Camden 28 (2006)
Average Rating: 7.3/10
Reviews Counted: 28
Fresh: 25 | Rotten: 3
Despite the fact the events chronicled in The Camden 28 occurred 30 years ago, this poignant and compassionate doc about Vietnam protesters is both powerful and timely.
Average Rating: 6.9/10
Critic Reviews: 11
Fresh: 9 | Rotten: 2
Despite the fact the events chronicled in The Camden 28 occurred 30 years ago, this poignant and compassionate doc about Vietnam protesters is both powerful and timely.
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Filmmaker Anthony Giacchino explores the remarkable story of 28 anti-war activists who protested the Vietnam War by conspiring to break into a draft-board office in Camden, NJ, and destroy government draft records identifying young men available for military service. On Sunday, August 22, 1971, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and Attorney General John Mitchell announced that 20 anti-war activists had been arrested in and around a Camden draft-board office. Just five days later, the indictment of
Jul 27, 2007 Wide
Sep 18, 2007
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Director Anthony Giacchino doesn't always relate the tale in the clearest fashion, but his sometimes overly emotional approach... doesn't detract from its essential fascination.
Top CriticNot exactly blazing cinema, but intellectually riveting.
The moments never add up to a movie.
Their story is inspiring and, all these years later, relevant.
Concise, inventive and unabashedly partisan, The Camden 28 is a small movie that contains multitudes.
The Camden 28 not only examines the animating forces of protest, but also the nature of betrayal, forgiveness and, ultimately, compassion.
In revisiting the oppressive measures employed by the FBI during that era, the viewer is treated to a welcome message about the right, if not the duty, to challenge authority, especially in the face of corruption, intransigence and utter arrogance."
If anything it also shows that dissent is a far gone notion in our modern society...
Until a worthwhile dramatized version of the Camden 28 comes along, this dutiful documentary will suffice.
When it comes to political agitation, the Camden 28 are genuine heroes and deserve to be recognized for what they dared to achieve.
Times have changed, but many of the questions remain the same: How far would you go to stop a war you felt was unjust? Would you break the law if you felt that law to be by nature unlawful?
A vivid and impassioned chronicle of unwavering moral courage under extreme duress.
[Giacchino's] sympathy for his subjects, their cause and the tradition of Christian pacifism is evident yet doesn't cloud the storytelling as he defies viewers not to stand in admiration and ask tough questions of themselves.
a dully presented piece of cinema about a truly worthy group of subjects.
Though the filmmaking is pedestrian, The Camden 28's timeless truths come through with resounding power.
In revisiting the oppressive measures employed by the FBI during that era, the viewer is treated to a welcome message about the right, if not the duty, to challenge authority, especially in the face of corruption, intransigence and utter arrogance.
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[font=Century Gothic]Note to the film's director: Sorry I couldn't stay after the show but I really did have to run.[/font]