Milestones

Milestones (1975)

A portrait of those individuals who sought radical solutions to social problems in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. Cutting back and forth between six major story lines and more than fifty characters. Exploring the lifestyles and attitudes of the American left during the period following the Vietnam War.

Date of release
1975-10-08
TMDB
7.2 / 10 (15)
Runtime
3h 15m
Genres
Documentary, Drama
Director
Robert Kramer, John Douglas

Casting

Interesting facts

  • Budget: $50K

Milestones is a 1975 American drama film directed by Robert Kramer and John Douglas.

Production

The film was co-directed by John Douglas, a member of the agitprop documentary film group The Newsreel whom Kramer prematurely departed and were against distributing one of his previous films Ice (1970), who also played one of the characters: a blind potter.

An introduction written both Kramer and Douglas before the film's premiere at the 1975 Cannes Film Festival presented the film as:

“a vision of America in the Seventies and […] a journey into the past and the future. It is a film with many characters. People who are conscious of a heritage founded on the genocide of the Indians and the slavery of the Black Man. A nation of people—trying to correct the errors of the present—the attempted genocide of the Vietnamese people.

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