[3] It combines archival footage and interviews with participants that explore the events of the period on the University of Wisconsin–Madison campus.

[6] Dialogue from The War at Home was used as samples in the song “Thieves” by the band Ministry[7] on the 1989 album The Mind is a Terrible Thing to Taste.

Viewing the film after its recent restoration, Peter Canby writes in The New Yorker:The film covers the period from 1963—when the earliest demonstrators wore jackets and ties, in some cases smoked pipes, and attended teach-ins—to 1973.

In an unintentionally humorous moment, captured on film, a sociology professor named Maurice Zeitlin remembers students rushing in and asking him to talk sense to the police.

[9]Bill Siegel, director of The Trials of Muhammad Ali, was inspired to become a filmmaker after seeing the film.