Displaced Films

Sir! No sir! : a David Zeiger film( Visual )

1 edition published in 2006 in English and held by 592 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In archival footage and interviews, this film tells the story of an almost forgotten fact of the Vietnam era: the war's most crucial naysayers were soldiers--in the barracks and on the front lines--the GI anti-war movement. Beginning with acts of conscience by individuals, dissatisfaction escalated with the number of conscripts. Courts-martial, destroyed careers, imprisonment in military stockades or federal penitentiaries and desertions were common. There were also pirate radio stations, underground newspapers, a modern "underground railway" that helped soldiers desert and move to Canada, coffeehouses near U.S. bases where opinions shaped and altered by first-hand experiences were shared, and groups organized around every imaginable axis, which led to anti-war sentiment among U.S. troops being recognized at the highest levels in the Pentagon. On one level, this film is a corrective to the rah-rah rhetoric about Vietnam pushed by the right wing, while undermining the popular fiction that opposition to the war came strictly from outside the military, and reversing the 20 year process of erasing the GI Movement from the collective memory of the nation and the world

Sir! No sir! by David Zeiger( Visual )

14 editions published between 2005 and 2014 in English and held by 508 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Sir! No Sir!, is a documentary on the all-but-forgotten antiwar activities of GIs from Fort Hood to Saigon. The GI Movement, as it was then known, was composed of both vets recently returned from Vietnam and active-duty soldiers. They fought for peace in ways big and small, from organizing leading anti-war organizations to wearing peace signs instead of dog tags. By the early '70s, opposition to the Vietnam War within the military and amongst veterans had grown so widespread that no one could credibly claim that opposing the war meant opposing the troops. Veterans wanted an end to the war; their brothers in Vietnam agreed. David Zeiger's film is a remarkable interweaving of vets' stories about their intensifying resistance to the war, starting with the lone objectors of the late '60s and culminating with open disobedience throughout the ranks in the '70s. One vet even recalls an episode from 1972 in which Military Police joined enlisted men in burning an effigy of their commanding officer. The images that accompany such stories are just as powerful. As a young doctor is escorted into a military court for refusing to train GIs, hundreds of enlisted men lean out of nearby windows extending peace signs in support. It's an image that the Army didn't want the American people to see then, and probably wouldn't want the American people to see today

FTA( Visual )

5 editions published between 1972 and 2009 in English and held by 130 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Captures the entertaining magic and mayhem of the anti-war and pro-labor show as it rallies and rouses dissident GIs stationed along the Pacific Rim. A gritty mix of rollicking performances and GI interviews, FTA (i.e. Free the Army) juxtaposes lighthearted political satire with the somber realities of war, occupation, and the absurdities of military life

Displaced in the new South( Visual )

2 editions published in 1995 in English and held by 51 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

In the 1980's, over 200,000 Latino and Asian immigrants came to Atlanta and north Georgia. Describes their difficulties and also their successes in establishing themselves in a different culture

Senior year( Visual )

2 editions published in 2002 in English and held by 24 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

"Follows the journey of 15 kids in the class of 2000 as they navigate through their last year of high school"--Container

Funny old guys( Visual )

2 editions published between 2000 and 2003 in English and held by 13 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The film follows Frank Tarloff and a group of his friends over the course of a year, during which Frank learns that he has terminal cancer. The group consists of former writers, comedians and producers, all retired from the television industry. They meet for lunch every Tuesday to reminisce, discuss TV and film, compare their medical conditions, and enjoy each other's company. Frank decides that by facing death squarely and by discussing it with his characteristic humor, he can help his friends face death when their own times come

A night of ferocious joy : Artspeaks! not in our name( Visual )

1 edition published in 2004 in English and held by 9 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Film of the concert: "Artspeaks! Not in Our Name" produced by the Artists Network of Refuse & Resist as an act of protest against America's war on terrorism. Features performances and conversations by visual artists and musicians in one of the first anti-war concerts of the new millennium

This is where we take our stand : the Iraq veterans against the war who risked everything to tell their story( Visual )

1 edition published in 2011 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

" ... the story of hundreds of veterans who risked everything to publicly tell their accounts of the horrors they witnessed in Iraq and Afghanistan. In March of 2008, two hundred and fifty veterans and active-duty soldiers marked the fifth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq by gathering in Washington, DC, to testify from their own experience about the nature of the occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq."--Film website

Sweet old world( Visual )

1 edition published in 2014 in English and held by 4 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

The relationship between Brian and his teenage son Ethan has grown cold and strained in the years since Ethan's brother Michael was killed in an accident, and now they find themselves on the brink of disaster when Michael's best friend Jimmie returns. Jimmie's a wild kid who may or may not have been responsible for Michael₂s death, and when he befriends Ethan it sends both father and son down a dangerous road

The band( Visual )

1 edition published in 2008 in English and held by 3 WorldCat member libraries worldwide

Presents a heartwarming story of a year spent with the Decatur High marching band. Focuses on a family confronted with divorce and death and a father's intimate relationship with his son as he watches him grow from a child into a young adult