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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304008669
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, NTSC
ISBN: 630400866X
Label: Turner Home Ent
Manufacturer: Turner Home Ent
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Turner Home Ent
Release Date: February 10, 1998
Running Time: 97 minutes
Sales Rank: 18902
Studio: Turner Home Ent
Theatrical Release Date: December 10, 1995
Editorial Review:
Description:
A dramatization of the relationship between Kissinger and Nixon during the six-month period in 1972-73 when Kissinger was negotiating an end to the Vietnam War and Nixon was grandstanding politically.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Animal Husbandry versus U.S. President
This nonfiction work on both Kissinger and Nixon is hard to believe that it really happend. I am 12 years old and wasn't alive when either one of these guys was President (I guess Kissinger was just Vice-President). When plutonians entered my grandma, you could tell right away with the glowing eyes and all of the messages and stuff that she could put in my brain. And then Kissinger also had a grandma and he also wasn't from the U.S. So, it is so obvious that Kissinger and Nixon were both plutonians ... Read More
Rating: - A COMPLEX SUBJECT HANDLED WELL.
Lionel Chetwynd's excellent script, based largely upon Walter Isaacson's biography of Henry Kissinger, cogently limns a primary motive for President Nixon's National Security Advisor's desire for ending American military involvement in Vietnam: desire for private power. The film essentially addresses that period in 1972/3 when Nixon and Kissinger worked together, despite obvious tension between them, to bring the war to an end. The President did not want a peace settlement until directly before the 1972 ... Read More
Rating: - My guilty pleasure
Along with Oliver Stone's feature film "Nixon", this TNT made-for-TV flick is one of my most passionate guilty pleasures. This is not a great film by any standard. It lacks star power, the acting is mediocre, the script seems hackneyed, the history has been called into question by scholars all over the place, and the Vietnamese portions of the film are completely unbelievable. Still, this movie is one of my greatest joys. Why? I went to college during the Nixon presidency and Watergate. I was a college student ... Read More
Rating: - Kissinger and Nixon and the complexity of politics
I've never followed the history of Henry Kissinger until recently. Now I'm determined to learn as much as I can. Perhaps that's because he's so much in the news these days. Perhaps its because I just saw a documentary film about him that painted him as an evil war criminal. And perhaps its just because I just want to know everything.
This 1995 Turner Classic video focuses on the Paris peace talks in 1972 and the roles of Kissinger and Nixon to try to bring the Vietnam war to a conclusion. It stars ... Read More
Rating: - Impressive
I'm probably not alone here, but I must confess that I often use politically themed movies as a bit of a history lesson. There are always going to be certain caveats that one must keep in mind--political bias, dramatic license, etc. But if one remembers that what one is viewing is indeed a fiction, usually some essential truths are revealed. In this case it would be the level of animosity that existed between Richard Nixon and Henry Kissinger. The Amazon critic above describes it as a "love/hate relationship with ... Read More
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