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Uploaded by on Jan 28, 2010

Investigation of a Flame by Lynne Sachs / The United States / 45 min

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. Investigation of a Flame is an intimate look at this protest within our current times. Lynne Sachs combines volatile, long-unseen, archive footage with interviews with 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.

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