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

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

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

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

Hawks and doves alike should be grateful to Zeiger for preserving a fascinating piece of American cultural history that the vets recount here.

| May 18, 2006

It's an invaluable record of what some soldiers felt about the war they fought and what some soldiers did about it when they returned home.

Full Review | Original Score: B- | May 11, 2006

Sir! No Sir! movingly captures the raw excitement of grunts discovering their power and their voices in their ability to resist.

| Original Score: B | May 6, 2006

A powerful documentary that uncovers half-forgotten history, history that is still relevant but not in ways you might be expecting.

| Original Score: 4/5 | May 5, 2006

... an unexpected gem ...

| Apr 28, 2006

This is powerful stuff, offering us not only a new look at the past, but to the unavoidably relevant insights into the present.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 21, 2006

In his smart, timely documentary, David Zeiger remembers that war and the veterans whose struggles against it are too often forgotten.

Full Review | Original Score: 4/5 | Apr 19, 2006

Sir! No Sir! so vividly evokes the rage, passion and provocation of the era it chronicles that it feels up-to-the-minute.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 19, 2006

If there was such a widespread antiwar movement within the military, why did the war drag on so long?

Full Review | Original Score: 1.5/4 | Apr 19, 2006

As it is, this one is compelling enough, a potent mix of outrage, residual anger, and sorrow that speaks not just to the legacy of our misadventures in Vietnam, but to the entire uncertain future of a nation at war.

Full Review | Apr 18, 2006

This is an important chapter in the Vietnam library of films.

Full Review | Apr 10, 2006

The voices of the veterans alone, however, make this an important and poignant film that can speak to any generation.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Apr 7, 2006

This compelling documentary by director David Zeiger recounts what were more than half a million 'incidents of desertion' during the war, many of them acts of direct rebellion against the legitimacy of the war.

Full Review | Original Score: 3/4 | Apr 6, 2006