The Boys Who Said NO! (film)
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The Boys Who Said NO! is a 2020 documentary film about the draft resistance movement in the United States during the Vietnam War, the largest refusal to fight a war in American history.
The film features young men who publicly refused to be drafted to fight in Vietnam, risking up to 5 years in federal prison, as a means of opposing a war they believed was unnecessary and unjust. Among those was World heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, who refused to be drafted and risked his boxing career. The film also includes women and men who supported the draft resistance movement, including folksinger Joan Baez who married resister David Harris, Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, and baby doctor Benjamin Spock.
The film illustrates how the draft resistance movement was influenced by the Civil Rights Movement and its nonviolent tactics to oppose the war.
The film was initiated and produced by Christopher Colorado Jones and Bill Prince. The film is directed by Judith Ehrlich, Oscar-nominated for the film The Most Dangerous Man in America.
The Boys Who Said NO! premiered at the Melbourne International Documentary Film Festival in July 2020, and will be featured in US film festivals starting in October 2020.
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