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7.7/10   93 votes
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Release Date:
December 1979 (USA) more
Plot:
Interviews with people involved with and leading the Madison, Wisconsin area resistance to the Vietnam war. | add synopsis
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Nominated for Oscar. more
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Best "feel like you're there" Sixties movie more (6 total)

Cast

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Karleton Armstrong ... Himself (anti-war activist, convicted bomber)
Betty Boardman ... Herself (Quaker peace activist) (also archive footage)
Allen Ginsberg ... Himself (activist)
Henry Haslach ... Himself (student activist) (also archive footage)
Gaylord Nelson ... Himself (US Senator) (also archive footage)
Wahid Rashad ... Himself (student activist) (also archive footage)
Jim Rowen ... Himself (student activist, assistant to Mayor Soglin) (also archive footage)
Paul Soglin ... Himself (student activist, mayor of Madison) (also archive footage)
Evan Stark ... Himself (student activist) (also archive footage)
Jack von Mettenheim ... Himself (businessman, anti-Hitler student activist)
H. Edwin Young ... Himself (president, Univ. of Wisconsin) (also archive footage)
Maurice Zeitlin ... Himself (professor, Univ. of Wisconsin) (also archive footage)
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100 min
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Best "feel like you're there" Sixties movie, 14 March 2003
10/10
Author: pery-1 from California

I saw this many years ago, but remember it as the best movie to really recreate the feeling of being in the 1960/70's. The government repression, the anger, fear and paranoia are all there. Enough to cause unsettled sleep for 3 nights. I wasn't at Madison, but a much quieter campus, and the experience was the same all over the country. For comparison, I found "Berkeley in the Sisties" to be very boring.

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