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Public Enemy Number One

1981NR1h7.2

Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett reported the Vietnam War from the perspective of the North Vietnamese. For this he was reviled as a traitor and a communist in the Australian media. He had been the first journalist into Hiroshima after the atom bomb, and he covered wars in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. Filmmaker David Bradbury interviews Burchett in his later years and intercuts the interview with archival footage and still photographs. Burchett is seen in newsreel coverage and in footag...

Info about Public Enemy Number One

Studio(s): Australian Film Commission

Originally Released: Jan 01, 1981

Production Country: Australia

Genres:Biography, Documentary, War