An aimless pastiche of archival footage and current interviews of former Vietnam vets court-martialed and jailed for their anti-war activities.

| Mar 1, 2007

The power Sir! No Sir! has as a film overrides any problems it presents.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Dec 16, 2006

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.

| Dec 15, 2006

I expected to emerge depressed by how long these stories have gone untold, but the speakers' courage and humanity are a shot in the arm.

| Dec 15, 2006

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.

Full Review | Nov 11, 2006

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.

Full Review | Sep 2, 2006

Zeiger makes good use of archival footage, photos and sound bites from the period. And the frankness of his interview subjects is refreshing.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jul 1, 2006

Zeiger presents a trippy alternative history that prompts questions about what today's troops in Iraq might be thinking.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 30, 2006

Whatever political side you're on, you owe it to yourself to see Sir! No Sir!

| Jun 24, 2006

Zeiger has rallied remarkable faces and voices.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 16, 2006

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 16, 2006

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.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 14, 2006

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.

Full Review | Original Score: 3.5/4 | Jun 9, 2006

About an almost-forgotten fact of the Vietnam era: Anti-war sentiment among U.S. troops grew into a problem for the Pentagon.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 9, 2006

Honors those who fought, then questioned the morality of that fight, then joined the national protest.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 8, 2006

An invigorating, compelling tribute to men and women who exhibited real courage and commitment on a different kind of battlefield.

| Original Score: B | Jun 1, 2006

Recaptures the Vietnam era's revolutionary zeitgeist.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Jun 1, 2006

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.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 27, 2006

Have you heard about the thousands of GI's who refused to go on any more combat missions because they believed the war was wrong? 'Sir, may we have an explanation of why we're fighting, sir?'

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | May 26, 2006

In seeking to express its outrage over the Vietnam War, Sir! No Sir! loses its moral compass, conflating dissidence and traitorousness, and confusing friends with the enemies of their enemies.

| Original Score: 2/5 | May 20, 2006