The Camden 28 (film)
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The Camden 28 is a 2007 documentary film
about twenty-eight members of the "Catholic Left" who were arrested in 1971 for attempting to break into and vandalize a draft board in Camden, New Jersey. Because the Camden 28 were not militant and did not plant bombs like the Weathermen
, they provided a much greater threat to the U.S. government - the growing religious opposition to the Vietnam war
could not be written off as extremist, so they had to be brought down.
The Camden 28 was written, directed, and produced by Anthony Giacchino. In 2007, it was aired as part of PBS
's Point of View
series. The film was met with high critical praise and received an 88% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes
and a WGA
Award nomination for Best Documentary Screenplay.
Documentary film
Documentary films constitute a broad category of nonfictional motion pictures intended to document some aspect of reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction or maintaining a historical record...
about twenty-eight members of the "Catholic Left" who were arrested in 1971 for attempting to break into and vandalize a draft board in Camden, New Jersey. Because the Camden 28 were not militant and did not plant bombs like the Weathermen
Weatherman (organization)
Weatherman, known colloquially as the Weathermen and later the Weather Underground Organization , was an American radical left organization. It originated in 1969 as a faction of Students for a Democratic Society composed for the most part of the national office leadership of SDS and their...
, they provided a much greater threat to the U.S. government - the growing religious opposition to the Vietnam war
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War was a Cold War-era military conflict that occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia from 1 November 1955 to the fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. This war followed the First Indochina War and was fought between North Vietnam, supported by its communist allies, and the government of...
could not be written off as extremist, so they had to be brought down.
The Camden 28 was written, directed, and produced by Anthony Giacchino. In 2007, it was aired as part of PBS
Public Broadcasting Service
The Public Broadcasting Service is an American non-profit public broadcasting television network with 354 member TV stations in the United States which hold collective ownership. Its headquarters is in Arlington, Virginia....
's Point of View
P.O.V.
POV is a Public Broadcasting Service Public television series which features independent nonfiction films. POV is a cinema term for "point of view"....
series. The film was met with high critical praise and received an 88% "Fresh" rating on Rotten Tomatoes
Rotten Tomatoes
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and a WGA
Writers Guild of America
The Writers Guild of America is a generic term referring to the joint efforts of two different US labor unions:* The Writers Guild of America, East , representing TV and film writers East of the Mississippi....
Award nomination for Best Documentary Screenplay.
External links
- Official Site
- The Camden 28 on Rotten Tomatoes
- P.O.V. The Camden 28 - PBS's site dedicated to the film