Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site decwrl.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!harpo!decvax!decwrl!daemon From: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Newsgroups: net.movies Subject: Message-ID: <6128@decwrl.UUCP> Date: Thu, 8-Mar-84 11:22:06 EST Article-I.D.: decwrl.6128 Posted: Thu Mar 8 11:22:06 1984 Date-Received: Fri, 9-Mar-84 02:08:58 EST Sender: daemon@decwrl.UUCP Organization: DEC Western Research Lab, Los Altos, CA Lines: 34 From: swshub::obelix::ruthr Subject: The Good Fight Here's a quick plug for one of the two or three best documentaries I've ever seen. THE GOOD FIGHT, a documentary about veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the Americans who fought on the Republican side of the Spanish Civil War 1936-1938, is an excellent documentary. Interviews with 12 people and period film clips were combined to make a well paced, fascinating, intriguing 90 minute film. The movie makers do not focus on the alphabet soup political faction fighting of the time, but rather, on what made the Spanish Civil War seem important to Americans at the time, and the importance of the experience in the veteran's lives. The vets are exciting people, still vital, even though the younges of them must be in their 70's. It's currently in Boston, and I know it will be shown in New York and San Francisco in the next few months. It's worth asking local theaters to show it--it's really fine, and was quite a commercial success here in Boston.