THE GARDNER DOCUMENTARY GROUP



"A must-see documentary"..."A catalyst to a much-needed national conversation on Agent Orange" - NEWSDAY

At Tu Du Hospital in Saigon, babies in a special unit have enlarged heads or are missing limbs. Pham thi thuy Linh, born without arms, writes with her feet. A boy with a shrunken leg careens around the corridor in a wheelchair. Thirty years after the end of the Vietnam war, they are among several millions of victims of Agent Orange

In The Last Ghost of War, we meet victims who are plaintiffs in a class action suit against 32 US chemical companies. Attorneys, activists and scientists take us to a new battlefield.

These Vietnamese victims are seeking compensation and justice. The question is were these dioxin-laden herbicides chemical weapons? And if so, who should be held accountable in the wake of what was allegedly the largest chemical warfare operation in history?


Narrated by Kevin Kline, Produced by Pham Quoc Thai and Janet Gardner, directed by Ms. Gardner. Press Articles: Agent Orange Alert - Newsday May, 7, 2007 Film shows Agent Orange still Withers Lives- Philadelphia Inquirer April, 3, 2007 Film Documents War's Appalling Legacy - The Star - Ledger, February 23, 2007 Public Screenings with Q&A to follow will be held at: RUTGERS UNIVERSITY: Saturday, Feb. 24th 2007, 2:00-4:00 pm Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum , 71 Hamilton Street, Old Queens campus - New Brunswick RIDER UNIVERSITY: Wednesday, March 28th 2007, 7 pm Sweigert Business Auditorium Room 115, 2083 Lawrenceville Road, Lawrenceville, N. J. TEMPLE UNIVERSITY: Tuesday, April 3rd 2007, 3 pm Philadelphia, PA PRINCETON UNIVERSITY: Saturday, April 7th 2007, 2:00-4:00 pm McCormick Hall Room 101, off Washington Road on Nassau Street campus. HARVARD UNIVERSITY: Friday, April 20th 2007, 6:30 pm Taubman Building, Weiner Auditorium, John F. Kennedy School of Government, 79 JFK Street, Cambridge, MA. ASIA SOCIETY: Tuesday, May 1st 2007, 6:30 - 8 pm 725 Park Ave. at 70th St. New York City. Panel discussion and reception to follow JOHN JAY COLLEGE OF CRIMINAL JUSTICE: Wednesday, May 2nd 2007, 5:00 pm and 6:15 pm, Hall 630T, 899 10th Avenue, New York, NY PRINCETON HUMAN RIGHTS FESTIVAL: Saturday, May 12th 2007, 1:30 pm, Princeton Public Library, 65 Witherspoon St. Princeton, NJ CANTOR FILM CENTER: Monday June 11th 2007, 6:30 pm 36 E. 8th Street, New York, NY NEW JERSEY VIETNAM VETERANS MEMORIAL & VIETNAM EDUCATION CENTER: Saturday, November 3rd 2007, 1 pm 1 Memorial Lane, Holmdel, NJ
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This film was made possible by a grant from the New Jersey Council for the Humanities, a state partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities.	The Last Ghost of War is a presentation of the Center for Asian American Media. Funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.