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*Updated 6/17/11 To Include THE TWENTIETH CENTURY WITH WALTER CRONKIE: END OF AN EMPIRE (FRANCE'S): VIETNAM! 31 Information Films Aimed At The Hearts & Minds of America Films About America's Longest War Packed Into 4 All Regions DVDs!

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UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL JANUARY 16TH 1947: ENVOYS PROBE INDO-CHINA REBELLION(1947, 1:11)
consists of a quick, sweeping overview of the French Foreign Minister's visit to Angkor Wat, meeting frightened peasants and projecting nervous smiles, in the early days of the post-WWII Viet Minh rebellion.

A DAY IN AMERICA(1968, 28:48)
Consists of what amounts to a Pledge of Allegiance to the Department of Defense (you actually do see students Pledging Allegiance while the Defense Department Seal flashes on-screen). What you're pledged to defend is essentially everything that can be claimed American, multicultural style. Sprinkled liberally throughout are unique glimpses of just about every aspect of life in the U.S. as it existed at the time of filming (1968), while images of men in arms are kept to a carefully-timed-for-emphasis minimum. Americana shots include model rocketry, space program, pseudo-psychedlic nightlife (watch for the hippies with yellow teeth!), professional baseball & rodeo, high school football. Military shots include Marines in basic training, the Coast Guard in Helicopter patrols, Vietnam vets returning to the U.S.. Economic life vignettes display farmers, fisheries, lumberjacks, cowboys, doctors, construction workers (includes film of construction atop the World Trade Center!), movies (shows Barbara Streisand and Gene Kelly on a movie set!), steel, auto, textiles, clerical, computer. Cultural images include Native Americans, clergy & church services. And don't forget the leisure of "free time" and, most of all, the importance of the family!

BRINK OF DISASTER (1972, 28:41)
A film which summons the spirits of a circa 1972 student activist's ancestors, who proceed to beat him up before setting back the clock, returning to haunt him, but also to educate him. The head of the History Department attempts to assist them in this re-education, explaining to the Vietnam War veteran / football player / honor student that he's an unwitting dupe of a communist conspiracy to undermine American society. Amidst footage of the March on the Pentagon and protests at Lafayette Park on the one hand, and film of the Berlin Wall and the Invasion of Hungary on the other, the activist learns "What's Right with America", which is said to be, quite candidly, materialist superiority. "The Commies" haven't duped the shades of the Pioneer farmer who know Ben Franklin, the Sailor who knew Fulton, and the Mechanic who knew Ford (Franklin, Fulton, Ford - one more "F" & he'd be "4F"), and they tell their variously grand & greatly grand son exactly that. They win him over, and he decides he won't let the student rioters into the library to wreak wanton destruction after all - rather, he'll go & beat the hell out of them instead, shoulder-to-shouder with his teacher & disembodied kinfolk.

COLUMBIA REVOLT (1969, 49:05)
In April 1968, the Board of Trustees of Columbia University decided to build a gymnasium on land where the Morningside Community Park stood. While members of this low income minority community rose in fierce opposition to the plan, the students of the university likewise organized to prevent the building's construction. On April 23rd, the Students for a Democratic Society lead a demonstration in opposition to the planned construction, the defense establishment connections of the administration and the disciplinary action they had taken against six student activists. What began as a demonstration quickly became an occupation by the students of campus facilities, setting off a chain of events that ultimately resulted in a two month long, violent siege. This 1969 film documents the events as they happened from the perspective of the students, from the early stages of the administration's plans to the unofficial second commencement ceremony attended by most of the students (and much of the faculty) of the class of 1968.

THE ENTERPRISE IN ACTION (1965, 49 Min.)
An extraordinarly TV documentary produced by the venerable Wolper organization that follows in real time the lives, adventures and misadventures of a group of Skyhawk fighter-bomber pilots assigned to the premier nuclear aircraft carrier of the day, the U.S.S. Enterprise. Many of these men wound up killed or missing in action during the course of the filming of the documentary. One learns to care about these pilots and their concerns, while at the same time learning how the air war had changed in strength and intensity in the midst of the course of military actions that this film documents. An extraordinary documentary.

THE TWENTIETH CENTURY: END OF AN EMPIRE: VIETNAM (24 Min., B&W)
Walter Cronkite narrates as this venerable epic documentary series covers the French empirical experiment in Indochina that ended in the incredible battle of Dien Bien Phu.

THE NEWS MAGAZINE OF THE SCREEN VOL. 2 ISSUE 9 (EXCERPT) (1952, 0:48)
Brief newsreel report on French military operations against Vietnamese guerillas.

RED CHINESE BATTLE PLAN (1964, 25:15)
The U.S. Navy sponsored & produced this remarkable survey of the military and political history of the Chinese Communist revolution from 1921 to 1964. The "yellow peril" is here given bombastic propaganda treatment at a time when the U.S. was most immediately concerned with the prosecution of the war raging in China's neighboring country, Vietnam. The film goes some length in establishing a strong link between the two countries, which was accurate at the time though, as history has seen, only to a degree, and a rapidly eroding one at that.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL JUNE 6TH 1967: VIETNAM (1967, 0:47)
Shows the population of a Demilitarized Zone village forced to evacuate south by the US Marines due to Viet Cong military activity occurring in that sector.

TRAGEDY OR HOPE (1972, 24:43)
Summons the spirits of a circa 1972 student activist's ancestors, who proceed to beat him up before setting back the clock, returning to haunt him, but also to educate him. The head of the History Department attempts to assist them in this re-education, explaining to the Vietnam War veteran / football player / honor student that he's an unwitting dupe of a communist conspiracy to undermine American society. Amidst footage of the March on the Pentagon and protests at Lafayette Park on the one hand, and film of the Berlin Wall and the Invasion of Hungary on the other, the activist learns "What's Right with America", which is said to be, quite candidly, materialist superiority. "The Commies" haven't duped the shades of the Pioneer farmer who know Ben Franklin, the Sailor who knew Fulton, and the Mechanic who knew Ford (Franklin, Fulton, Ford - one more "F" & he'd be "4F"), and they tell their variously grand & greatly grand son exactly that. They win him over, and he decides he won't let the student rioters into the library to wreak wanton destruction after all - rather, he'll go & beat the hell out of them instead, shoulder-to-shouder with his teacher & disembodied kinfolk.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL MARCH 3RD 1967: AIRBASE SHIELD - SOVIET ROCKETS USED IN ATTACK (1967, 1:09)
The Viet Cong attack Danang airfield using the latest Soviet 140mm rockets from launchers as far as seven miles away to wage their heaviest & most powerful ground weapon attack of the war so far.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL OCTOBER 24TH 1967: ANTI-WAR DEMONSTRATORS STORM PENTAGON (1967, 1:51)
The famous "March On The Pentagon" that drew demonstrators of all ages from all over the country to conduct a 3 hour march from the capitol across the Potomac river to the Pentagon during the "Summer Of Love".

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL JUNE 6TH 1967: VIETNAM (1967, 0:36)
Navy Skyhawk attack planes launched from the aircraft carrier Kitty Hawk attack targets in North Vietnam.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL MAY 13TH 1965: JOHNSON ON VIETNAM - VOWS TO FIGHT ON UNTIL REDS PARLEY (1965, 2:29)
LBJ addresses the Association Of American Cartoonists with straight-faced insistance that the war in South Vietnam was the result of Red Chinese expansionism. What he would have made of Red China's losing battles with Vietnamese forces after the civil war was over is a interesting question.

KNOW YOUR ENEMY: THE VIETCONG (1965, 18:23)
Invaluable insight into the propagandization of the soldiers of both sides of the Vietnamese conflict is provided by this U.S. Army film which was shown to American soldiers to expose them to the tactical methods of South Vietnamese insurgent forces, which relys heavily upon captured VC propaganda films intended to be shown to their own forces.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL APRIL 26TH 1965: MACNAMARA ON VIETNAM - NEW MOVES COUNTER RED INFILTRATION (1965, 1:57)
The Secretary of Defense holds a press conference and touts American successes in disrupting North Vietnamese infiltration routes into South Vietnam.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL JUNE 6TH 1967: VIETNAM (1967, 0:47)
Shows the population of a Demilitarized Zone village forced to evacuate south by the US Marines due to Viet Cong military activity occurring in that sector.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL APRIL 18TH 1967: PEACE MARCH - THOUSANDS OPPOSE VIETNAM WAR (1972, 24:43)
Demonstrators assemble in New York's Central Park, a draft card burning is held and, lead by Martin Luther King, the assembled throng march to the UN building downtown in the face of counter demonstration confrontations in the largest anti-war protest to date in New York; a parallel demonstration occurs at the same time in San Francisco; violence erupts as the U.S. Embassy in Rome is picketed by Italian anti-war demonstrators.

PROGRESS TO PEACE (1967, 27:35)
Raymond Burr, the famous star of the "Ironsides" detective tv show series, narrates this revealing U.S. Army propaganda piece detailing the much vaunted "hearts and minds" offensive of winning the support of the Vietnamese people for America's goals and objectives in-country.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL MAY 5TH 1967: PROTESTS GALORE! (1967, 3:16)
4000 Londoners protest Vietnam War; major demonstration at Madrid University; 4000 "anti-hate" people meet at Detroit's Belle Island Park for a "Love-In"; Navy fighter-bombers attack North Vietnamese communication and boat repair facilities while China claims violation of their air space.

THE BATTLE OF KHE SANH (1969, 28:29)
Department of Defense film analysis the varied aspects of this pivotal battle in the history of U.S. involvement in the Vietnam war, wherein American forces placed atop the mountain fortress of Khe Sanh in a position to intercept North Vietnamese infiltrations route were beseiged by NVA forces as a ruse to divert attention and resources from a simultaneous general uprising in cities throughout South Vietnam during the Tet New Year's holiday.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL FEBRUARY 8TH 1965: SHOWDOWN IN VIETNAM (1965, 5:50)
A film document of the pivotal event in the history of U.S. escalation of force in the Vietnam War that was the Viet Cong attack on the air base at Pleiku; U.S. retaliates for Pleiku attack; Defense Secretary MacNamara holds press conference on retaliatory response; Hawk missiles deployed in South Vietnam; Special Assistant for Security Affairs McGeorge Bundy hold battlefront conference with South Vietnamese General Khan, visits the wounded, returns to brief the President and then answers questions from the Press at the White House.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL MAY 25TH 1967: NEW VIETNAM WEAPON - CUTTERS TO PATROL LONELY COAST (1965, 0:45)
Bayonne, New Jersey, where this DVD comes from, is also where four 82 foot coast Guard Guard cutters were placed upon a cargo ship and sent to South Vietnam for use against the Viet Cong.

THE AIRMOBILE DIVISION (1967, 27:17)
A U.S. Army film documenting the history, activities and doctrine of the First Cavalry Division, which unit occupies a special place in military history for its development of the tactical employment of the helicopter on the battlefield.

TWENTY-FIVE HOUR DAY (1967, 26:53)
Fairchild Aviation's opportunity to tout it's F-105 Thunderchief fighter-bomber, which was an essential component of U.S. Air Force air to ground operations throughout the Vietnam Conflict, as well as to acknowledge the contributions made by ground crews and rescue operations.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL FEBRUARY 28TH 1967: VIET SWEEP - TROOPS TAKE CONG STRONGHOLD (1967, 1:13)
First Cavalry Soldiers execute Operation Pershing, discover Viet Cong infiltrators of a village which is thereafter set afire.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL DECEMBER 9TH 1965: VIETNAM ACTION - "ENTERPRISE" PLANES SUPPORT TROOPS (1965, 1:30)
The aircraft carries Enterprise joins in the Vietnamese theater of operations and becomes the first nuclear carrier to engage in combat by launching F-4 Phantom jets on a bombing mission set against Viet Cong hideouts; ground forces go on "search and kill" missions against Viet Cong guerillas.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL APRIL 29TH 1965: MARINES IN ACTION - DOMINICAN RESCUE, VIETNAM OFFENSIVE (1965, 1:46)
The U.S. Marines are sent by LBJ to the Dominican Republic "to protect American lives; Marines deployed at Danang Air Force Base are sent on aggressive search and destory missions around the base.

UNIVERSAL NEWSREEL APRIL 4TH 1967: VIETNAM - BIG ENEMY FORCE REPULSED BY G.I.'S (1967, 1:16)
Viet Cong forces ambush a Marine truck convoy; Marines keep supply lines open; Viet Cong soldiers taken prisoner.

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