Path to War
by John Frankenheimer
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Actor: Alec Baldwin, Donald Sutherland, Michael Gambon, Philip Baker Hall, Tom SkerrittDirector: John Frankenheimer
Brand: GAMBON,MICHAEL
Producer: Barry Levinson
Producer: Cary Brokaw
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; Spanish (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; French (Dubbed), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen
Picture Format: Unknown
Running Time: 164 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-03-25
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Model: 91911
Studio: HBO Video
Product features:
- Actors: Michael Gambon, Donald Sutherland, Alec Baldwin, Bruce McGill, James Frain.
- Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Dubbed, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC.
- Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround), French (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo), Spanish (Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo).
- Subtitles: English, Spanish, French.
- Rated: NR. Run Time: 165 minutes.
DVD Reviews of Path to War
DVD Review: Lesson of Vietnam: Post Truman....Democrats lose wars
Summary: 4 Stars
This is a very good film. Top notch acting by all of the cast. The film, based on all I've read, is also quite true to history. It's really revealing to see the degree which Johnson fought such a limited and overly-analyzed war. In the movie, he is portrayed as having a huge amount of guilt of any deaths, on either side. Look, this is war......either don't wage it......or wage it to win.
What is not known by many people is that militarily , The US was winning most battles and exacting a heavier toll than the VC was inflicting on us. However, due to Johnson's (and his administration's) guilt and reluctance to wage a war to WIN, the peace movement at home who was rooting for the vc, and the media who was against the war and constantly referred to it as "unwinnable".....the Viet Cong leaders acquired courage and took heart. These anti-war elements gave the Viet Cong the fortitude to keep fighting.
For example, after the Tet Offensive....which was a great military victory for the USA....our military having utterly repelled the offensive of the VC....the North Vietnamese leaders began to notice reports from the USA which were reporting the battle as different from what it was. One VC leader was quoted to have said that he felt they were defeated after their route at Tet.....yet upon seeing reports from the US, by the anti-war US media, that reported it was a defeat for the US.....his communist troops took heart and knew they must continue the fight.
In several parts of the film.....Johnson and members of his adminstration expound upon how tough and unbeatable the Viet Cong were. They seem to almost be fawning over the fact of the invincibility of the foe. This coupled with the limited war.....over-analysis by washington bureaucrats on actually picking targets.....not letting the military sweep into the North.....lead to our eventual demise there.
After Johnson was voted out...because of his squeamishness in fighting the war....Nixon was elected. He did his best to end the war nobly....scaling back troops while escalating the bombimg. At the Paris Peace Accords, he created a truce between the North and the South which was backed up by the threat of U.S. military action should the North reneg and invade the South.
But, alas, the congressional democrats, using the cover of watergate, frantically went after Nixon causing him to resign, thus in effect closing the door on the South. Gerald Ford subsequently pleaded with the democratic congress not to turn our backs on the South....but they did.
The legacy that followed was one of death and blood. The North swept into the south. Laos and Cambodia were invaded by the commies. Hundreds of thousands were thrown into conmmunist concentration and reeducation camps and in Cambodia....the killing fields ensued. Children watched as their parents were murdered ( often beheaded or garroted )by the red regime.
In all, a good film that accurately gets across the mindset of the Johnson administration. Recommended.
Description of Path to War
Dramatization of President Johnson's difficult decision to withdraw from Vietnam or escalate the operation.Genre: Feature Film-Drama
Rating: UN
Release Date: 1-JUN-2004
Media Type: DVD
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