Sir! No Sir!

I thought that I was aware during the 60's and 70's regarding the War in Vietnam. Clearly I was not. I completely missed this exceedingly important part of the protests of U.S. involvement in Southeast Asia. I had thought that... Full review

I thought I knew a lot about the Vietnam War protest movement, but obviously, not enough.I knew some soldiers had thrown their medals on the congressional steps and gone to peace marches, but not that thousands of American soldiers were... Full review

Did any of you see this film? It was moving and spectacular. How can you compare it to a Michael Moore film? It is all about veterans and contains countless interviews with veterans and is an accurate portrayal of veterans... Full review

This was a rather thinly veiled (Ok, OBVIOUS!) propaganda film brought to you by the Hollywood political left and little known (you'll understand why) David Zeiger.Just when you thought Michael Moore couldn't be topped for sheer lunacy, along comes this... Full review

"... to your country!" With these words I shook hands with Jane Fonda at the Atlanta showing one recent Friday night. Attendance was excellent, the audience was mostly older but there was a smattering of very young - some of... Full review

By 1968 the civilian anti-Vietnam war movement was beginning to expand, young men were escaping to Canada to avoid the draft, and former combatants were starting to protest the war. Like most Americans, I had no idea that at the... Full review

I sat in my college dorm room in 1972, after student deferments had been discontinued under political pressure, and I watched TV with my roommates as the man pulled birthdays out of a bowl in order to put them in... Full review

i had the opportunity to see this film in advance to write a term paper, it uses good evidence and is well done. if you want further information look up "Soldiers in Revolt" by David Courtright from Haymarket Books, and... Full review

Sir! No Sir! (2005) written and directed by David Zeiger is the "must-see" documentary of 2005. The film tells the story of the GI resistance movement during the Vietnam war.I'm a Vietnam-era veteran, and I was peripherally involved in the... Full review

David Zeiger's film is straightforward in terms of technique. It's appropriate: The director spent part of the Vietnam War era in and around an off-base coffeehouse in Killeen, Texas, near Ft. ... Full Review

Other right and costly things featured in Sir! Folks back home also felt responsibilities, including Jane Fonda, who appears here in archival footage as well as in her very fine home (a marked contrast with the meager surroundings of the vets), speaks not as Hanoi Jane, but as a welcome celebrity contributor to a movement. ... Full Review

It is easy, and convenient, to think of soldiers who refuse orders or who quit as cowards or disloyal, or, in the case of Vietnam, evidence of the moral corruption of the counter culture, but Sir! Most profoundly, and as its tagline, If you ever wanted to end a war ... ... Full Review

Even without such between-the-lines comparisons, the film is sobering.....On occasion, Zeiger is forced to use footage from other, better films, most notably the powerful documentary....it could help paint a picture of the problems those against the war had to face every day.....is a film so desperate to present its side of things....This is not to criticize Fonda herself.... ... Full Review

We see old footage of such organized demonstrations and, frankly, they are good to see..... ... Full Review

ESCONDIDO ---- The distribution center for the North County Food Bank will be open from 6-8 p.m.Saturdays at Grove Park, corner of Mission Avenue and Ash Street. ... Full Article

One of the least-told stories of the Vietnam War is that of the antiwar struggle within the American military.The current presumption is that war protests started on college campuses, but they were actually sparked by the soldiers themselves. ... Full Article

Sir!No Sir!uncovers a national chain of GI coffeehouses near military bases where soldiers and marines could read alternative weeklies, listen to protest music, and chat about the lousy war under posters of Che Guevara and Huey Newton. ... Full Article

"Sir! No Sir!," the title of David Zeiger's documentary about resistance to the Vietnam War from within the armed forces, comes without what schoolchildren used to be taught to call a vocative comma after "No." Perhaps this is another gesture ... Full Article

Sir!No Sir! never mentions the words Iraq or Afghanistan .It doesn't have to. Unseen and unremarked upon, those bloody venues nonetheless inhabit the entire 85 minutes of David Zeiger's impassioned documentary like some deadly, creeping virus for which... ... Full Article

espite avoiding any mention of Iraq, Sir!No Sir!nonetheless derives its contemporary relevance from its Vietnam subject's parallels to America's ongoing Middle East exploits. ... Full Article