Felix Greene and some Japanese cameramen deliver something quite harrowing to watch as his camera trawls the ancient land of Vietnam in 1965 just as the war from the south of the country visited itself on the communist north. Formerly part of French Indo-China, private land ownership has been morphed into public communality and we see families engaged in the sort of traditional agrarian living that employs some 95% of the rural population. Then the US forces start to target their smaller towns and cities, destroying infrastructure, buildings and people in equal measure. Despite assurances from…
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