organization (WTO) summit in Seattle from Nov 30 to Dec 3. Not being a fan of the typical ‘protestor’ who annoyingly blocks traffic, I put off seeing this docudrama; the fact that it bombed at the box office didn’t help. However, it works by informing you of the WTO with further details at the climax concerning the near future, not to mention writer/director Stuart Townsend seamlessly interspliced footage…

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