In the Year of the Pig (1969) on Netflix
NR19691h 41mDocumentaryWar
Archival footage and interviews form this account of American involvement in the Vietnam War. Made while the fighting continued, it drew bomb threats and vandalism at theaters that showed it.
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Plot summary
The record of American involvement in the Vietnam War is assembled here from black-and-white historical footage and from a long list of interviews. The film was put together and shown while the war was still being fought. Its perspective made it politically controversial, and the reactions it drew were sometimes more than verbal: bomb threats and vandalism were aimed at the theaters that screened it.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about In the Year of the Pig (1969)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- When In the Year of the Pig was shown, audiences greeted it with hostility, and the theaters that screened it were hit with bomb threats and vandalism.
- A still photograph of Marine Corporal Michael Wynn that appears in the film was used on the cover of The Smiths' 1985 album Meat Is Murder, with the insignia on his helmet changed to "meat is murder".
