Bombies

NEW DOCS

The United States’s secret air campaign in Laos during the Vietnam War was a crime unto itself, as well as the continuation of bombing afterwards is a horrific atrocity. The Laotian landscape captured in this film is simultaneously beautiful and frightening—an environment where unexploded cluster “bombies” pepper the terrain and still claim the lives of children and farmers nearly three decades after the end of the “shooting war.” This documentary explores the effects of the unfinished war and the international campaign to ban cluster bombs, which are still a staple of the American military arsenal.  TAW

Director

Jack Silberman

Producer

Jack Silberman

Release Year

2001

Festival Year

2002

Country

Canada

Run Time

57 minutes