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      An Unlikely Weapon

      2008 1h 25m Documentary List
      73% 15 Reviews Tomatometer 73% 500+ Ratings Audience Score Director Susan Morgan's Kiefer Sutherland--narrated documentary spans all of Pulitzer Prize--winning photographer Eddie Adams' career, from his days shooting celebrities for "Time" magazine to the time he spent snapping world-renowned images of the Vietnam War. Morgan focuses closely on the latter, using interviews with Adams and media figures like Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings to explore the ramifications of Adams's most indelible photo -- a U.S. general executing a Vietcong guerrilla. Read More Read Less

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      Audience Member Fascinating doc on the photographer and his famous photo--and so much more. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Fascinating doc on the photographer and his famous photo--and so much more. Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 02/07/23 Full Review Audience Member If you like photography, you should definitely see this! There are so many images out there we see so often and don't really think about. Well, this shows they probably came from Eddie Adams's lens. He's pretty much the man. Rated 4 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Audience Member Solid documentary chronicles the fascinating and continually surprising life and career of photographer Eddie Adams. Well-made, though it did go on a bit too long and some of the interviews were lacking - it could have been more effective if there was more of Adams speaking himself, as those were the most compelling parts. Rated 3 out of 5 stars 01/28/23 Full Review Audience Member I was intrigued with this man's art and how he used it to promote peace around the world. It was amazing to see film coverage of Eddie Adams mingling with Fidel Castro as if they were old friends. Rated 4.5 out of 5 stars 01/22/23 Full Review Audience Member wowwwwwwwww this is bomb Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 01/19/23 Full Review Read all reviews Post a rating

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      Joshua Land Time Out Rated: 3/5 Nov 17, 2011 Full Review Betsy Sharkey Los Angeles Times A picture of a complex mind with a gift for capturing humanity and inhumanity with heartbreaking force. Rated: 4/5 Jul 10, 2009 Full Review Lisa Kennedy Denver Post As chock-full of insights -- from Peter Jennings, Peter Arnett, Gordon Parks among others -- it is the famed war photojournalist's works that still create space to be startled, to be rewired. Jul 3, 2009 Full Review Richard Propes TheIndependentCritic.com I dare say that the film would have likely looked much better had Adams himself been behind the camera. Rated: 1.5/4.0 Sep 26, 2020 Full Review Avi Offer NYC Movie Guru Those previously unfamiliar with Eddie Adams will be mostly fascinated and somewhat intrigued, but, for everyone else, An Unlikely Weapon serves merely as a pedantic, Reader's Digest version of Adams' career rather than as truly revealing and illuminating Rated: 5.75/10 Apr 11, 2009 Full Review Frank Lovece Film Journal International Documentary about the Pulitzer Prize-winning photojournalist and celebrity-portrait photographer Eddie Adams, whose image of a 1968 street execution in Saigon became an icon of the Vietnam War. Apr 10, 2009 Full Review Read all reviews

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      Synopsis Director Susan Morgan's Kiefer Sutherland--narrated documentary spans all of Pulitzer Prize--winning photographer Eddie Adams' career, from his days shooting celebrities for "Time" magazine to the time he spent snapping world-renowned images of the Vietnam War. Morgan focuses closely on the latter, using interviews with Adams and media figures like Tom Brokaw and Peter Jennings to explore the ramifications of Adams's most indelible photo -- a U.S. general executing a Vietcong guerrilla.
      Director
      Susan Morgan
      Screenwriter
      Isaac Hagy, Susan Morgan
      Production Co
      Morgan Cooper Productions
      Genre
      Documentary
      Original Language
      English
      Release Date (Streaming)
      May 2, 2019
      Runtime
      1h 25m