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

Rating:No Rating
Genre:Documentary
Release Date:July 23, 2004
Running time:78 minutes
Cast:Daniel Ellsberg, Matt Damon, Howard Zinn, Noam Chomsky, Marian Wright Edelman
Director:Deb Ellis, Denis Mueller
Producer:Deb Ellis, Denis Mueller
Distributor:First Run Features

Description: Matt Damon narrates this biographical portrait of leading American historian, teacher and dissident Howard Zinn. Using historical footage and contemporary interviews, the controversial author of 'A People's History of the United States' is revealed to be a warm humanist and one of the most inspiring thinkers of our time -- a man about whom Noam Chomsky said, "it is no exaggeration to say that he has changed the consciousness of a generation."

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