| Movie Review | The Journal of American History, 92.3

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Movie Reviews

Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train. Dir. and prod. by Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller, 2004. 78 mins. (First Run/Icarus Films, 32 Court St., 21st Floor, Brooklyn, NY 11201-4404; 718-488-8900; <mailroom@frif.com>; <http://www.frif.com> [Sept. 12, 2005])
Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train borrows its subtitle from the autobiography of the activist scholar Howard Zinn. This film is a tribute to Zinn's life and career narrated by the historian's Hollywood friend Matt Damon, who introduced Zinn's work to a mass film audience in Good Will Hunting (1997).	1
The box office receipts for filmmakers Deb Ellis and Denis Mueller's hagiographic documentary proved to be much smaller. The film includes archival footage of Zinn, as well as interviews with Tom Hayden, Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, and Zinn's former Spellman College students Alice Walker and Marian Wright Edelman. The film's basic narrative is familiar to those acquainted with Zinn's career: the early years of poverty in New York City, his service in World War II as a bombardier, marriage to his beloved Ros, graduate school at Columbia University, his first teaching assignment at Spellman College and participation in the civil rights movement, activism against the Vietnam War, and conflicts with the administration of Boston University.	. . .

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