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Agent Orange

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Icarus Films • 1h 9m

Directed by Masako Sakata • Documentary • 2007 • 66 minutes

As a young man in the late Sixties, Greg Davis served for three years in the U.S. Army in Vietnam. The area where he was stationed was one of many throughout the country sprayed by the military, as part of its counterinsurgency strategy, with millions of gallons of defoliants, including Agent Orange, which contains dioxin, the most toxic chemical known to man.

After his military service, Davis married and worked for decades as a photojournalist for Time and other publications worldwide. In 2003, at the age of 54, he died from liver cancer, believed to be the result of his exposure to Agent Orange. Produced by Davis's widow, AGENT ORANGE chronicles the history of this lethally toxic herbicide, tracing its effects not only on her husband and other U.S. servicemen but also on the environment and continuing generations of Vietnamese.

"A visual poem… beautifully shot, well-composed… The film features heroes and heroines possessing wisdom, courage and fortitude beyond imagination."—Joan Widdifield, KUSF, San Francisco

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