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The Draft (2015)
Director: Aaron Matthews
Cast: Campbell Scott, Donald Rumsfeld, Dan Rather, Tom Hayden
Runtime53 min
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Historians, veterans, politicians, and anti-war leaders discuss the history of the military draft in the United States through the Vietnam War, and examine the consequences of its replacement with an all-volunteer professional force currently comprising less than one-half of one percent of the population.
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Directed by Aaron Matthews in 2015, The Draft offers a thought-provoking examination of the history and consequences of the military draft in the US, drawing insights from a diverse range of experts and perspectives. Fans of insightful documentaries that explore significant political and social issues will find this film particularly compelling.
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Conscription, also known as the draft in American English, is the practice in which the compulsory enlistment in a national service, mainly a military service, is enforced by law. Conscription dates back to antiquity and it continues in some countries to the present day under various names. The modern system of near-universal national conscription for young men dates to the French Revolution in the 1790s, where it became the basis of a very large and powerful military. Most European nations later copied the system in peacetime, so that men at a certain age would serve 1 to 8 years on active duty and then transfer to the reserve force. In the early 2000s, Norway and Sweden became the first nations to conscript women on the same legal terms as men. In 2025, Denmark ruled to implement a similar system.
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