The Nam Scare

In the mid sixties, before the anti-war movement, one daring film maker, Emile de Antonio, made an somewhat anti-war film about the issues over seas in Vietnam. There were many strong clips throughout the film making both sides of the war seem good and bad. One scene he makes the wife of Vietnams leader look absolutely pig-like. In the scene Antonio shows the wife in a luxurious outfit and immediately cuts to a scene of the poverty right outside of her dream world. Emile does a phenomenal job of sending messages to his audiences without using a voice of God. Simply using subliminal messaging through his editing is enough to send a mind wandering about what de Antonio is really trying to say.
Another powerful scene is of the monk that burns himself alive. This was used as a measure of protest against the Vietnamese regime in 1963. Many of the bystanders sprinted towards his burning body and bowed in praise of his unflinching death. Emile used this as a form of his anti-war effort. The editing would cut to a clip of carrosine being poored and then a politician speaking of it. Then it would follow with the ignition, followed by more speaking, and lastly, the rotting corpse and a quick cut to another speaking American.
Emile always seemed to be ahead of his time. He made this film before the American protest and tried to rat out Nixon before he reached office. Sadly people simply took his films for granted without truly analyzing what he was saying.