The True Story Behind Aaron Sorkin's Golden Globe-Winning Movie The Trial of the Chicago 7 People 3/1/2021 Aaron Sorkin took home the Golden Globe for best screenplay — motion picture for The Trial of the Chicago 7 on Sunday, over 50 years after the events that inspired the film transpired. With a star-studded cast including Eddie Redmayne, Frank Langella, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II and Sacha Baron Cohen, Sorkin delivers his take on the real-life trial that shook the U.S. in 1969. The Netflix film is based on the trial of eight anti-Vietnam War protestors — Abbie Hoffman, Jerry Rubin, Tom Hayden, Rennie Davis, David Dellinger, Lee Weiner, John Froines and Bobby Seale — who were charged with conspiracy and crossing state lines with the intention of inciting the riots that erupted at the 1968 Democratic National Convention in Chicago.