One man vs. the war machine — and he brought his film crew.
At the risk of a 5-year prison term, Francesco Da Vinci struggles with his Virginia draft board to be recognized as a sincere conscientious objector to the Vietnam war.
Direction
Da Vinci documents his own rebellion — meta before meta was cool.
Production
Raw archival footage of 1968 bureaucracy at its most Kafkaesque.
Director
Francesco Da Vinci
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The title 'I Refuse to Kill' was literally Da Vinci's legal defense strategy — he trademarked his conscience.
This predates Errol Morris's direct-address style by decades; Da Vinci essentially invented vlogging as civil disobedience.
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