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This film recounts the history and attitudes of the opposing sides of the Vietnam War using archival news footage as well as its own film and interviews. A key theme is how attitudes of American racism and self-righteous militarism helped create and prolong this bloody conflict. The film also endeavors to give voice to the Vietnamese people themselves as to how the war has affected them and their reasons why they fight the United States and other western powers while showing the basic humanity of the people that US propaganda tried to dismiss.
This documentary presents both sides of the argument on Americas involvement in Vietnam. Included are interviews with several well-known personalities including Gen. William Westmorland, Clark Clifford (who was President Johnsons Secretary of Defense at the end of his Presidency), Daniel Ellsberg, and Walt Rostow among others on their views of the war. The documentary came out in 1974 before the fall of Saigon and the Norths victory over the South a year later. For some, the US victory is all that matters while for those who were opposed to the war, there is no justification. A third group provide an equally important view: the Vietnamese themselves, who have a less than sympathetic view of Americas role in the conflict.
Tin Chan
Self
Chau Diem
Self - Editor of Trinh Bay Magazine
Ngo Dinh Diem
Self - President of South Vietnam
John Foster Dulles
Self - Secretary of State, 1953-1959
Kay Dvorshock
Self
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Self - President of the United States
David Emerson
Self - Concord, Massachusetts
Mui Duc Giang
Self - Coffin Maker
Charles Hoey
Self - Air Force, Saigon
Stan Holder
Self - Corporal, Placitas, New Mexico
Jerry Holter
Self - Air Force, Saigon
Vo Thi Hue
Self - Hung Dinh Village
Lyndon B. Johnson
Self
John F. Kennedy
Self - President of the United States
Robert F. Kennedy
Self - U.S. Senator
William Marshall
Self
Eugene McCarthy
Self - U.S. Senator
Ho Chí Minh
Self
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