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  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 23 m

Summary In the early-morning hours of Sunday, August 22, 1971, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and Attorney General John Mitchell announced that FBI agents had arrested 20 antiwar activists in and near a draft board office in Camden, New Jersey. Five days later, Mitchell made public the indictment of these individuals and included eight others who...

Directed By: Anthony Giacchino

  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 23 m
  • 2007
  • Not Rated
  • First Run Features
  • 1 h 23 m

The Camden 28

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Summary In the early-morning hours of Sunday, August 22, 1971, FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and Attorney General John Mitchell announced that FBI agents had arrested 20 antiwar activists in and near a draft board office in Camden, New Jersey. Five days later, Mitchell made public the indictment of these individuals and included eight others who...

Directed By: Anthony Giacchino

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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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Generally Favorable Based on 8 Critic Reviews
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88% Positive
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13% Mixed
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Scene for scene, The Camden 28 is a brilliant merger of political outrage and filmmaking chops, and the most suspenseful movie in theaters right now.
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Unexpectedly poignant documentary.
By Ken Fox FULL REVIEW
83
Though the filmmaking is pedestrian, The Camden 28's timeless truths come through with resounding power.
By Nathan Rabin FULL REVIEW
70
Fond, stinging, and finally instructive, the film assembles a comprehensive look back at the actions, arrest, and prosecution of a group of political malcontents (most of them young Catholics and some of them priests) in the summer of 1971.
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70
Director Anthony Giacchino realizes what an engaging tale he’s uncovered, and stays back to let the members tell their story.
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70
The video lapses into self-congratulation near the end, as many of the principals reunite for a 2002 retrospective, but for the most part this is a powerful tale of conscience, betrayal, and forgiveness.
By J.R. Jones FULL REVIEW
40
The Camden 28 is slapdash: more talking heads, reunion footage with the mother reading from her own testimony, newscasts of the day. But the editing supplies some urgency, and the subjects remain radiant yet down-to-earth--too good-humored to be beatific.
By David Edelstein FULL REVIEW

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Release Date Jul 27, 2007
Duration 1 h 23 m
Rating Not Rated
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Website http://www.camden28.org/
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Awards

Philadelphia Film Festival
• 2 Wins & 2 Nominations
Writers Guild of America, USA
• 1 Nomination

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