
This feature-length documentary focuses on the efforts by troops in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War to oppose the war effort by peaceful demonstration and subversion. It speaks mainly to veterans, but serves as a ready reminder to civilians that soldiers may oppose war as stridently as any civilian, and at greater personal peril.... (Full plot summary below)
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This feature-length documentary focuses on the efforts by troops in the U.S. military during the Vietnam War to oppose the war effort by peaceful demonstration and subversion. It speaks mainly to veterans, but serves as a ready reminder to civilians that soldiers may oppose war as stridently as any civilian, and at greater personal peril.
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| L.A. WeeklyChuck WilsonZeiger's superb documentary about the Vietnam War era's GI protest movement is jammed with incident and anecdote and moves with nearly as much breathless momentum as the movement itself. |
| Groucho ReviewsPeter CanaveseOffers nothing in the way of balancing the protest viewpoint...[but] still usefully revisits--during our current unpopular war--the internal conflict of America during the Vietnam War. |
| Chicago TribuneMichael PhillipsSir! No Sir! honors those who fought, then questioned the morality of that fight, then joined the national protest. |
| rec.arts.movies.reviewsLouis ProyectIlluminates the past while providing lessons for today's peace movement. An outstanding documentary. |
| Salt Lake TribuneSean P. MeansZeiger presents a trippy alternative history that prompts questions about what today's troops in Iraq might be thinking. |
| Boston GlobeWesley MorrisZeiger's movie is a timely salute to the risky and brave men and women who had the temerity not only to think for themselves but to speak their minds. |
| Creative LoafingMatt BrunsonBecause there's a contemporary vibe to David Zeiger's informative Vietnam War documentary, the film is able to exist on two separate (if unavoidably linked) plateaus. |
| Philadelphia InquirerSteven ReaShines a light on a forgotten corner of the antiwar movement: the men (and a few women) who returned from their tours of duty filled with doubt and disillusionment over what they saw, and did, there. |
| Arizona Daily StarPhil VillarrealRecaptures the Vietnam era's revolutionary zeitgeist. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranA powerful documentary that uncovers half-forgotten history, history that is still relevant but not in ways you might be expecting. |