Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (2004) on Netflix
PG-1320041h 27mBiographyDocumentaryHistory
John Kerry serves a Navy tour in Vietnam, then joins the veterans speaking out against the war at home. Archival footage and shipmates' recollections trace his part in the protest movement.
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Plot summary
The film traces John Kerry from his Navy service in Vietnam to the years when he campaigned to end the war. Men who served beside him on the swift boats describe the duty he sought and the patrols and battle damage the footage records. At home he takes a leading role in Vietnam Veterans Against the War, whose Winter Soldier Investigations and other gatherings appear in period film. His testimony before a Senate committee and the Dewey Canyon III protests in Washington appear too, along with a Mall gathering held in defiance of court orders and marches to Arlington National Cemetery. Interviews with classmates, relatives and fellow veterans appear alongside photographs taken from 1969 onward.
Cast
- David Alstonas Himself - Gunner's Mate, PCF-94, Vietnam Veteran
- Dan Barbieroas Himself - Yale Roommate, Vietnam Veteran
- Harvey Bundyas Himself - Yale Roommate
- Chris Gregoryas Himself - VVAW Anti-War Activist, Vietnam Veteran
- Joe Kleinas Himself - Writer
- Michael Medeirosas Self
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry (2004)
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- The documentary grew out of a forty-year friendship: George Butler and John Kerry first met in 1964, while Butler was a reporter and photographer, and in 1971 they published a book together, The New Soldier, about Vietnam veterans and the anti-war movement.
- Butler has documented Kerry's political career with thousands of photographs over the years, and Kerry is godfather to one of Butler's sons.
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