Though the filmmaking is pedestrian, The Camden 28's timeless truths come through with resounding power.
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07/26/07
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
[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
If anything it also shows that dissent is a far gone notion in our modern society...
09/14/07
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 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
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
Until a worthwhile dramatized version of the Camden 28 comes along, this dutiful documentary will suffice.
07/30/07
Celebrates a duty to responsibility, even if the duty defies the federal law.
07/21/07
a dully presented piece of cinema about a truly worthy group of subjects.
07/26/07
An amazing story. A genuine saga of life and death, friendship and betrayal, religion and war. The tale of ordinary people willing to risk their freedoms for their truths.
07/05/07
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
But the editing supplies some urgency, and the subjects remain radiant yet down-to-earth -- too good-humored to be beatific.
07/23/07
Top CriticTheir story is inspiring and, all these years later, relevant.
07/27/07
Concise, inventive and unabashedly partisan, The Camden 28 is a small movie that contains multitudes.
07/27/07
The moments never add up to a movie.
07/27/07
Top CriticThe Camden 28 not only examines the animating forces of protest, but also the nature of betrayal, forgiveness and, ultimately, compassion.
07/26/07
Top CriticSuperlative 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
A vivid and impassioned chronicle of unwavering moral courage under extreme duress.
07/27/07
Not exactly blazing cinema, but intellectually riveting.
08/02/07
Top CriticAnthony Giacchino uncovers a gripping lost chapter in the history of human rights activism with The Camden 28.
07/21/07
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