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1 online resource (streaming video file) (47 min. 35 sec.) ; 287128814 bytes |
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The Real M*A*S*H traces the original stories and people that inspired the long-running television series and Robert Altman's 1970 feature film about the Korean War. Both pushed buttons on cultural and social frontiers but real life MASH (Mobile Army Surgical Hospital) units were actually more like renegade units unto themselves and early indicators of the social turmoil and tensions that were to unfold later in the USA.Interviews with M*A*S*H actors, including Jamie Farr, Loretta Swit and Gary Burghoff, surgeons, doctors, nurses, pilots and enlisted men who served in the Korean war are blended with dramatic recreations, archival film and rare photographs to tell the true stories behind the entertainment franchise.War is infamous for throwing unlikely bedfellows under the same roof. But MASH units pushed those boundaries even further. Female nurses worked on the front-lines for the first time. African-American nurses, surgeons and medics staffed the MASH unit. The make-up of MASH units anticipated wide- spread social changes that would shake the status quo back home decades later.When asked how authentic the show was in portraying the reality of life on the frontlines in a medic station, the oft heard response is that, though well researched, the show was entertainment, whereas war was a horror-show.(From Canada) (Documentary) M (A) CC Follow the conversation on Twitter #SBSdoco |
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Broadcast 2012-03-16 at 21:30:00 |
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Classification: M |
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Korean War (1950-1953)
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Medical personnel.
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Military hospitals.
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Mobile hospitals.
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Surgeons.
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United States.
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Korea.
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Streaming video
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Lee, Min Sook, director
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Biggs, Ted, cast
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Axelrod, Irvin, contributor
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Blount, Alvin V., contributor
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Burghoff, Gary, contributor
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Drake, Cathy, contributor
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Drake, Dale W, contributor
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Farr, Jamie, contributor
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Gelfand, Samuel M, contributor
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Hornberger, William, contributor
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Horwitz, Mel, contributor
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Janie, Hall, contributor
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Kirkland, Richard C, contributor
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Reynolds, Gene, contributor
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Secor, Harold, contributor
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Stedman, William B., contributor
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Swit, Loretta, contributor
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Weinberg, Milton, contributor
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Wittebols, James H., contributor
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Ziegler, Ed, contributor
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