Peace film series set at UM Orono

ORONO – The spring Peace and Justice Film Series has been announced at the University of Maine. The free films will be held at 7 p.m. Thursdays at 110 Little Hall on campus. Discussion will be held after each film.

. Jan. 26: “Hearts and Minds,” Academy Award-winning documentary that casts a sharp eye toward the U.S. government’s all-out effort during the Vietnam War. Director Peter Davis of Castine uses his own war footage, newsreels, presidential speeches and interviews with the likes of Robert Kennedy, Gen. William Westmoreland and Daniel Ellsberg to provide a compelling argument against war.

. Feb. 2: “Sir! No Sir!, the story of a vibrant and widespread upheaval of the 1960s, a film about the GI movement against the war in Vietnam.

. Feb. 9: “All Quiet on the Western Front,” which follows a group of German schoolboys talked into enlisting at the beginning of World War I.

. Feb. 16: “Arlington West,” interviews with soldiers and Marines en route to and returning from the war in Iraq, plus interviews with military families in a documentary by longtime activist-artists Sally Marr and Peter Dudar. The film presents a “temporary cemetery” in the sand, erected every Sunday by the Veterans For Peace in Santa Barbara, Santa Monica, Oceanside and other locations.

. Feb. 23: “Black Hollywood: America Beyond the Color Line,” Henry Louis Gates Jr. travels the United States to take the temperature of black America at the start of the new century; “Los Angeles: Black Hollywood,” with Don Cheadle, Samuel L. Jackson and musician Alicia Keys.

. March 30: “Mighty Times: The Legacy of Rosa Parks,” the story of the woman who defied racial segregation on Dec. 1, 1955, inspiring the African American Movement of Montgomery, Ala., to unite under the leadership of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

. April 6: “Howard Zinn: You Can’t Be Neutral on a Moving Train,” author of “A People’s History of the United States.” Includes interviews with Noam Chomsky, Marian Wright Edelman, Daniel Ellsberg, Tom Hayden and Alice Walker.

. April 13: The Marx Brothers’ “Duck Soup,” a raucous political satire.