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Publisher
Creation Films & Entertainment Radio
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Half a century since it officially began, America is still trying to come to terms with the Vietnam War and its monstrous effects. This stunning commemorative documentary exposes the war as it was, from the background, to the battleground, with a detailed look at the many military units that were deployed.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"April 1975. During the chaotic final days of the Vietnam War, as the North Vietnamese Army closed in on Saigon, the South Vietnamese resistance crumbled. The United States had only a skeleton crew of diplomats and military operatives still in the country. With the lives of thousands of South Vietnamese hanging in the balance, those in control faced an impossible choice -- who would go and who would be left behind to face brutality, imprisonment or...
Publisher
Ride the Thunder Productions LLC
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The storyline follows Captain John Ripley and Major Le Ba Binh as they fight together against the communists during the Vietnam War and then the ensuing aftermath of the fall of Vietnam as Ripley goes home to a divided America and Binh is imprisoned in a Communist re-education camp. As Binh struggles to stay alive, Ripley passionately tries to tell America the truth of the war while their wives struggle with their changed lives.
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Lt. Col. Hal Moore is the commander of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry. As part of the Pleiku Campaign of late 1965, Moore is assigned to action at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley, an area known to be overrun by North Vietnamese troops and nicknamed "The Valley of Death." Moore soon finds himself and his men contained to an area about the size of a football field, surrounded by more than 2,000 enemy troops and engaged in the first major...
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003]
Language
English
Description
A story that led to the events of the United States military involvement in Vietnam. Here, a love triangle between a British journalist, his mistress, and a mysterious CIA operative evolves into a much greater mystery that eventually leads to murder and deception.
7) Bat*21
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
Vietnam, 1968. A true story of a middle-aged air force officer, LTC Iceal Hambleton, who's never seen combat before. He is stranded behind enemy lines and all he can do is wait and hope. Then a voice crackles over his radio, and he has found a friend.
8) Noble
Publisher
Aspiration Media
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of Christina Noble, who leaves the slums of her childhood in Ireland to work for the welfare of the street children of Vietnam.
9) Air America
Language
English
Description
Two renegade pilots are ensnared in the madness of covert operations over Laos during the Vietnam conflict. They lead the crew of Air America, a not-so-secret airline that drops everything from live pigs to opium over villages throughout the Vietnamese countryside.
10) The third wife
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
Vietnamese
Description
In nineteenth-century rural Vietnam, fourteen-year-old May becomes the third wife of wealthy landowner Hung. Soon, she learns that she can only gain status by asserting herself as a woman who can give birth to a male child. May's hope to change her status turns into a real and tantalizing possibility when she gets pregnant. Faced with forbidden love and its devastating consequences, May finally comes to an understanding of the brutal truth: the options...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Missing in action: American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam - and it's up to a one-man invincible army, Colonel James Braddock, to bring them home.
Missing in action 2: In this prequel to Missing in action, Colonel Braddock and five of his men are captured and placed in a torturous work camp ruled by a ruthless, maniacal warden, until Braddock seizes an opportunity to spring into action and free his men at any cost.
Braddock,...
Publisher
WGBH Educational Foundation
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Examines the critical events that took place in the fall of 1967, from the ambush of an American battalion by the Viet Cong that led to skepticism of whether the Vietnamese conflict was winnable, to the first violent anti-war demonstration on a campus in Wisconsin.
13) Cutter's way
Series
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
When his best friend is accused of murder, a Vietnam veteran tries to solve the case.
14) Hamburger Hill
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
For ten days, the American soldiers of Bravo Company fight in Vietnam to take over Hill 937, also known as Hamburger Hill.
15) The last season
Publisher
First Run
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
Follows two veterans of different wars as they search for the elusive matsutake mushroom in Oregon.
16) Dead presidents
Publisher
Hollywood Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
"On the streets, they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war, only to find himself drawn into a life of crime. With the aid of his fellow vets he plans the ultimate heist--a daring robbery of an armored car filled with unmarked U.S. currency!"--Container.
18) Ulee's gold
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
A Florida beekeeper escapes one battle only to find himself in another as a long-buried secret threatens his family and his livelihood.
20) The Vietnam War
Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
"The Vietnam War: A Film by Ken Burns and Lynn Novick : Ken Burns and Lynn Novick's ten-part, 18-hour documentary series, The Vietnam War, tells the epic story of one of the most consequential, divisive, and controversial events in American history as it has never before been told on film. Visceral and immersive, the series explores the human dimensions of the war through revelatory testimony of nearly 80 witnesses from all sides -- Americans who...
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