The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam
Year: 1965
Language: English
Format: 16mm Black & White
Runtime: 56 min
Director:
Beryl Fox
Producer:
Beryl Fox
Executive Producer:
Douglas Leiterman
Cinematographer:
Erik Durschmied
Editor:
Don Haig
Production Company:
Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
This penetrating, perceptive and deeply felt documentary – made for the CBC television series Document – is unquestionably the most insightful film about the Vietnam War produced while the war was in progress. It was also one of the first films to deal in a serious way with the impact of the war on the Americans who fought it and the South Vietnamese who were being "saved" from Communism.
The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam earned filmmaker Beryl Fox a pair of Canadian Film Awards, including the Film of the Year prize and a TV Information Certificate of Merit.