USA,
1974, 113 min
Shown in 1974
CREDITS
- dir
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Peter Davis
- prod
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Bert Schneider
- cam
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Richard Pearce
- editor
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Lynzee Klingman, Susan Martin
- prod co
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B.B.S./Touchstone
- source
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B.B.S.; Bert Schneider
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COMMENTS
Shown 10/17/74; Bert Schneider, Lynzee Klingman, Susan Martin and interviewee Daniel Ellsberg attended.
OTHER
This is the most compelling and affecting documentary ever made and a must for every American. The definitive history of the U.S. involvement in Vietnam, the film goes back to 1945 to trace how trends in the media, the government and the economy slowly led to the state of mind which made our experience in Indochina possible and perhaps even inevitable. The statistics and maps and rhetoric which have always clouded the view of this war fall to the side, and we confront it through those who were touched by it—“hawks” and “doves” and bystanders on both sides of the conflict have their say. The lingering effects and meaning of it all are then explored in this triumph of factual filmmaking. And to those who think they have had enough or already seen it all, haven’t seen anything yet.
FACTOID #202
At the 1978 SFIFF, Paul Mazursky received a tribute at the Palace of Fine Arts. Apparently, the facility’s janitorial staff had not been notified, and the padlocked doors of the Palace had to be cut so the filmmaker and his audience could be let in.
