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Directors:
Glenn Silber
Barry Alexander Brown (co-director)
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Release Date:
December 1979 (USA) See more »
Genre:
Documentary | History | Music | War See more »
Plot:
Interviews with people involved with and leading the Madison, Wisconsin area resistance to the Vietnam war. | Add synopsis »
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Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 1 nomination See more »
NewsDesk:
(2 articles)
Hey, You Made It!
 (From Huffington Post. 29 June 2012, 2:12 PM, PDT)
Jonah Hill, Terrence Malick, Melissa McCarthy and 173 others invited to join Academy
 (From EW.com - Inside Movies. 29 June 2012, 1:30 PM, PDT)
User Reviews:
Best "feel like you're there" Sixties movie See more (6 total) »

Cast

 
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)
Spiro Agnew ... Himself - White House Conference, Beside Connally (archive footage) (uncredited)
William Bablitch ... Himself - Law Student, Observer (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Connally ... Himself - White House Conference, Beside Agnew (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ngo Dinh Diem ... Himself - with Nixon in Vietnam (archive footage) (uncredited)
John Ehrlichman ... Himself - White House Conference (archive footage) (uncredited)

Dwight D. Eisenhower ... Himself - Discusses Domino Theory (archive footage) (uncredited)
Wilbur Emory ... Himself - Madison Police Chief (archive footage) (uncredited)

Gerald Ford ... Himself - Congressman, Anti-Democrat Speech in Madison (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ernest Gruening ... Himself - Remarks on Tonkin Gulf, on Karleton Armstrong (archive footage) (uncredited)
Alexander Haig ... Himself - White House Conference (archive footage) (uncredited)
Hubert H. Humphrey ... Himself - Speech at U. of Wisconsin (archive footage) (uncredited)

Lyndon Johnson ... Himself - No Wider War Speech (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert Kastenmeier ... Himself - Congressman (archive footage) (uncredited)

John F. Kennedy ... Himself - Discusses Escalation in Vietnam (archive footage) (uncredited)
Ted Kennedy ... Himself - Tries to Give Speech at U. of Wisconsin (archive footage) (uncredited)

Martin Luther King ... Himself - Marches (archive footage) (uncredited)

Henry Kissinger ... Himself - Meets with Le Duc Tho (archive footage) (uncredited)
Warren Knowles ... Himself - Wisconsin Governor (archive footage) (uncredited)
Dick Krooth ... Himself - Law Student, Protester (archive footage) (uncredited)
Melvin Laird ... Himself - Secretary of Defense (archive footage) (uncredited)
Duc Tho Le ... Himself - Meets with Kissinger (archive footage) (uncredited)
Eugene McCarthy ... Himself - Speech in Wisconsin (archive footage) (uncredited)

George McGovern ... Himself - 1968 Democratic National Convention (archive footage) (uncredited)

Robert McNamara ... Himself - Speech on Hanoi Bombing (archive footage) (uncredited)
Charlene Mitchell ... Herself - Communist Party Candidate (archive footage) (uncredited)
Wayne Morse ... Himself - Remarks Against Eugene McCarthy (archive footage) (uncredited)

Paul Newman ... Himself - 1968 Democratic National Convention (archive footage) (uncredited)

Richard Nixon ... Himself - Gives Post-Election Plans for Vietnam (archive footage) (uncredited)
Donald O. Peterson ... Himself - Democratic National Committee (archive footage) (uncredited)
Gordon Roseleip ... Himself - Wisconsin Senator (archive footage) (uncredited)
Robert Warren ... Himself - Wisconsin Attorney General (archive footage) (uncredited)
William C. Westmoreland ... Himself - Visits U. of Wisconsin, 1959 (archive footage) (uncredited)

Directed by
Glenn Silber 
Barry Alexander Brown (co-director)
 
Produced by
Barry Alexander Brown .... producer
Glenn Silber .... producer
 
Cinematography by
Richard March 
 
Film Editing by
Chuck France 
 
Sound Department
Margaret Crimmins .... sound editor
Paul Dingman .... sound recordist
Tom Fleischman .... sound re-recording mixer
Kathleen King .... sound recordist
Susan Lazarus .... sound editor
Neal Marshad .... sound re-recordist
Tom Naunas .... sound effects
Tom Naunas .... sound recordist
Joshua Waletzky .... sound editor (as Josh Waletzky)
 
Camera and Electrical Department
Chuck France .... additional cinematography
 
Other crew
Sherman Grinberg .... archive source (as Sherman Grindberg Library)
 
Thanks
Emile de Antonio .... special thanks (as Emile De Antonio)
 

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Runtime:
100 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Black and White | Color
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
USA:Not Rated
Company:
Catalyst MediaSee more »

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Movie Connections:
Edited into American Pop (1981)See more »
Soundtrack:
I Ain't Marching AnymoreSee more »

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1 out of 2 people found the following review useful.
Best "feel like you're there" Sixties movie, 14 March 2003
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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