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Chiang Mai Movie Night! "Bombies" & "The Most Secret Place On Earth" (both related to the secret air war in Laos 1964-1973)
We've kindly been given a copy of 2 documentary movies related the USA's secret air war on Laos during 1964-1973. We're planning a movie night in Chiang Mai on a projector screen to show both movies.
1st movie is "Bombies" : "Between 1964 and 1973 the United States conducted a secret air war, dropping over 2 million tons of bombs and making tiny Laos the most heavily bombed country in history. Millions of these 'cluster bombs' did not explode when dropped, leaving the country massively contaminated with 'bombies' as dangerous now as when they fell 30 years ago.
Bombies examines the problem of unexploded cluster bombs through the personal experiences of a group of Laotians and foreigners and argues for their elimination as a weapon of war. Unfortunately they are still a standard part of the US arsenal and were dropped in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq"
More about this documentary here: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/bombie.html
& a preview here:
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2nd movie is "The Most Secret Place on Earth" : "The Most Secret Place on Earth does its best to communicate the horrors suffered as a war machine, built in the shadow of a larger war. Still, it is hard not to feel that this something beyond human comprehension. The “secret war” is, as the film implies, an ancestor of today’s U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But far from being the mold which contemporary wars were forged, the film depicts a war that is a nightmarish synthesis of total war and colonialism, a war in which two of the mist deadly manifestations of twentieth century violence culminate."
More about this documentary here: http://www.tomvater.com/laos/the-mo...untain-documentary-festival-of-qinghai-china/
Just finalizing the dates and will announce where and when.
We've kindly been given a copy of 2 documentary movies related the USA's secret air war on Laos during 1964-1973. We're planning a movie night in Chiang Mai on a projector screen to show both movies.
1st movie is "Bombies" : "Between 1964 and 1973 the United States conducted a secret air war, dropping over 2 million tons of bombs and making tiny Laos the most heavily bombed country in history. Millions of these 'cluster bombs' did not explode when dropped, leaving the country massively contaminated with 'bombies' as dangerous now as when they fell 30 years ago.
Bombies examines the problem of unexploded cluster bombs through the personal experiences of a group of Laotians and foreigners and argues for their elimination as a weapon of war. Unfortunately they are still a standard part of the US arsenal and were dropped in Kosovo, Afghanistan and Iraq"
More about this documentary here: http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/bombie.html
& a preview here:
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0jpd2yi]0jpd2yi]2nd movie is "The Most Secret Place on Earth" : "The Most Secret Place on Earth does its best to communicate the horrors suffered as a war machine, built in the shadow of a larger war. Still, it is hard not to feel that this something beyond human comprehension. The “secret war” is, as the film implies, an ancestor of today’s U.S. wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. But far from being the mold which contemporary wars were forged, the film depicts a war that is a nightmarish synthesis of total war and colonialism, a war in which two of the mist deadly manifestations of twentieth century violence culminate."
More about this documentary here: http://www.tomvater.com/laos/the-mo...untain-documentary-festival-of-qinghai-china/
Just finalizing the dates and will announce where and when.
