An Unlikely Weapon

They recorded atrocities and acts of valor, moments strikingly unique moments and utterly mundane.....Gordon Parks here describes the special pain of photographing death..... ... Full Review

The problem with An Unlikely Weapon is....Adams, one of the great American photojournalists, is more than deserving of a documentary tribute.....Unfortunately, for all its good intentions, An Unlikely Weapon is not that documentary..... ... Full Review

Adams made history with his 1968 photo of a South Vietnamese general executing a Viet Cong prisoner. "Saigon Execution" is widely considered one of the most influential images to come out of the Vietnam War. ... Full Article

Eddie Adams was best known as the Associated Press photographer who took the Pulitzer Prize-winning picture of a Saigon police chief shooting a Vietcong prisoner in the head at the start of the Vietnam War's Tet Offensive. ... Full Article

THREE MONKEYS After making two films (DISTANT and CLIMATES) that were largely haunting images strung together by a loose story, Turkish filmmaker Nuri Bilge Ceylan (who won Best Director at last year's Cannes Film Festival for this film) has assembled... ... Full Article

Eddie Adams made me weep long before I knew his name. With his camera he caught the faces of the Vietnam War: soldiers hardened too young, barefoot children with dead eyes, burned villages with smoke still hanging in the air,... ... Full Article

By Frank Lovece For movie details, please click here . Two photographs of the Vietnam War are saved to disk in our collective memory. One, by Associated Press photographer Huỳnh Công Út, known professionally as Nick Ut, shows a terrified,... ... Full Article

Documentary about renowned photographer Eddie Adams and his work. At the Quad (1:25). Not rated. One of those great, grizzled real-life characters, Eddie Adams was a photographer whose work chronicled war (his AP shot of a Vietcong soldier being assassinated... ... Full Article