The Inextinguishable Fire (1969)

During the Vietnam War, the US bombed Laos more heavily than any other country had been bombed before. Today, the Lao people live among, and risk their lives to clear, over 80 million unexploded bombs on their doorsteps. With great beauty and empathy, this documentary reveals the unbelievable stories of the men and women at the forefront of this monumental task.

Born with cystic fibrosis, 28 year old Ethan Rice faces his demise with a dark sense of humour and more concern about what his passing will mean to those he leaves behind than for himself.

A German Documentary about the “village of friendship” that was created by American Veteran George Mizo to help the Vietnamese kids suffering from the Vietnam War.

After 30 years of conspiracy theories and myth making, this film uncovers the story of the CIA's most extensive clandestine operation in the history of modern warfare: The Secret War in Laos, which was conducted alongside the Vietnam War from 1964 -1973. While the world's attention was caught by the conflict in Vietnam, the CIA built the busiest military airport in the world in neighboring and neutral Laos and recruited humanitarian aid personnel, Special Forces agents and civilian pilots to undertake what would become the most effective operation of counterinsurgency warfare. As the conflict in Vietnam grew, the objective in Laos changed from a cost effective low-key involvement to save the country from becoming communist into an all-out air war to cut the Ho Chi Minh Trail and bomb Laos back into the Stone Age that it had never really left in the first place. Conventional bombs equivalent to the destructive power of 20 Hiroshima-type weapons fell on Laos each year - 2 million tons

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.

2002년 11월 8일 유엔은 부시 2세 정부에게 이라크를 공격할 수 있는 백지수표를 주었다. 파이낸셜 타임즈 지는 이렇게 보도했다. “어제 유엔 안전보장 이사회에서 이라크에게 무장 해제냐 전쟁이냐를 선택하라는 마지막 기회를 주기로 만장일치로 결정함으로써 미국에게 뚜렷한 승리를 안겨 주었다” 유엔 사무총장 코피 아난은 안보리에서 이번 투표가 “점차 위험해지고 있는 세계에서 평화라는 대의 명분을 강화하고...그러나 그 결과는 이라크와 중동인들이 치르게 될 대가 이상으로 훨씬 심각하다. 미국과 그 동맹국들이 유엔이라는 허울을 쓰고 이라크를 공격한다면 훨씬 더 노골적이고 공격적인 제국주의의 시대가 열릴 것이다. 미국정부는 이라크의 ”정권 교체“만을 추구하는 것이 아니라 중동의 지도를 다시 그리려 하고 있고 정치적 군사적 힘을 이용해 세계 자본주의 체제에 대한 미국의 견제적 지배를 더 강화 하려 하는 것이다.

A U.S. Navy Commander Jeremiah Denton leading a plane sortie into North Vietnam was shot down and captured as a POW. For 8 years of his life, he was a prisoner at Hanoi Hilton where he and other POWs were tortured. In a press conference, being forced by the North Vietnamese to say he was being treated well he blinked out the letters TORTURE in Morse code.

1965년과 1966년 사이 미국과 전쟁을 치른 베트남 북부 지방으로의 여정을 다룬다. 주인공인 체칠리아 만지니는 리노 델프라와 함께 촬영하기로 했지만 끝내 이루지 못하고 마음속의 상처로 남은 다큐멘터리를 기억해 내는 데에 어려움을 겪는다. 50년이 더 지난 이후 기억에서 잊힌 두 개의 상자가 발견된다.

A variety of locals react to a napalm plant and an ensuing protest in Redwood City CA during the Vietnam War.

In 1968, five girls from Tuscany who dreamt of seeing the world were offered to tour the Far East as an all-girl band, finding themselves in the middle of the Vietnam War. Fifty years later, they tell the story of Le Stars' adventure amongst American soldiers, remote jungle bases and soul music.

영국 사진기자 필립존스 그리피스는 베트남 전쟁에 종군 기자로 파견됐다. 그는 피해자의 시선으로 베트남 전쟁을 재구성하기로 한다. 벌레만도 못한 취급을 받으며 스러져갔던 피해자들의 사진을 에세이 형태로 풀어낸 다큐멘터리.

Mondo-style docudrama about a war correspondent who comes back home and has a spiritual crisis about his own mortality. Surreal fantasy sequences are mixed with graphic real autopsy footage.

This short film tells the story of Alene B. Duerk, the first woman to earn the rank of Admiral in the U.S. Navy. Admiral Duerk served in World War II and during the Korean and Vietnam Wars. After retiring, she went on to deliver meals to the elderly before passing away in her late 90s.

Part History Channel, part visual diary, and part mesmerizing abstraction, Allan Sekula’s video, A Short Film for Laos, 2006, takes the measure of day-to-day life in what the narrator describes as “the most bombed place on earth.”…

Archival footage, animation, and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

For three days in 1971, former US soldiers who were in Vietnam testify in Detroit about their war experiences. Nearly 30 speak, describing atrocities personally committed or witnessed, telling of inaccurate body counts, and recounting the process of destroying a village.

This High Definition, PBS miniseries uses letters, diaries, speeches, journalistic accounts, historical text and military records to document and acknowledge the sacrifices and accomplishments of African-American service men and women since the earliest days of the republic.