Prison, boycotts, rock ’n’ roll, hard labor, propaganda leaflets dropped from airplanes onto wide-open army bases, mutiny, riots, underground newspapers, coffeehouses, concerts, and demonstrations, small and big gestures of defiance filled with dignity—all this and more you will see in Sir! No Sir!, an incredible, almost forgotten history of the thousands upon thousands of GIs who actively resisted the Vietnam War. For them, defiance was more than a First Amendment issue—it was life or death. Sir! No Sir!, directed by an active participant in this movement, mixes the powerful and moving accounts of GIs with the kind of archival footage from Fort Hood to Saigon that takes your breath away. David Zeiger deals head-on with racial politics, class, and personal responsibility all while challenging us to remember the past in ways that are radically different from the mainstream rewriting of the Vietnam War. Every frame of this film contains a deep sense of urgency. When history comes alive, so does the present.  RD