‘The Mills of the Gods’ at 50: The Groundbreaking Vietnam War Documentary Is Still Shocking

Written by Daniel Walber

In 1964, Canadian filmmaker Beryl Fox went to Vietnam on behalf of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. She’d just finished Summer in Mississippi, a critically acclaimed documentary on the American South during the Civil Rights Movement. This jump from the domestic frying pan into the fire of international intervention wasn’t easy. Fox had to fight pu…