"SOLDIER BLUE" -1970-2 of 12

Released in 1970 at the height of the Vietnam War Soldier Blue drew parallels with the 1968 Mi Lai Massacre and was controversial for its unprecedented violence and its negative portrayal of the U.S. Army where Native American affairs were concerned. Along with Sam Peckinpahs The Wild Bunch it was deemed by reviewers as the most violent film of its time.
Following initial Box Office success it was quickly forgotten in America and its director Ralph Nelson denounced as being Anti-American in large due to the savagery perpetrated by the U.S. soldiers on screen.
In Europe the picture was a huge success, obtaining several re-releases in movie houses through out the 1970s and remains to this day a classic of the Western genre.
The movie was offered through out the years in several edited for content versions. This version, the Lionsgate American DVD release is the uncensored full version. (Offered here in 10 minute segments of 12 parts.).
Its violence by todays standards has been surpassed nonetheless to an unaccustomed viewer this flower-power, seeming romantic comedy western still packs a powerful punch and has the ability to leave its audience stunned.
Soldier Blue is by no means a perfect motion picture but I consider it to be one of the most brutal, honest and courageous American films.
NOTE: If you can't find parts 5 or 11 see under "Sodlier Blue" I misspelled Soldier and I cant seem to change it back.

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[xanglat]

I seen this movie long time ago !

It's a great movie !

Sam Peckinpah is G R E A T !

Thank you for posting

[fgulli720]

@xanglat Thank you for watching; )

[RikBison]

Thanks guy - been looking for this on DVD for quite some time. I finally found Little Big Man in a discount bin, glad to have a copy though.

[fgulli720]

@RikBison Hey There, Thanks for watchin you buy the Lions Gate dvd on amazon if you want. its the full length theatrical release.

[removetube]

Fucking murdering Savages! I hope the army gets Payback by the end of the movie!!!

[timebandit71]

2:50 not with those savages mate... any wonder why the us army showed no mercy to the indians, . only following there example...

[gell7]

@timebandit71 iotall truth based guess what? letters, histroical record suriving eye qwitness account s you can kill a mass of pl and cover it upo ...sooner or later thwe truth allways win! it may take a 100 or a thusand years the truth allwatys come out!

[Johnny8109]

Hell yeah NDNz rulez ! I´d ryde with them anyday .. But I can´t get those high-pitched war cries rite so they´d prolly have me play drums or shoot bowz n shiet

[kjkonrad]

Look whose comments gets most "ups". WTF, poor blue soldiers cruelly slaughtered by wild savages??? I wonder what comments I'd find in the end? Maybe some idiotic hymns for bravery and heroism of American Soldiers, fighting with Evil only defensively and in the only right cause? Defending country borders, right? Like them saying that they were defending USA independence during completely aggressive war in Vietnam (to which this movie refers, anyway)? What a morons!

[JennaDDDD]

@xanglat

Sam Peckinpah had nothing to do with it, idiot.

[Way2Spirited]

@timebandit71 Just a reminder: This is a fake, racist, inaccurate hollywood MOVIE not actual video of a day the 1800s... and as far as setting "examples" also known as "starting shit", the colonists came here, uninvited with the intention of committing full on genocide, we "savages" didn't ask for ANY OF THIS! You should be ashamed for getting such pleasure from the idea of mass murder. FYI I am a Native american woman,Anishinaabe and I love&protect my family... DO YOU? Would YOU fight back?