An Unlikely Weapon

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An Unlikely Weapon

2008

1h 25m

Documentary

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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.

Betsy Sharkey

Los Angeles Times

07/10/2009

4/5

A picture of a complex mind with a gift for capturing humanity and inhumanity with heartbreaking force.

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Lisa Kennedy

Denver Post

07/03/2009

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.

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John Anderson

Variety

04/24/2009

It's their reminiscences that are the most poignant and revealing about a man who seems, in Cooper's interviews, to have done all he could to conceal himself.

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Richard Propes

TheIndependentCritic.com

09/26/2020

1.5/4.0

I dare say that the film would have likely looked much better had Adams himself been behind the camera.

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Avi Offer

NYC Movie Guru

04/11/2009

5.75/10

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

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10/31/2012

Fascinating doc on the photographer and his famous photo--and so much more.

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08/21/2012

Fascinating doc on the photographer and his famous photo--and so much more.

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11/10/2009

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.

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07/18/2009

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.

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07/12/2009

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.

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04/11/2009

wowwwwwwwww this is bomb

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Susan Morgan

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Kiefer Sutherland

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Isaac Hagy

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Cindy Lou Adkins

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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
Producer: Cindy Lou Adkins, 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