In Exile

“In Exile” examines in detail the lives and assimilation problems faced by the approximately 75,000 American war resisters in Canada in the early 1970s. As the Indo-China turmoil came to an end and demands in the U.S. for draft resister amnesty increased, there was growing interest in whether these men and women would remain in Canada or return to the United States. The film includes interviews on both sides of the debate. We hear from ten draft resisters and deserters, counselors at the Toronto Anti-Draft programme, and an editor of Amex, a war resister magazine in Canada. On the U.S. side, we hear from Senator McGovern, Congressman Koch, a spokesman for the American Civil Liberties Union, the family of a draft resister ,and officers at Fort Dix, New Jersey. An interesting look at where these people were going after the anti-draft controversy had died.