Directed by Emile de Antonio • 1968 • United States
The first major documentary made about the Vietnam War remains a landmark work of political cinema and one of the most powerful antiwar statements ever committed to film. Juxtaposing interviews with newsreel and archival footage edited for maximum impact, director Emile de Antonio traces the history of the conflict from its roots in French colonialism to the rise of Communist leader Ho Chi Minh to the U.S.’s involvement in the region. A devastating indictment of America’s role in the war made while it was still raging, IN THE YEAR OF THE PIG dared audiences to question the official narrative and their own complicity in it.
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Underground
Directed by Haskell Wexler, Emile de Antonio, and Mary Lampson • 1976 • United States
How did a group of largely middle-class students become guerrilla revolutionaries near the top of the FBI’s Most Wanted list? Granted unprecedented access to the members of the militant Marxist organization kno...
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In the King of Prussia
Directed by Emile de Antonio • 1983 • United States
Starring Martin Sheen, Daniel Berrigan, Philip BerriganInnovatively merging documentary and dramatization, director Emile de Antonio reconstructs the trial of the so-called Plowshares Eight, members of a Christian pacifist movement committed t...
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Mr. Hoover and I
Directed by Emile de Antonio • 1989 • United States
The final work by uncompromising political documentarian Emile de Antonio is at once a radical assertion of his defiantly DIY approach to filmmaking, a deeply personal summation of his career, and a scathing attack on a figure whose specter hau...
