The radical activist couple who fought for social change in the courtroom

The documentary Radical Love takes viewers inside the world of 1960s radicalism by focusing on the legal work of the husband-and-wife team Michael and Eleanora Kennedy. Specialising in high-profile civil rights cases, the duo defended the American Indian Movement, members of the Black Panther Party and the militant Left-wing group the Weather Underground, among many others. The film features interviews with many of the players in these intersecting social movements, including Weather Underground co-founder Bill Ayers, Eleanora Kennedy and Michael Kennedy, who, filmed in the months before his death in 2016, remained convinced of the righteousness of the causes he spent a lifetime fighting for. With his stirring portrait of deep love and radical activism, the US filmmaker William Kirkley raises timeless questions of law, ethics and political change.