Movie #142........................."Howard Zinn: You Can't be Neutral from a moving train"

Movie #142 "Howard Zinn: You Can't be Neutral from a moving train" has a title more exciting than this documentary. Very dry and slow. Best part was footage of Alice Walker talking about this ex-professor of Spellman College, where she attended. It's mostly him talking and he does have a turn of the phrase once in a while when he speaks about what is wrong with our country, but very little is mentioned on HOW we go about fixing it. I wasn't very much affected by this at all, nor did I feel I learned much from this film; both things I expect from a good documentary. Would I recommend it? . It isn't Harvey Milk's documentary ---- I recommend that one over this any day.






You rated this movie: 2.5
Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train
(2004) NR
Matt Damon narrates this biographical portrait of historian and activist Howard Zinn, author of the pivotal A People's History of the United States, who's been at the forefront of progressive thought in America for decades. The documentary chronicles his commitment to social change through archival materials, commentary from Zinn and interviews with contemporaries Noam Chomsky, Daniel Ellsberg, Tom Hayden and Alice Walker, among others.