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Vietnam Requiem

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Initial release
  
15 July 1982

Executive producer
  
Pamela Hill

7.9/10
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Narrator
  
Peter Thomas

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Cast
  
Peter Thomas, Duane Maybee, Albert Dobbs, James McAllister, Kenneth Patterson, Raymond Baker

Awards
  
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Individual Achievement in a Craft: Direction

Nominations
  
News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding Cinematography – News Coverage/Documentaries

Vietnam requiem


Vietnam Requiem was an ABC News Closeup Series television documentary directed by Bill Couturié and Jonas McCord. It was filmed in 1982, and transmitted in 1984 about the post-traumatic stress disorder suffered by veterans. It provided a substantial part of the sound samples used by Paul Hardcastle in his 1985 track "19".

Contents

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.

Awards and nominations

  • 1982, nominated for the Emmy for Outstanding Achievement in a Craft in News and Documentary Programming - Cinematography for Ted Haimes
  • 1982 winner of a Peabody Award for ABC.

    • References

    Vietnam Requiem Wikipedia
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