Bombing of Hanoi, Haiphong and Thanh Hóa c. 1972, 1972.

Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital.

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A film about American airstrikes in Vietnam [WARNING: includes distressing scenes.]. Hanoi: Map showing US air strikes and a voiceover explaining Nixon's decision to bomb Hanoi. Photographs of children at a bomb site and footage of bombed cottages. Civilians work together to carry one bloody casualty from the site on a stretcher across a stream. Haiphong: Jerky footage of bombing and ships. Extended scenes of civilians leaving their homes and moving casualties. Diplomatic core and foreign journalists visit a bombed high school, and the voiceover describes a deliberate attempt by the American government to do-away with education in Vietnam. Images of dead children and footage of bombed homes. The narrator explains how some of those who escape death cough blood and experience nerve trouble. Footage of a distressed woman and a mother. Hospital scenes featuring injured children. Footage of an old woman being lifted into an ambulance. Hospital scenes, including a girl missing a large chunk of skin from her back and a boy missing an eye. Images of a bombed hospital and details of other civilian targets. Photographs of children injured in the blasts. Thanh Hoa: Footage of rice paddies and palm trees, juxtaposed with barren, bare soil - a moonscape. Men and women work to clear the site of unexploded bombs. A pregnant woman lies injured in hospital. Footage of a bombed home and close ups of English writing on bombs. A doctor demonstrates how a small boy was injured by shrapnel. A bomb crater. Scenes of injured children. Civilians push an artillery gun up a hill and take position.

Socialism on film: the cold war and international propaganda.

Online / Video & Film

English

February 02, 2018

Production Company: Vietnam Documentary and Actualities Film Studio.