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The quiet mutiny / Bullfrog Films presents ; producer, Charles Denton ; Granada Television International.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Psychological aspects.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Psychological aspects.
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975--Public opinion.
- Public opinion.
- Insubordination--United States.
- Insubordination.
- Military art and science--United States.
- Military art and science.
- Sociology, Military.
- Psychology, Military.
- United States.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (27 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Place of Publication:
- [Oley, Pennsylvania] : [Distributed by] Bullfrog Films, [2018]
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- In this, the first of his 58 documentary films, John Pilger combines candid interviews and amazing frontline footage of Vietnam to portray a growing rift between the US military bureaucrats -- "lifers" -- and the soldiers who physically and mentally fight the war on the ground, the "grunts." By 1970, it is an internal sense of disillusionment and frustration born from this rift that is triggering the withdrawal of US forces from Vietnam. As the US employs psychological warfare against its enemy, Pilger finds himself unable to glean significant information from the military; a press conference he attends is nicknamed "the 5 'clock follies" for the evasive nature of the proceedings. And so it is with the grunts, the "wheels of the green machine," that Pilger finds a very human side to the US presence in Vietnam -- soldiers who are at once ready to serve their country and doubtful of their purpose there. Plied with visits from Miss America and ignored by Vice President Spiro Agnew, they experience the war in a way many of their superiors do not.
- Participant:
- Reporter, John Pilger.
- Credits:
- Camera, George Jesse Turner ; film editor, Gerry Dow.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced by: Granada Television International, ©1970; previously released in 2006.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed September 6, 2018).
- Originally released in 1970 by Granada International Productions Limited.
- Publisher Number:
- bf-quiet Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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