Sir! No Sir!

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

Winner of the documentary audience award at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival and a Spirit Award nominee, "Sir! Duncan loved being a Green Beret but came to feel that ... Full Review

The severe nature of the penalty is testimony to why this film is so potentially harmful to the current occupation of Iraq; it threatens to enable soldiers to fight the war from within. This story of the rebellion of thousands of American soldiers against the war in Viet Nam remained lost for years in the annals of the FBI. ... Full Review

The film claims bombing was used toward the end of the war because the military leadership wondered, frankly, if some of their ground troops would obey orders to attack. The story persists, and true or false is part of a general eagerness to blame our loss in Vietnam to domestic protesters, while ignoring the substantial anti-war sentiment among troops in the field. ... Full Review

Zeiger dropped out of college to fight the war, organized demonstrations and, years later, took issue with the notion that antiwar activists spat on returning soldiers and called them "baby killers. examines the many fronts of the antiwar movement: marches, the underground press, coffeehouses such as the Oleo Strut in Killeen, Texas, and a Free (or harsher four-letter word) the Army Tour, a variety show organized by Jane Fonda and others. ... Full Review

Through eloquent interviews from a variety of angles comes the true story of a G.I. movement that built itself up from a few to literally thousands, as more became convinced that they were killing for the wrong reasons. unfortunately falls into the repetitive pasting together of narration, and the historical footage that backs it up, as any film made about a previous era is forced to do. ... Full Review