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Ham. But this is Day’s show all the way, and her performance remains the film’s strongest suit. Premiering April 25 at the Angelika Film Center. He lives in Paris and Sydney with his family. “After much searching by us and the local fixer, it was only when we located the monument to the North. The site's critical consensus reads, "Anchored by Bryan Cranston's phenomenal performance as LBJ, All the Way is an engrossing portrayal of a complicated man during a pivotal moment in US history." There are any number of other useful sections at the AWM, such as a page devoted to the National Service scheme, here. Now in his late 60s, the legendary Petersen is still alive and agreed to be interviewed for the film. On Metacritic the film has a score of 78 out of 100, based on 27 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews". Interviews were conducted in Sydney with several Australian diggers and, officers. I'm interested in the impact of war on human society. travelled across three continents to tell it”, says Ham. The documentary follows a group of musicians and friends as they write, rehearse and record new material to a strict three day deadline. Julien Dubuque International Film Festival April 18-25, 2021. And it was in the realms of politics and economics that the differences turned cold. At the same time, Johnson wants to declare a War on Poverty. Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library, Washington, D.C. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Library, San Jose, Davis v. County School Board of Prince Edward County, John F. Kennedy's speech to the nation on Civil Rights, Chicago Freedom Movement/Chicago open housing movement, Green v. County School Board of New Kent County, Alabama Christian Movement for Human Rights, Council for United Civil Rights Leadership, Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), Heart of Atlanta Motel, Inc. v. United States, List of lynching victims in the United States, Spring Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam, Birmingham Civil Rights National Monument, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=All_the_Way_(film)&oldid=1017697549. It was shortlisted for the Prime Minister's Prize for non-fiction, and was also shortlisted for the Walkley Award for non-fiction. So Ham heads off to the central highlands, which played a strategic role, situated as it was near the borders of Laos and Cambodia and the Ho Chi Minh trail. Ham claims that Menzies received much advice that Australia's line of defence only extended to Malaya, over a thousand kilometres south of Vietnam, but Menzies ignored all his advisors, and encouraged the United States to stay involved in Vietnam. United States House Select Committee on Assassinations, Martin Luther King Jr. Records Collection Act, King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis, The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306, Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story, Joseph Schwantner: New Morning for the World; Nicolas Flagello: The Passion of Martin Luther King. And so the story returns to Ted Serong and his participation in a CIA organised campaign of terror, the Phoenix Program, and the delightful phrase "infrastructure neutralisation". historical documentaries should - how Canberra lost touch with its closest ally at the diplomatic level". The Vietnam war dragged us screaming and kicking to an obvious reality - that we are part of Asia and that we can only rely on ourselves for our security … and yet we fight on in new wars, with old allies, still in the dark, still trusting our friends ... His publisher Random House provides this short biography for him: Paul Ham is the author of Hiroshima Nagasaki (2011), Vietnam: The Australian War (2007) and Kokoda (2004). LOS ANGELES (PRWEB) March 24, 2021 -- The critically acclaimed short documentary ONE ALL THE WAY produced by 08008 Productions (www.oneallthewaymovie.com) will premiere at the 19th annual Garden State Film Festival on March 28th as part of its hybrid virtual and in-person screening. This film is the beginning of that conversation Films about presidents of the United States, Pages using infobox television with editor parameter, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 14 April 2021, at 05:01. Production company: November Films; developed and produced in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation; financed in association with ScreenNSW; a National Documentary Program for Screen Australia. The Way is a 2010 American-Spanish drama film directed, produced and written by Emilio Estevez and starring Martin Sheen, Deborah Kara Unger, James Nesbitt, Yorick van Wageningen, and Renée Estevez.. "We left Vietnam," says Ham, "not with a bang but a whimper. We utterly deluded ourselves about America's motives, fear of Communism, Red China, falling dominoes. only permitted to film under the supervision of a Government appointed minder. None are doing the walk for religious reasons but all are moved by the end. Vietnamese lost in the same battle that we knew we were at the right place”, says Ham. Ham: "All the way was a slogan, not a policy. United States throughout the Vietnam conflict. For anyone interested in the history of the Vietnam war in terms of Australia's military involvement, the Australian War Memorial has a short introduction, with useful links. The battle has a curious echo of the action in Kapyong in Korea in 1951, where Canadians called down NZ artillery fire on their own positions in a desperate attempt to prevent themselves from being overrun. It has been nominated for a Television Critics Association Award for Outstanding Achievement in Movies, Miniseries and Specials, with Cranston also nominated for Individual Achievement in Drama for his work on the film. America retreated across the Pacific, and Australia faced an uncertain future in Asia. After five years as a feature writer for the Financial Times magazine division, he and two friends began publishing newsletters aimed at the top end of town – one for banks trying to prevent themselves being targets of money launderers, another for shareholders wishing to be informed about inflated executive fees and poor company governance ("an idea before its time"). [1] The film was well received by critics, with Cranston's portrayal of Johnson garnering praise. All the way wasn't very far at all.". By embracing the local customs and, aspirations, Petersen gained the loyalty of the locals and managed to raise an effective army, Now in his late 60s, the legendary Petersen is still alive and agreed to be interviewed for the, film. Ham's 832 page history Vietnam The Australian War, which formed the basis for the documentary, is listed by its publisher here. But what can’t be seen physically is still felt politically. "Let down totally and completely by politicians not knowing what the hell they're doing". There's a wiki on the military history here, and a wiki on the Australian Army Training Team in Vietnam, which takes up a considerable amount of Paul Ham's documentary, here. Nearly five decades on, the traces of war are not immediately obvious – so it was no surprise that some sites were a little harder to find than others. It's around this point that the documentary makes a minor but irritating mistake in the timeline - Diem and his brother are said by Ham to have been assassinated on the afternoon of November 1st, but the year isn't specified, and it's only if you leave the documentary that you discover that the coup was mounted that day in 1963, but the actual executions took place the next, on 2nd November. What emerged was a complex story of political, To tell the story, the film combines contemporary footage of Ham revisiting key locations of, the Vietnam War, with extensive never-before-seen archive footage and stills from personal, and institutional archives in Australia, America and Vietnam, as well as interviews with key, players. The film includes contemporary footage of Ham in key locations of the Vietnam War, with excusive never-before-seen archival footage and stills from personal and institutional archives in Australia, America and Vietnam. All the Way (TV Movie 2016) cast and crew credits, including actors, actresses, directors, writers and more. And er simply because we followed an ally that was lying to us. It was also in Melbourne, in the Tattersall’s Club that the team found the original conscription barrel, from which the birthdays of over 15,000 National Servicemen were chosen to go to Vietnam. The state of Mississippi also sends two delegations to the Democratic National Convention in Atlantic City: the "normal" delegation from the Dixiecrat wing, which threatened to walk out on Johnson, and the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party, a renegade wing supported by the Civil Rights Movement, but vehemently opposed by other Southerners. Little remains of the base today, except for an old guardhouse and the main gates. The Vietnamese Government is still sensitive about a war regarded in Vietnam as ‘the American War’, and so the crew were only permitted to film under the supervision of a Government appointed minder. Ham: "On the 28th April 1975, Radio America played the secret signal for remaining CIA agents to evacuate. In time all was subsumed by American national pride. On Sky Cinema. One Direction: All the Way to the Top (FULL MOVIE) - YouTube All the Way is a 2016 American biographical television drama film based on events during the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson. At about the 29 minute mark of the DVD, it's on to the chief glory of Australia's military operations in Vietnam, the battle of Long Tan, in which 105 Australians and three New Zealanders ended up taking on a vastly superior Viet Cong force in a rubber plantation (at least 15 times their size suggests Ham - the battle has attracted its own documentary, listed at Ozmovies here). "All the Way with LBJ" was the chant, and some excellent insight into the man, his politics (including, of course, his outright lies) and his life in general make for a very interesting film. “But under the watchful eye of our government minder and the local communist cadres, we eventually got the permission we needed to film in the Highlands”. The next part of the journey was Washington DC, where the crew interviewed Dr. John Nagl, an expert on counter intelligence warfare who is currently advising President Obama on the Afghanistan War. Nearly five decades on, the traces of war are not immediately obvious – so it was no surprise that some sites were a little harder to find than others. But then pressure came for the Australians to resume joint operations and as Ham puts it, they were drawn back into the US meat grinder, "and this time they would be used as tethered goats by the Americans.". And it reveals for the first time a brutal Australian expert in guerrilla warfare who trained local Vietnamese to murder thousands of their fellow civilians in his own personal crusade to stop the spread of atheistic Communism. "I wanted to write a popular history, not a populist history. Ham, who had been investments editor of Rupert Murdoch's Sunday Times, came, too, securing one of the best part-time jobs in journalism: Australian correspondent for The Sunday Times. In all, says Ham, 15,381 conscripts, National Servicemen or Nashos, would go to Vietnam. "All The Way Home" - Documentary. Budget: n/a, but Screen Australia invested $230,000 in this NDP film and the ABC's commitment would also have been significant; Screen NSW invested $50,000 by way of production finance in round 30, year 2010 of its investment program. "President Quát didn't want them. Next Episode. 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