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John Huston’s long-suppressed documentary about post-WWII PTSD will finally be made available on the web today. When the War Department banned it from civilian circulation in 1946, James Agee wrote, “I don’t know what is necessary to reverse this disgraceful decision, but if dynamite is required, then dynamite is indicated.” And Agee was a good man, so he probably wasn’t just saying that because he worked for The Nation at the time.

Watch it  here .


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