In the Year of the Pig (2/2) - Emile de Antonio (1968)

"In the Year of the Pig" is a 1969 documentary film about the origins of the Vietnam War, directed by Emile de Antonio. It was nominated for an Academy award for best documentary.
The film, which is in black and white, contains much historical footage and many interviews. Those interviewed include Harry S. Ashmore, Daniel Berrigan, Philippe Devillers, David Halberstam, Roger Hilsman, Jean Lacouture, Kenneth P. Landon, Thruston B. Morton, Paul Mus, Charlton Osburn, Harrison Salisbury, Ilya Todd, John Toller, David K. Tuck, David Werfel, and John White.
Produced during the Vietnam War, the film was greeted with hostility by many audiences, with bomb threats and vandalism directed at theaters that showed it.
De Antonio cites the film as his personal favorite. It features the ironic use of patriotic music, portrays Ho Chi Minh as a patriot to the Vietnamese people, and asserts that Vietnam was always a single country rather than two.

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[MCPetruk]

Best line begins 21:00

[SocraticTruths]

The same creeps who committed war crimes with their illegal Vietnam War are the same ones in power today. How many Iraqis were murdered by my country just a few years ago with that illegal war? To the Military-Industrial Complex with its NSA, CIA, spy factories, Air Force, Marines, Navy, politicians in their back pockets, arm merchants et al,  this American says fuck you.

[weissman2000]

"cost", "commodity", "currency"......If one doesn't know better, it sounded like a investment pitch, from Curtis Lemay, butcher of Dresden... amazing.....