Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

Name: Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
Genre: Documentary
Released: July 23, 2004
Duration: 78 min
Rating: 65

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Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train

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First Run Features | Release Date: July 23, 2004

Summary: This film documents the life and times of Howard Zinn, the historian, activist and author of the best selling classic A People's History of the United States. (First Run Features)

Director: Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller

Genre(s): Documentary

Runtime: 78 min

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David Sterritt

Thoughtful, exciting, moving. Read full review

Steven Rea

A thinker and an educator, Zinn has led a life of commitment and compassion, and the film offers a loving tribute. Read full review

Wesley Morris

The ideas are generous and inclusive rather than divisive: Zinn wants history to be seen and to be experienced from every possible perspective. Read full review

Kevin Crust

The film is especially strong in its second half, which is dominated by contemporary footage of Zinn. Read full review

TV Guide Magazine Ken Fox

It's an excellent introduction to a man whose thoughts on war, peace and dissent have become increasingly influential in ever more confusing times. Read full review

Ernest Hardy

This illuminating, often rousing film fits snugly alongside the various anti-Bush/corporate/globalization documentaries that continue to pack the art houses. Read full review

Frank Scheck

This documentary about Howard Zinn provides an effective if not necessarily comprehensive or objective portrait of the esteemed historian and activist. Read full review

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ShannonP.

Feb 27, 2007

Whatever Zinn's contribution may (or may not) be, this film is like Tiger Beat for the PBS crowd. It isn't much more than an oppotunity for collective gushing about a man whose ideas are presented in only the most cursory and superfical way. For that matter, Zinn can hardly lay Whatever Zinn's contribution may (or may not) be, this film is like Tiger Beat for the PBS crowd. It isn't much more than an oppotunity for collective gushing about a man whose ideas are presented in only the most cursory and superfical way. For that matter, Zinn can hardly lay claim to the ideas that war is bad, that traditional "history" is often one-sided and misleading, and that the government cannot be trusted--although amazingly the film suggests otherwise. What are his original ideas? If they exist, you won't find them here. Nor does this "documentary" present a trace of serious criticism about Zinn's life or work. Ultimatley, it is trite propaganda about a man who purports to be fighting, among other things, exactly that!… Expand

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