| Description |
1 videodisc (112 min.) : Blu-ray disc, sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 booklet. |
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Blu-ray video file DVD video region 1 rda |
| Series |
Criterion collection ; 156 |
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Criterion collection (Blu-ray discs) ; 156.
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| System Details |
Blu-ray, widescreen (1.85:1); mono., Region A; requires Blu-ray player. |
| Language |
English. |
| Note |
Title from container. |
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Special features: Audio commentary featuring Davis; A collection of over two hours of Davis's unused footage, including excerpts from interviews with presidential adviser George Ball, broadcast journalist David Brinkley, French journalist and historian Philippe Devillers, and political activist Tony Russo; additional excerpts from General William Westmoreland's interview; additional audio excerpts from presidential adviser Walt Rostow's interview; and scenes from a funeral and a military hospital in South Vietnam. |
| Summary |
A documentary that unflinchingly confronted the United States' involvement in Vietnam at the height of the foment that surrounded it. Using a wealth of sources, from interviews to newsreels to footage of the conflict and the upheaval it occasioned on the home front, Davis constructs a powerfully affecting picture of the disastrous effects of war. |
| Awards |
Winner of the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature of 1974. |
| Subject |
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Videodiscs.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- United States -- Videodiscs.
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Vietnam War, 1961-1975 -- Public opinion -- Videodiscs.
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United States -- Social conditions -- 1960-1980 -- Videodiscs.
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| Local Subject |
ACADEMY AWARD WINNERS, 1974.
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| Genre |
Documentary films.
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Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
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Blu-ray video discs.
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| Added Author |
Davis, Peter, director.
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Criterion Collection (Firm), film distributor.
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| ISBN |
9781604658538 |
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1604658533 |
| Standard No. |
715515118415 |
| Music No. |
CC2371BDDVD-1 The Criterion Collection |
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