Sir! No Sir! (2005)
Average Rating: 7.1/10
Reviews Counted: 53
Fresh: 47 | Rotten: 6
A powerful reflection on a pivotal era, from a viewpoint seldom visited, this documentary hits home, especially with its relevance to current events.
Average Rating: 7.5/10
Critic Reviews: 19
Fresh: 18 | Rotten: 1
A powerful reflection on a pivotal era, from a viewpoint seldom visited, this documentary hits home, especially with its relevance to current events.
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The little-known protest of the Vietnam War staged from within the ranks of the military is explored in director David Zeiger's revealing documentary. Despite the well-documented media coverage of Vietnam War protests that took place on college campuses across the nation, few people but the most ardent history buffs remain aware of the massive protests that flourished in U.S. barracks and military bases at home and abroad. Staged by countless military men disillusioned with the ongoing war,
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We haven't got space to do justice to David Zeiger's important historical documentary Sir! No Sir! but suffice it to say that it will change your understanding of the Vietnam era, even if you were alive then.
Top CriticI expected to emerge depressed by how long these stories have gone untold, but the speakers' courage and humanity are a shot in the arm.
Zeiger's movie is a timely salute to the risky and brave men and women who had the temerity not only to think for themselves but to speak their minds.
Shines a light on a forgotten corner of the antiwar movement: the men (and a few women) who returned from their tours of duty filled with doubt and disillusionment over what they saw, and did, there.
About an almost-forgotten fact of the Vietnam era: Anti-war sentiment among U.S. troops grew into a problem for the Pentagon.
Honors those who fought, then questioned the morality of that fight, then joined the national protest.
An aimless pastiche of archival footage and current interviews of former Vietnam vets court-martialed and jailed for their anti-war activities.
The power Sir! No Sir! has as a film overrides any problems it presents.
David Zeiger's documentary feature Sir! No Sir! might be described as a therapeutic film, since it seeks to cure some small part of America's amnesia.
Not only a fascinating illumination of a blotted-out part of the counter-cultural, popular-protest '60s, but a timely questioning of patriotism and duty in the midst of an increasingly unjustifiable war.
Zeiger makes good use of archival footage, photos and sound bites from the period. And the frankness of his interview subjects is refreshing.
Zeiger presents a trippy alternative history that prompts questions about what today's troops in Iraq might be thinking.
Whatever political side you're on, you owe it to yourself to see Sir! No Sir!
Zeiger has rallied remarkable faces and voices.
Because there's a contemporary vibe to David Zeiger's informative Vietnam War documentary, the film is able to exist on two separate (if unavoidably linked) plateaus.
An invigorating, compelling tribute to men and women who exhibited real courage and commitment on a different kind of battlefield.
Recaptures the Vietnam era's revolutionary zeitgeist.
While a great number of former servicemen are interviewed for the film, their largely one-on-one recollections and testimonies are greatly magnified by the massive amount of archival visual footage presented here.
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