Sir! No Sir!
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Promotional movie poster for the film
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| Directed by | David Zeiger |
| Produced by | Evangeline Griego Aaron Zarrow |
| Written by | David Zeiger |
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Donald Sutherland Jane Fonda Greg Payton Dave Cline Keith Mather Dr. Howard Levy Susan Schnall Terry Whitmore |
| Narrated by | Troy Garity |
| Music by | Buddy Judge |
| Cinematography | May Rigler David Zeiger |
| Edited by | Lindsay Mofford May Rigler |
| Distributed by | Balcony Releasing |
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85 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
Sir! No Sir! is a 2005 documentary by Displaced Films about the anti-war movement within the ranks of the United States Armed Forces during the Vietnam War. The film was produced, directed, and written by David Zeiger. The film had a theatrical run in 80 cities throughout the U.S. and Canada in 2006, and was broadcast worldwide on: Sundance Channel, Discovery Channel, BBC, ARTE France, ABC Australia, SBC Spain, ZDF Germany, YLE Finland, RT, and several others.
Sir No Sir! tells for the first time on film the story of the 1960s GI movement against the war in Vietnam. The film explores the profound impact that the movement had on the war and investigates the way in which the GI Movement has been erased from public memory.
In the 1960’s an anti-war movement emerged that altered the course of history. This movement didn’t take place on college campuses, but in barracks and on aircraft carriers. It flourished in army stockades, navy brigs and in the dingy towns that surround military bases. It penetrated elite military colleges like West Point. And it spread throughout the battlefields of Vietnam. It was a movement no one expected, least of all those in it. Hundreds went to prison and thousands into exile. And by 1971 it had, in the words of one colonel, infested the entire armed services. Yet today few people know about the GI Movement against the war in Vietnam.
The review in the Boston Globe notes,
A Navy nurse was arrested after she flew a plane over military bases in San Francisco that dropped antiwar leaflets, two black soldiers were given eight to 10 years for attempting to organize a discussion group that asked whether black soldiers should be participating in the war, and hundreds of other soldiers were jailed for any number of reasons. Decades later, the veterans Zeiger talks to still seem completely astonished, shell-shocked as it were, by both the confusing scope of the war itself and by their ability to resist it.
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