Pilots in Pyjamas (Part Four: Phantoms and the Thunderchiefs)

Media type: E-Book; Video
Title: Pilots in Pyjamas (Part Four: Phantoms and the Thunderchiefs)
Contributor: Heynowski, Walter; Scheumann, Gerhard [Director]; Billhardt, Thomas [Other]; Donth, Horst [Other]; Prokop, Gert [Editor]; Petersen, Peter [Editor]; Bredemeyer, Reiner [Other]; Mittag, Hans-Jürgen [Other]; Martsch, Walter [Other]; Stoff, Jochen [Other]; Risner, James Robinson [Interviewee]; Alvarez, Everett, Jr [Interviewee]; Thorsness, Leo K, [Interviewee]; Hubbard, Edward L, [Interviewee]; Mullis, Billy [Narrator]; Friedman, Searle [Narrator]
Corporation: DEFA ; Adam Matthew Digital (Firm)
Published: Marlborough, Wiltshire: Adam Matthew Digital, 2017
Published in: Socialism on Film
Pilots in Pyjamas
The Vietnam War & Southeast Asia
Wars & Revolutions
Extent: 1 Online-Ressource (video file 1:25:19); Sound, Black and White
Language: English
Keywords: Internet videos ; Nonfiction films
Origination:
Recording information: Contributors: Billhardt, Thomas; Donth, Horst; Prokop, Gert; Petersen, Peter; Bredemeyer, Reiner; Mittag, Hans-Jürgen; Martsch, Walter; Stoff, Jochen
Footnote: Archive Reference: N-507225
Reproduction of GDR (German Democratic Republic), 1969 16mm Comb B/W pos
Description: Fourth and final part of a series investigating the capture of American pilots shot down over North Vietnam. [WARNING: includes brief scenes of dead bodies.]

Several American POWs, including Colonel James Risner, are questioned about their time in Vietnam, their political ideals and their past, with the filmmakers ultimately dismissing the Americans as indifferent. A Vietnamese pilot discusses shooting down Phantoms in defence of the nation, and the documentary ends with a montage of North Vietnamese fighters capturing fallen pilots, including future US Senator John McCain

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