79 Spring Times of Ho Chi Minh Santiago Alvarez Producer: ICAIC 1969, 25 min., Color, Cuba This impressionist biography on the leader of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam skillfully interweaves still photos, newsreel footage, and Ho Chi Minh's poetry. Depicting a life that spanned three re...
Bittersweet Survival : Southeast Asian Refugees in America J.T. Takagi & Christine Choy Producer: Third World Newsreel 1982, 30 min., Color, US This documentary examines the re-settlement of South-East Asian refugees in the United States in the aftermath of the Vietnam War. The film begins with a montage of riveting footage depicting the deva...
A Day of Plane Hunting Democratic Republic of Vietnam Producer: Democratic Peoples' Republic of Viet Nam 1968, 20 min., BW, Vietnam This film demonstrates the crucial role that Vietnamese women played in the war. It focuses on the attempts made during the war to achieve the total participation of women in production, education and...
The Imagined, the Longed-for, the Conquered and the Sublime Roddy Bogawa 1994, 8 min., Color, US The video is a collection of 'pure images' of landscape, redeeming these images for what they are. Taken, but unaltered, in the order they appear, from the films Platoon, Full Metal Jacket, Hamburger ...
Keep Saray Home Brian Redondo Producer: Brian Redondo, Bethany Li & Kevin Lam 2020, 31 min., Color, US Far from the southern border, in the outskirts of Boston, Cambodian and Vietnamese refugees are facing their own battle against family separation. ICE is detaining and deporting community members on a...
Nailed It: Vietnamese & The Nail Industry Adele Pham 2018, 59 min., Color, US Visit any strip mall in the United States, and there’s bound to be a Vietnamese nail salon. While ubiquitous in cities across the country, few Americans know the history behind the salons and the 20 V...
Struggle For Life National Liberation Front Vietnam Producer: National Liberation Front Vietnam 1968, 30 min., BW, Vietnam This film depicts Vietnamese medical cadres working to save the lives of people in the liberated areas of South Vietnam during the war. At the front, medics carry the wounded to carefully concealed tu...
Young Puppeteers of Vietnam Democratic Republic of Vietnam Producer: Democratic Peoples' Republic of Viet Nam 1969, 25 min., BW, Vietnam Art, dance, music and poetry became a vital necessity for the liberated areas of South Vietnam in their daily efforts to survive the bombings and napalming of the Vietnam War. In this moving film, tee...
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