Front line

Duration: 0:56:00

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1979

Creator: David Bradbury | Filmakers Library

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Documents the action, tragedy, and death on the front line of the Vietnam War as filmed by the independent Australian news-cameraman Neil Davis. Captures on film the spontaneity of the South Vietnamese and Cambodian front lines. Describes the extremely tense and dangerous situations, techniques of battle, and the feelings of the persons involved--both military and civilian. Presents the American political statements contradicting the realities of the war. Shows explicitly the horrifying devastation of modern warfare., first hand account of Vietnam war by Australian news-cameraman

Complete Record: , Documents Australian photojournalist Neil Davis' eleven years in Vietnam and Cambodia filming war. Interviews with Davis are intercut with archival film and actual footage shot by the Australian at the front lines. , Documents the action, tragedy, and death on the front line of the Vietnam War as filmed by the independent Australian news-cameraman Neil Davis. Captures on film the spontaneity of the South Vietnamese and Cambodian front lines. Describes the extremely tense and dangerous situations, techniques of battle, and the feelings of the persons involved--both military and civilian. Presents the American political statements contradicting the realities of the war. Shows explicitly the horrifying devastation of modern warfare., , first hand account of Vietnam war by Australian news-cameramanNOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.