Vietnam! Vietnam! (1971ish)

Executive produced for the United States Information Agency by four time best director Oscar winner John Ford, Vietnam! Vietnam! was the last film with which the legendary movie maker was actively involved prior to his death in 1973. Made in support of a 'stay the course' war strategy that had largely been abandoned by the time the film was ready to be released in 1971, I've encountered contradictory information on the internet (big surprise) as to whether or not it actually was released, though the movie apparently sat in government vaults for decades before it became readily accessible on the internet. The roughly hour long documentary is divided into two parts, the first Vietnam! is a depiction of conditions 'in country', including massacred bodies and maimed children, it's at times pretty difficult to watch and was designed to make its American audience angry and want to continue supporting the war. The second part, Vietnam! deals with the political divide about the war in the United States, at first it starts out pretty even handed with propionates and opponents of the war given roughly equal time, however by the end of that segment its quite obvious clips were chosen to imply that the opponents were largely ignorant stooges and propionates far sighted patriots. As unlikely to change minds now as it was then, its still and interesting and kind of surreal artifact of its time.