Coming Out Under Fire with Arthur Dong: DVD Cover

    Coming Out Under Fire Director: Arthur Dong

    DVD - Black & White Learn more

    BUY THIS ITEM

    • $26.99 Online Price
      $24.29 Member price
      Join Now
      • skip to cart
    • Add To List uiAction=GetAllLists&page=List&pageType=list&ean=767685972236&productCode=DV&maxCount=100&threshold=3

    GET FREE SHIPPING ON ORDERS OF $25 OR MORE

    DELIVERY & GIFT DETAILS:

    Usually ships within 24 hours

    Delivery Time and Shipping Rates

    Eligible for gift wrap & gift message.

    Enter a zip code

    • DVD Release Date: 06/14/2005
    • Original Release: 1994
    • Rating: Not Rated
    • Sales Rank: 44,885

    Viewer Rating:

    See All Detailed Ratings

    Customers who bought this also bought

     
    • Overview
    • Editorial Reviews
    • Scenes
    • Cast & Crew
    • Full Product Details

    Scenes

    Features

    12-page illustrated booklet w/ essay by award-winning author/journalist Chris Bull; Five previously unreleased interviews; Extended scenes from the 1993 Senate Armed Services Committee hearings on gays in the military; Music selections and historical documents; Theatrical trailer; Resource guide and reading list; Production notes; Interactive menus; Scene selection

    Full Product Details

    Scene Index

    Side #1 --
    1. Be Invisible [4:44]
    2. Red Blooded Americans [4:08]
    3. Do You Like Men? [3:49]
    4. We're in the Army [2:38]
    5. Articles of War [3:43]
    6. Gay Camaraderie [7:16]
    7. Passing as Normal [8:48]
    8. Witch Hunts [11:33]
    9. Queer Stockades [3:57]
    10. Discharges [8:15]
    11. Post-War Persecution [6:27]
    12. Don't Ask, Don't Tell [2:30]
    13. End Credits [2:25]

    Scene Index

    Editorial Reviews

    Innumerable homosexual men and women served honorably (and unnoticed) in the armed forces of the United States during World War II, while a great many others were swept up in anti-homosexual dragnets and entrapment schemes. This documentary interviews survivors of both kinds, and shows how it required tremendous courage and determination to cope with the society they found themselves in. Among the highlights are revelations of the ways these individuals had for identifying each other more or less safely, and the efforts many took to ensure that they would be able to serve their country in its time of need, despite the dangers of stigmatization or worse. The documentary is framed by the 1993 U.S. congressional hearings which resulted in the so-called "don't ask, don't tell" policy toward gays in the armed services, a policy which was calculated to please no one and which was predicted to be a failure before it ever began, opening the gates once more on service-wide anti-homosexual entrapment schemes. Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

    Customer Reviews

    • Viewer Rating:

    Write a Review