About the film
1971 is a 2014 American documentary film and the directorial debut of producer Johanna Hamilton, who also co-wrote the film. The film had its world premiere on 18 April 2014 at the Tribeca Film Festival and focuses on the break-in of an FBI office in Media, Pennsylvania on Monday, March 8, 1971, to steal over 1000 classified documents. It was pitched at the Sheffield Doc/Fest 2011 MeetMarket preceding its debut.
The break-in took place on the night of the first Ali-Frazier boxing title fight dubbed the Fight of the Century.
From the film's Wikipedia article (CC BY-SA 4.0).