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Time of the Locust

Vietnam - Here and There • 12m

Directed by Peter Gessner • Documentary • 1966 • 13 minutes

Compiled from American news film, Vietnamese National Liberation Front combat footage, and unreleased material filmed by Japanese Television camera units, this now classic film by Peter Gessner provides one of the strongest treatises against the war in Vietnam.

"Gessner's Time of the Locust is one of the best anti-Vietnam films made by underground filmmakers." —Susan Braudy, New York Magazine

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20th century, anti-war, antiwar, combat, communication and media studies, documentary, expository, film, history, icarus films, national liberation front, ovid, radio and television, s_0049, s_0238, s_0270, s_0281, s_0286, social issues, the 1960s and vietnam era, time of the locust, title_t, u.s. history, video, vietnam, vietnam era, war and peace

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