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The Trials of Henry Kissinger
Date: 12/1/2002Call Number: V 112Format: DVDProducers: Alex Gibney, Eugene JareckiCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A Film by Alex Gibney & Eugene Jarecki
Is Henry Kissinger a war criminal? Featuring previously unseen footage, newly declassified U.S. government documents, and revealing interviews with key insiders from Henry Kissinger's White House years, this new film examines charges facing the former Secretary of State and Nobel Peace Prize winner.
Focusing on his role in three key events - America's secret bombing of Cambodia in 1969, the approval of Indonesia's genocidal assault on East Timor in 1975, and the assassination of a Chilean general in 1970 - THE TRIALS OF HENRY KISSINGER also examines the possibility that Kissinger, by sabotaging the 1969 Paris peace talks to further Nixon's candidacy and his own concomitant rise to power, bears responsibility for all the deaths in Vietnam from 1969 to 1975.
To debate the issues, the film brings together Kissinger's friends, colleagues, and detractors, including Gen. Alexander Haig, Jr., Seymour Hersh, Christopher Hitchens, Walter Isaacson, William Safire, Lt. General Brent Scowcroft, and William Shawcross, as well as Vietnam peace talks delegate Daniel Davidson, former U.S. Ambassadors Edward Korry and David Newsom, National Security Council staffer Roger Morris, Human Rights Lawyer Geoffrey Robertson, and Professor of Law Michael Tigar, among others.
Shedding light on a career long shrouded in secrecy, the film explores how a young boy who fled Nazi Germany grew up to become one of the most powerful men in American foreign policy and now, in the autumn of his life, one of its most controversial figures.
Born of the People: Ho Chi Minh & Malcolm X
Date: 5/19/1975Call Number: V 217Format: UmaticProducers: Nothing is More Precious ThanProgram: Open Studio - KQEDCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Tribute to Malcolm X and Ho Chi Minh who share a birthday - May 19th. Utilizes historical Soviet film footage of Ho Chi Minh and the Vietnamese National Liberation Front and film and stills of malcolm X.
The War at Home
Date: 1/1/1979Call Number: V 234Format: DVDProducers: Glen Silber, Barry Alexander BrownCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
An acclaimed documentary, The War at Home reveals what happened in Madison, Wisconsin during most of the 1960s and the early '70s when students and the community began to protest the Vietnam War. Directors Glenn Silber and Barry Alexander Brown spent a long time going through the news archives of a local television station to cull footage from those years. Then they selected specific clips and first put together a background on the war. Quotes from John F. Kennedy to Richard Nixon and Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, along with many other public figures vividly bring back the past. Next, the events at Madison are brought forward and local public figures speak memorable lines. Demonstrations are shown, as well as news events, like the man, now in jail, who bombed an Army information center on campus and killed a student. Emotion and drama run high throughout, making this a worthy documentary for anyone who either has forgotten or never knew what those days were like. This documentary won a Special Jury Prize at the now defunct U.S. Film Festival and was nominated for "Best Documentary" at the 1979 Academy Awards.
Sir! No Sir!
Date: 1/1/2006Call Number: V 271Format: DVDProducers: David ZeigerCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
In the 1960's an anti-war movement emerged that altered the course of history. This movement didn't take place on college campuses, but in barracks and on aircraft carriers. It flourished in army stockades, navy brigs and in the dingy towns that surround military bases. It penetrated elite military colleges like West Point. And it spread throughout the battlefields of Vietnam. It was a movement no one expected, least of all those in it. Hundreds went to prison and thousands into exile. And by 1971 it had, in the words of one colonel, infested the entire armed services. Yet today few people know about the GI movement against the war in Vietnam.
The Vietnam War has been the subject of hundreds of films, both fiction and non-fiction, but this story-the story of the rebellion of thousands of American soldiers against the war-has never been told in film. This is certainly not for lack of evidence. By the Pentagon's own figures, 503,926 "incidents of desertion" occurred between 1966 and 1971; officers were being "fragged"(killed with fragmentation grenades by their own troops) at an alarming rate; and by 1971 entire units were refusing to go into battle in unprecedented numbers. In the course of a few short years, over 200 underground newspapers were published by soldiers around the world; local and national antiwar GI organizations were joined by thousands; thousands more demonstrated against the war at every major base in the world in 1970 and 1971, including in Vietnam itself; stockades and federal prisons were filling up with soldiers jailed for their opposition to the war and the military.
Yet today, with hundreds of thousands of American GIs once again occupying countries on the other side of the world, these history-changing events have been erased from America's public memory.
World in Action - Volume One
Call Number: V 311Format: DVDProducers: Granada TVProgram: World in ActionCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
A major strand of British television programming – in this case Granada’s World in Action - roots through its archive and comes up with twelve fascinating offerings made between the 1960s and the 1990s.
• Mick Jagger (tx. 31.07.1967)
• End of a Revolution? (tx. 11.12.1967) Che Guevara and Regis Debray
• The Demonstration (tx. 18.03.1968) Vietnam anti-war
• The Quiet Mutiny (tx. 28.09.1970) Vietnam troops
• The Man Who Stole Uganda (tx. 05.04.1971) Idi Amin
• Death of a Revolutionary (tx. 27.09.1971) George Jackson
• The Siege of Kontum (tx. 05.06.1972) Montagnards
• The Life and Death of Steve Biko (tx. 03.10.1977)
• Prisoner of Terrorism (tx. 10.07.1978) horst mahler
• Banged Up (tx. 02.04.1979) Strangeways Prison
• Killing for a Cure (tx. 16.02.1981) Animal Liberation Front
• The Birmingham Six: Their Own Story (tx. 18.03.1991) Irish Republican Army
In the Year of the Pig
Date: 1/1/1968Call Number: V 312Format: DVDProducers: Emile de AntonioCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Regarded as Emile de Antonio's best film. It's an attack on America's foreign policy and propaganda campaign during the Vietnam War. Funded by the French and a group of Marxist rebels, the film is provocative and coolly intellectual. The film shows that Vietnam was always a single country, goes to lengths to highlight the fact that the US treated the conflict solely as a proxy war against Communism and provides insight into the US government's increasing control of the media.
David Gilbert Clips
Call Number: V 347Format: VHSCollection: Videos in many formats – both camera originals as well as reference materials
Talks on various subjects, including Vietnam and expropriation.
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