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Newsreel. 36, Army / [Third World Newsreel].
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Draftees--United States.
- Draftees.
- Military training camps--United States.
- Military training camps.
- Basic training (Military education)--United States.
- Basic training (Military education).
- Vietnam War, 1961-1975.
- Peace movements--United States.
- Peace movements.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Short films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (20 minutes)
- Other Title:
- Army
- Place of Publication:
- New York, N.Y. : Third World Newsreel, 1969.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- System Details:
- video file
- Summary:
- Shot in 1969, this film documents the building anger of draftees in the U.S.military and the growth of the anti-war movement within the military. Soldiers are interviewed and seen as they face brutalizing treatment and indoctrination in bootcamp, military training that made the war atrocities of the Vietnamese War all too possible as "just following orders". The film blasts the U.S. presence and forsees its future in Vietnam, while comparing the South and North Vietnamese armies and their reasons for fighting.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed May 12, 2020).
- OCLC:
- 1158190810
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