Oscar-nominated filmmaker Judith Ehrlich tells the story of a mass movement of draft resisters who choose conscience over killing in the Vietnam War. Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. and folk diva Joan Baez link the racial justice and peace movements. Joan marries David Harris, founder of “The Resistance” movement and their baby is born while he is in prison for draft resistance. Draft resister, Muhammed Ali plays a prominent role and Daniel Ellsberg of Pentagon Papers fame, inspired by these young people, blows the whistle on an unjust war.
Through dynamic archival footage and compelling interviews with the protagonists, the film chronicles a youth-led movement of nonviolent civil disobedience that ended the draft and helped end the brutal war.