Far from Vietnam
This is a mixed bag of documentaries and documentary style shorts. There are interviews, rambling monologues, footage without explanation, animations, remixed footage. At it's most powerful, the images and words...
Joris Ivens
Filmography
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Class of Struggle
In 1967, Chris Marker and Mario Marret (under the aegis of SLON) produced À BIENTÔT J'ESPÈRE, which documented a strike and factory occupation, the first in France since 1936, by textile workers at the Rhodiaceta textile plant in Besançon, the goals of which prefigured many of...Watch Movie
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Far from Vietnam
Initiated and edited by Chris Marker, FAR FROM VIETNAM is an epic 1967 collaboration between cinema greats Jean-Luc Godard, Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch and Alain Resnais in protest of American military involvement in Vietnam, made, per Marker's narration, "to...Watch Movie
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Power and the Land
This historically important documentary, narrated by Walter Cronkite, tells the story of the Parkinson family, farmers in rural Ohio who electrified their farm with the help of a Rural Electrification Administration loan. Before the electrification of their farm, work was done...Watch Movie
Genres
- Documentary / History
- Documentary / Political
- Documentary / Social Issues
- Documentary / War
- Ephemera / Educational
- International / Americas / North American / American
- International / Americas / North American / Canadian
- International / European / Dutch
- International / European / French
- War / Vietnam War
- War / WWII
Recent Reviews
Far from Vietnam
The best Western film ever made concerning the revolutionary struggle of the Vietnamese people. As the title suggests, “Western” is the key word in this appraisal. The film is not...
Far from Vietnam
If you are interested in the history of Vietnam War, especially resistance to the war, you really need to see this. Resnais and Godard contribute their critique of the war,...
Far from Vietnam
Definitely worth a look, but you have to know about the Vietnam War to really appreciate it. I mainly wanted to watch the Godard and Resnais sequences, but it was...
Far from Vietnam
There is extraordinary footage in this film, and great indignation over the immorality and injustice of the U.S. involvement in the Vietnam War, which I share. The great mix of...