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Yorktown The Meaning of a Victory

Yorktown The Meaning of a Victory
NR 1 hr 25 minDocumentary
Commissioned by French TV Yorktown covers the bicentennial commemoration of the Siege of Yorktown near the end of the American Revolutionary War where the Americans and their French allies defeated the English The festivities celebrating FrancoAmerican friendship give Ophüls some amusement as he takes a gleefully ironic look at the formally friendly meeting between Mitterand and Reagan or exposes the absurdity of patriotic folklore

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Original Language:English