Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6947 in Movie
• Released on: 2008-06-20
• Running time: 84 minutes

Customer Reviews

A critically important corrective to official history...
Even I who lived through this horrendous period didn't realize the extent of defection in all branches of the military.

Nice also a brief debunking of the myth of the spat-upon soldier.

This documentary is riveting and a must-see!

Living is Easy with Eyes Closed
One of the finest documentaries available on our invasion of Vietnam, a perfect bookend to the classic "Hearts and Minds." It drives home a truth that so many Americans refuse to believe, to this day, which is that it wasn't dozens or hundreds of GI's that refused to fight, but thousands - including, by the Pentagon's own reports, over 64,000 cases of outright desertion.

It also reinforces the fact that those of us who protested and organized here in the States were never, ever against the soldiers. We absolutely and actively supported the troops, we knew of the organizing within the military that the film describes, and we tried to raise funds to help them. We were instead against the generals and the government and the corporate war machine - that monolith which President Eisenhower described as the Military Industrial Complex - as he was warning us against them in his last days in office.

I remember as a young man that my friends and I thought we were so noble and courageous in protesting the war... but the REAL HEROES of Vietnam were the men and women who refused to fight, and who stood up against the literal threat of a death penalty.

As many have mentioned, every American should have the opportunity to see this film. It unfortunately resonates like a bell. Perhaps a perfect gift for the Iraq - bound GI in your family, and I say that with profound respect.

Goebbels would be proud!
I recently had a chance to review this movie with a number of Vietnam War vets and found it to be an excellent example of revisionist history. Most of the information presented was correct and factual; however, the anti-war movement was never as extensive as it is portrayed in the movie. Especially the behavior of the American military. The Army was never at a point of mutiny the way it was protrayed in the movie. The truth is we pulled out of Vietnam because it was perceived as a losing war, not because of any perception of the war being unjust. Anti-communist feelings were strong up until the early eighties, when it was replaced by fear of radical Islamic fundamentalists. I grew up during these times and the anti-war movement was never as extensive as the movie makes it out to be.