I don't know if it was ever made into a movie, but.
Why yes! What do you know? http://us.imdb.com/Title?0121411

The musical Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris has a song, Marathon, about the turning of the decades. Sacco & Vanzetti are mentioned in that, but one of the most memorable lyrics to me is:

And the seventies flash and the eighties bang
And the nineties whimper and the century hangs...