The Black Road: on the front line of Aceh's war
Clip 3: Journalism in action
1 min 30 sec
Taken from the documentary The Black Road: on the front line of Aceh's war (2005)
Original title classification MA – this clip chosen to be PG
Availability of the complete title
This clip contains images of dead soldiers in a battlefield.
Curator’s clip description
Journalist William Nessen is filming with the Acehnese rebels and is nearly killed. He decided to surrender to the Indonesian army.
Curator’s notes
Astonishing footage from within firefights, as the journalist travels with the independence fighters. This was one of the first really dramatic uses of the new lightweight broadcast quality video cameras.
Damien Parer, curator







