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    Alan Alda

    Though a successful stage and film actor, Alan Alda made his most lasting impact playing Hawkeye...

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    1969 (1988)

    Two anti-war college buddies (Robert Downey Jr., Kiefer Sutherland) hitchhike home, offend people...

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    Day Zero (2008)

    Three best friends in New York City have thirty days to come to terms with their fate--the draft is...

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    Bye Bye Birdie (1963)

    An Iowa songwriter (Dick Van Dyke) sees his big chance when rock 'n' roll idol Conrad Birdie comes...

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    Alice's Restaurant (1969)

    A draft-dodging folk singer (Arlo Guthrie) visits hippie friends in his VW microbus and ends up in...

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    Ali (2001)

    Muhammad Ali (Will Smith) battles Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier and George Foreman and raises...

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    Sergeant York (1941)

    A Tennessean becomes one of World War I's most decorated heroes by single-handedly capturing a...

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    Weekend Warriors (1986)

    A screenwriter (Chris Lemmon) and Hollywood entertainers join the National Guard in 1961, then put...

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    Our Winning Season (1978)

    A high-school track star (Scott Jacoby) fools around with his buddy (Dennis Quaid), until a Vietnam...

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    Capitaes de Abril

    Before the 1974 overthrow of facism in Portugal, a teacher (Maria de Medeiros) begs her minister...

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    The Revolutionary (1970)

    In this symbolic drama of social and political turmoil, Jon Voight plays an aspiring revolutionary...

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    Greetings (1968)

    A draft dodger (Jonathan Warden), a filmmaker (Robert De Niro) and a Kennedy-assassination theorist...

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    The Lieutenant Wore Skirts (1955)

    A TV writer (Tom Ewell) schemes to get his wife (Sheree North) out of the Air Force, where she's...

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    The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (1964)

    A pregnant French girl (Catherine Deneuve) chooses between her lover (Nino Castelnuovo) and a...

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    Punishment Park

    To avoid prison sentences, young dissidents must traverse more than 50 miles of desert on foot in...

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    Off Limits (1953)

    At age 50, Bob Hope was getting a bit too long in tooth for frenzied farces like Off Limits, but his...

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    Summertree

    As he lies dying in Vietnam, a young soldier (Michael Douglas) recalls the events leading up to this...

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    The Gay Deceivers (1969)

    Complications arise when two straight friends (Kevin Coughlin, Larry Casey) go all out in their...

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    Jenny (1970)

    Jenny (Marlo Thomas) is a single expectant mother who receives an offer of marriage from Delano...

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    Model Shop (1969)

    A Los Angeles architect (Gary Lockwood) meets a stranded French beauty (Anouk Aimée) who poses nude...

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    Fandango (1985)

    A prankster (Kevin Costner), an ROTC student (Judd Nelson) and their buddies hop in a Cadillac for...

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    No Time For Sergeants (1958)

    A Georgia rube (Andy Griffith) joins the peacetime Air Force and talks back to his sergeant (Myron...

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    Revolution (1985)

    A trapper (Al Pacino) joins the fight against the British in 1776 after his teenage son is tortured...

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    Begging the Ring

    Before World War One, Britain had never had to resort to conscription ("the draft") to put enough...

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    Prin Cenusa Imperiului

    Imperial Austro-Hungarian occupation troops in Rumania draft the local men into labor units and send...

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    Les Bidasses En Folie

    This broad French comedy emulates the much-better film A Hard Days Night in casting the Charlots, a...

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    Outside In

    Draft dodger Darrel Larson sneaks out of Canada to attend his father's funeral. Once back in...

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    De Loteling

    This Belgian film tells of the appalling conditions soldiers were forced to serve under in the early...

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    Identification Marks: None (1964)

    After being drafted into military service, a Polish student spends his last day coming to terms with...

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    Cowards

    Leading man John Rose finds himself faced with a difficult moral decision when he must choose...