The Good Fight

"The Spanish Civil War, one of the most tragic struggles in modern history, has been the subject of many films, both narrative...and documentary.... Not until The Good Fight, however, has a film recounted in depth the role of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade, the band of 3,200 Americans who went off to Spain to fight against the armies of Franco, Hitler and Mussolini. They were part of an international brigade of 40,000 volunteers from around the world who joined to fight against fascism in one of history's most dramatic expressions of international solidarity. Narrated by Studs Terkel, The Good Fight is a rousing, funny, sad and moving tribute to those Depression-era Americans--whether labor organizers, Communists, or plain idealists--who joined the fight in which some 900 of them would lose their lives. The film features eleven remarkable veterans, all of whom have retained the passion, commitment and idealism of their youth." Mel Novikoff, San Francisco International Film Festival '84.

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