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  • Director: Barry Alexander Brown
  • AMG Rating: starstarstar
  • Genre: History
  • Movie Type: Social History, Military & War
  • Themes: Political Unrest
  • Release Year: 1979
  • Country: US
  • Run Time: 100 minutes

Plot

An acclaimed documentary, The War at Home reveals what happened in Madison, Wisconsin during most of the 1960s and the early '70s when students and the community began to protest the Vietnam War. Directors Glenn Silber and Barry Alexander Brown spent a long time going through the news archives of a local television station to cull footage from those years. Then they selected specific clips and first put together a background on the war. Quotes from John F. Kennedy to Richard Nixon and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, along with many other public figures vividly bring back the past. Next, the events at Madison are brought forward and local public figures speak memorable lines. Demonstrations are shown, as well as news events, like the man, now in jail, who bombed an Army information center on campus and killed a student. Emotion and drama run high throughout, making this a worthy documentary for anyone who either has forgotten or never knew what those days were like. This documentary won a Special Jury Prize at the now defunct U.S. Film Festival and was nominated for "Best Documentary" at the 1979 Academy Awards. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

Cast

Karleton Armstrong

Credit

Barry Alexander Brown - Director, Chuck France - Editor, Barry Alexander Brown - Producer, Glenn Silber - Producer

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The War at Home
Directed by Glenn Silber
Produced by Barry Alexander Brown and Glenn Silber
Release date(s) 1979
Running time 100 min.
Country U.S.A.
Language English

The War at Home was a documentary film about the anti-war movement in the Madison, Wisconsin, area during the Vietnam War. It combines archival footage and interviews with the participants to explore the events of the period on around the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus. While the film is focused on events in Madison, it acts as a microcosm of the larger movement.

Among the major events included is the Sterling Hall bombing. The bombing, intended to destroy the Army Math Research Center in the building, caused massive destruction to other parts of the building as well. It resulted in the death of the researcher Robert Fassnacht and significant destruction to the physics department and its experiments. Neither Fassnacht nor the physics department were involved with or employed by the Army Math Research Center.

It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. [1]

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Cultural influence

Dialogue from the film was used as samples in the song Thieves by the band Ministry on the album The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste.

See also

References

  1. ^ "NY Times: The War at Home". NY Times. http://movies.nytimes.com/movie/52754/The-War-at-Home/details. Retrieved 2008-11-16. 

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