In the Year of the Pig (1/2) - 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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This is a real eye opener. I knew that many people became disillusioned w/ this "war" in it's latter stages and that many were aware that it was an unnecessary and "staged" war but. I never realized that so many knew how immoral and criminal it was before it even got going well. It seems as though this may have been the time when our government was bought and sold and ceased to be "by the people, for the people..." It's easy to understand why there was such an effort to suppress this in '68.

[Jsledge85]

Check out 3:53 I don't think I've heard truer words spoken in my entire life.

[Jsledge85]

This is truly a great documentary. It is increasingly difficult to find documentaries that are objective and unbias. The recent trend of producing documentaries deliberately designed to maximize entertainment value greatly sacrifices intellectual substance. Political polarization is an additional factor contributing to this phenomena. Consumers are increasingly forced to choose between documentaries oriented around a left or right-wing prospective instead of thought provoking objectivity.

[myleftearful]

This is an outstanding documentary. One of the few that really explains what went on behind the scenes