Movies for the Day, Thursday, August 9, 2018

Today's movies mark Indigenous People's Day, the Tonkin Gulf Resolution, and the atom bomb. 

The Sky Above The Mud Below (1961) is a
documentary about an exploration of Dutch
New Guinea and its "primitive" cultures.  Today
is International Day of the World's Indigenous
Peoples.    Aka Le Ciel et la Boue, this film
won an Oscar as Best Feature Documentary.




The Sky Above The Mud Below










The Anderson Platoon (1967) follows
an American platoon of soldiers during
the Vietnam War in 1966.  It won an
Oscar as Best Feature Documentary.  This
film continues our series of Vietnam War
movies marking the Gulf of Tonkin
Resolution passed by Congress on
August 7, 1964, which authorized general
American warfare in Vietnam.



The Anderson Platoon











Fat Man and Little Boy (1989) is a
dramatic recounting of the development of
the atom bomb by the Manhattan Project,
especially in New Mexico.  August is
a key month for atom bomb anniversaries,
not least the dropping of the atom bomb
on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945.





Fat Man and Little Boy