This Oscar winning documentary is essential viewing if you want to escape history.
From IMDB: "This film recounts the history and attitudes of the opposing sides of the Vietnam War using archival news footage as well as their own film and interviews. A key theme is how attitudes of American racism and self-righteousness militarism helped create and prolong this bloody conflict. The film also endeaveors to give voice to the Vietnamese people themselves as to how the war has affected them and their reasons why they fight the United States and other western powers while showing the basic humanity of the people that US propaganda tried to dismiss. " 2 Hrs. Download here.
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Sir! No Sir!
Very few know about the anti-war movement that took place within the U.S. armed forces.
In barracks, in army stockades and in the small towns surrounding military bases, soldiers organized in resistance to the war. From the publication of underground newspapers and demonstrations on military bases to widespread desertion, entire units refusing to go into battle, the military was brought to the brink of widespread mutiny.
"Sir, No Sir" tells the history of the GI movement through the stories of those who were part of it and with never-before-seen archival material and explores the impact it had on the military and the war itself. The film also tells the story of how and why the GI Movement has been erased from the public memory.
In barracks, in army stockades and in the small towns surrounding military bases, soldiers organized in resistance to the war. From the publication of underground newspapers and demonstrations on military bases to widespread desertion, entire units refusing to go into battle, the military was brought to the brink of widespread mutiny.
"Sir, No Sir" tells the history of the GI movement through the stories of those who were part of it and with never-before-seen archival material and explores the impact it had on the military and the war itself. The film also tells the story of how and why the GI Movement has been erased from the public memory.
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