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With palpable outrage, De Antonio (Point of Order, Underground) assembles period interviews with journalists, politicians, and key military personnel and international newsreel and archival footage to create a scathing chronicle of America's escalating involvement in this divisive conflict.
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- Documentary, History, War
- Emile de Antonio
- 1969-02-26
In the Year of the Pig is an American documentary film directed by Emile de Antonio about American involvement in the Vietnam War. It was released in 1968 while the U.S. was in the middle of its military engagement, and was politically controversial. One year later, the film was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature.
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Rent In the Year of the Pig on Prime Video, or buy it on Prime Video. Marxist documentarian Emile de Antonio delivers both a condemnation of the Vietnam War and a history lesson on its roots.
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- Emile de Antonio
- Documentary, War
- David Halberstam
May 2, 2018 · To watch “In the Year of the Pig,” the 1969 Vietnam War documentary by Emile de Antonio (1919-89) is to be dropped into the middle of a long-germinating and still-developing disaster.
— Anonymous. This Oscar-nominated documentary looks at those who were opposed to American involvement in the war in Vietnam. Released in 1968 as public opposition to U.S. involvement was still rising, several prominent Americans are interviewed.
Synopsis by Hal Erickson. Documentary filmmaker Emil DeAntonio's In the Year of the Pig was financed by New York society matron Mrs. Orville Schell; her fund-raising dinners earned her an executive producer credit on the completed film.
