Catonsville Nine

Investigation of a Flame: Portrait of the Catonsville Nine, a film by Lynne Sachs. On May 17, 1968, three Catholic priests, a nurse, an artist and four others walked into a Catonsville, Maryland draft board office, grabbed hundreds of selective service records and burned them with homemade napalm. Their poetic act of civil disobedience helped galvanize an increasingly disillusioned American public against the Vietnam War. Lynne Sachs' Investigation of a Flame is an intimate look at this Sixties protest within our current times, when foes of Middle East peace, abortion, and technology resort to violence to access the public imagination. Lynne Sachs combines volatile, long-unseen, archival footage with interviews with Daniel and Philip Berrigan and other members of the Catonsville Nine, encouraging viewers to ponder the relevance of civil disobedience and the implications of personal sacrifice today. WWW.INVESTIGATIONOFAFLAME.COM WWW.LYNNESACHS.COM

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Film & Animation

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• Daniel Berrigan
• Catonsville NIne
• civil-disobedience
• documentary
• 1968
• Philip Berrigan
• Berrigan
• Vietnam
• War
• Vietnam War
• anti-war
• philip berrigan
• Lynne Sachs
• experimental documentary

[westman34]

I don't understand your claim that they used violence to capture the public imagination. These people felt that by doing what they did they would save lives and protest a war they thought was unjust by destroying PAPER. This is not violence against PEOPLE. YOU need to make a distinction when you claim that they are using 'violence to capture the public imagination'. I am sure most of the people who's names were on those sheets would be grateful if it saved them from going to vietnam.

[lynnesachs1]

Hello, it is the sincere belief of the filmmaker that the Catonsville Nine's actions were AGAINST VIOLENCE and for PEACE. With Daniel and Philip Berrigan leading the way, this powerful, imaginative statement of protest reveals the necessity to reflect actively on our governments wartime forays into the lives and politics of other nations.

[vivascargill]

@HeadbangingGlory archbishop romero?

[laxmonster9]

Philip Berrigan was a strict PACIFIST. they poured blood on drafter cards to protest the spilling of both American and Vietnamese blood during the war. THey then burnt these draft cards to protest the silence of the catholic church on its stance on the war and racisim during that era.

[HeadbangingGlory]

Daniel and Philip Berrigan are the only priests in the world that i can ever give respect to because they did what priests hardly ever do

[westman34]

I would hope so, but your intention when you wrote that was worded too vaguely to be sure.

Good to hear back from you.

And Daniel Berrigan IS a saint to put himself on the line like this.

[hopkins4545]

There are.  Father John Dear is exactly the same and his own unique style. He's on YouTube as well, check him out.

GB

[david510152025303540]

i just read his autobiography" TO DWELL IN PEACE, AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY"

It was good, however it was not written in a style that that I am used to. It read more like a long poem. It almost seems as if he finds it hard to write in a stright forward way. It was however very interesting and I learn over 200 words.

Thank God for people like him.I wonder where are the ones that will replace him when he is gone?

[hopkins4545]

Daniel Berrigan is a saint.