Profiling the work of a Boston-based grassroots organization which helped draftees explore their legal options for resisting military service, this documentary portrait offers a thoughtful critique of patriotic obligation.

As Christmas Eve shoppers shuffled about Fifth Avenue, a group of demonstrators took to the streets to raise awareness of the war and make a direct assault on complacency and consumerism.

In 1967, 100,000 protesters marched on Washington to demand an end to the Vietnam War. Several filmmakers documented these events, following the protest from its peaceful origins at the Lincoln Monument to a more aggressive confrontation at the Pentagon.

Presenting a range of voices of dissent, America includes conversations with suburban teenagers, recently returned veterans, and African-American militants, all committed to ending the war in Vietnam.

In April 1971, thousands of veterans descended on Washington to raise their voices in protest to the atrocities of the war in Vietnam. This powerful document is one of the few which remains true to the perspective of those who served in battle.