Not exactly blazing cinema, but intellectually riveting.
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08/02/07
The Camden 28 (2007)
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Reviews Counted:26
Fresh:23
Rotten:3
Average Rating:7.2/10
Consensus: 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.
Theatrical Release:Jul 27, 2007 Limited
Synopsis: Anthony Giacchino's suspenseful, tautly constructed documentary THE CAMDEN 28 recounts one of the 20th Century's most fascinating trials. In 1971, a group of Camden, New Jersey, residents who... [More]
Director: Anthony Giacchino
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Reviews for The Camden 28
Top CriticBut the editing supplies some urgency, and the subjects remain radiant yet down-to-earth -- too good-humored to be beatific.
07/23/07
Top CriticAnthony Giacchino uncovers a gripping lost chapter in the history of human rights activism with The Camden 28.
07/21/07
Until a worthwhile dramatized version of the Camden 28 comes along, this dutiful documentary will suffice.
07/30/07
If anything it also shows that dissent is a far gone notion in our modern society...
09/14/07
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.
08/11/07
A documentary about a watershed trial in 1973 of some anti-war activists from the Catholic Left who took a stand on the basis of conscience.
07/24/07
The Camden 28 not only examines the animating forces of protest, but also the nature of betrayal, forgiveness and, ultimately, compassion.
07/26/07
Top CriticGiacchino has created a film in which every practical question has ethical implications...The Camden 28 opens our thinking to the values and calculations which guided these noble activists and their equally noble attorneys.
07/23/07
While no one will mistake director Anthony Giacchino for Michael Moore, the documentarian unfolds the drama of the arrest and eventual not guilty verdict of 28 Vietnam War protesters in 1971.
07/24/07
[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.
07/27/07
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.
07/24/07
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?
07/27/07
Superlative documentary about 28 members of the Catholic left who defied the war machine in 1971--with plenty of relevance to the contemporary struggle to end the war in Iraq.
07/12/07
With a brisk narrative that blends intrigue, tension, pathos and humor, Anthony Giacchino’s absorbing look back at a New Jersey antiwar group’s early-’70s arrest and trial is closer to living history than dry, academic harangue.
07/26/07
Concise, inventive and unabashedly partisan, The Camden 28 is a small movie that contains multitudes.
07/27/07
Celebrates a duty to responsibility, even if the duty defies the federal law.
07/21/07
Fond, stinging, and finally instructive, the film assembles a comprehensive look back at the actions, arrest, and prosecution of a group of political malcontents (most of them young Catholics and some of them priests) in the summer of 1971.
07/24/07
Top CriticThough the filmmaking is pedestrian, The Camden 28's timeless truths come through with resounding power.
07/26/07
When it comes to political agitation, the Camden 28 are genuine heroes and deserve to be recognized for what they dared to achieve.
07/29/07
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