Vietnam Requiem
Vietnam Requiem was a 1982 ABC News Closeup television documentary directed by Bill Couturié and Jonas McCord and photographed by Ted Haimes. It is about the post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by veterans. The film comprises interviews with five Vietnam War veterans then in prison for crimes committed after discharge, inter-cut with news footage from the time of the war, with narration by Peter Thomas. After its television broadcast, it was released to educational institutions by Direct Cinema Limited.[1]
Vietnam Requiem provided a substantial part of the sound samples used by Paul Hardcastle in his 1985 song "19".
Awards and nominations[]
- 1982, winner of a News & Documentary Emmy Award for Special Classification for Outstanding Program Achievement - Program[2]
- nominated for three News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Achievement in a Craft in News and Documentary Programming: Cinematography for Ted Haimes, Editing for Stephen Stept, and Ken Melville and Dawn Atkinson for Music Composing
- 1982 winner of a Peabody Award for ABC.
References[]
- ^ Video for libraries : special interest video for small and medium-sized public libraries. Chicago : American Library Association. 1988. p. 115. ISBN 978-0-8389-0498-5. Retrieved 2021-04-26.
- ^ "Wayback Machine" (PDF). 2018-07-28. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2018-07-28. Retrieved 2021-04-26. Cite uses generic title (help)
- Vietnam requiem, ISBN 1-55974-216-X.
External links[]
- Vietnam Requiem at IMDb
- Vietnam Requiem at Direct Cinema Limited
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