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Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train (2004)

78 min  -  Documentary   -  18 June 2004 (USA)
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The life and times of Howard Zinn: the historian, activist, and author of several classics including "A Peoples History of the United States". Archival footage, and commentary by friend, colleagues and Zinn himself.

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Cast

Credited cast:
Matt Damon ...
Narrator (voice)
Daniel Berrigan Daniel Berrigan ...
Himself
Howard Zinn ...
Himself (also archive footage)
Alice Walker ...
Herself (archive footage)
Rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Noam Chomsky Noam Chomsky ...
Himself (archive footage)
Daniel Ellsberg Daniel Ellsberg ...
Himself (archive footage)
Tom Hayden Tom Hayden ...
Himself (archive footage)
Staughton Lind Staughton Lind ...
Himself
John Silber John Silber ...
Himself (archive footage)
Marian Wright Edelman ...
Herself (archive footage)
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The life and times of Howard Zinn: the historian, activist, and author of several classics including "A Peoples History of the United States". Archival footage, and commentary by friend, colleagues and Zinn himself.

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English

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Opening Weekend:

$4,658 (USA) (20 June 2004) (1 Screen)

Gross:

$120,250 (USA) (20 February 2005)
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Zinn, Howard: We grow up in a controlled society, where we are told that when one person kills another person, that is murder, but when the government kills a hundred thousand, that is patriotism.
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"Down"
Written by Eddie Vedder
Music by Mike McCready (as McCready) / Stone Gossard (as Gossard)
Courtesy of Sony Music
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Special Thanks Curtis Management See more »