This immersive, illuminating documentary uses archival footage to reconstruct the events of the November 1999 gathering of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in which over 40,000 people took to the streets of Seattle to protest the organization’s impact on human rights, labor, and the future effects of continued globalization. Employing a wealth of news reports and home video recordings, the filmmakers reconstruct the four-day affair in which boardrooms of an unelected body of international business leaders, power brokers, and corporate representatives are contrasted with and contested by a massing crowd of protesters encompassing a spectrum of generations, political affiliations, and agendas. While WTO/99 harkens back to a pre-millennial era recorded in Standard Definition and featuring few cell phones, it also stands as perhaps an opening salvo of our current reality, in which corporate largess stands in greater and greater contrast to the struggles of the populace.