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In the Year of the Pig (1969)

Feb 26, 1969 Documentary, War 1h 41m
User Score
69%
27 votes
Internet Movie Database
74%

Overview

Both sober and sobering, producer-director Emile de Antonio’s In the Year of the Pig is a powerful and, no doubt for many, controversial documentary about the Vietnam War.

Emile de Antonio
Director

Top Billed Cast

David Halberstam
David Halberstam

Himself
Daniel Berrigan
Daniel Berrigan

Self
Harry S. Ashmore
Harry S. Ashmore

lui-même

Full Cast & Crew

Media

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Reviews

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A review by CinemaSerf
Written on July 28, 2025

It’s not that it needed an actor to voice it, but it really would have benefitted from someone with just a little more inflexion and emotion in their voice as this archive-based documentary tries to explain to us just what the Vietnam war was all about. Beginning at the close of the era of French Indo-China, with somewhat idealistic treaties being created between the French and their former colonies, this uses quite an impressive collection of reportage to takes us through a chronology of what happens next. The end of the Vietnamese Empire, fragmentation of all things that were once under European control, the encroachment of the Chinese and/or Soviet-backed communists and, of course, the attempts of the US military to prop up a pro-western government - regardless of the methods or crede...

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