F.T.A.

United States

1972

97 Min

Color

English

Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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PROD Igo Kantor, Francine Parker, Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland

SCR Michael Alaimo, Pamela Donegan, Robin Menken, Holly Near, Dalton Trumbo, Len Chandler, Nancy Dowd, Rita Martinson

DP Eric Saarinen, Juliana Wang, John Weidman

CAST Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Michael Alaimo, Len Chandler, Pamela Donegan, Steve Jaffe, Holly Near, Paul Mooney, Rita Martinson, Peter Boyle, Yale Zimmerman

ED Michael Beaudry, Joel Moorwood, Judy Reidel

Should be paired with Zeiger's Sir! No Sir! for an excellent alternative history of Vietnam dissent. Both films make no claim to present a balanced view of the war in its totality (no documentaries with an aim to succeeding should); rather, they work to recover a narrative that's suffered erasure. Zeiger's film handles the politics more substantively, and F.T.A. bears witness to moments of solidarity on the ground.