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2) 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.
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of a squad of soldiers caught in the moral quagmire of wartime Vietnam. Witness to a vile crime, Private Ericksson (Michael J. Fox) is forced to stand alone against his fellow soldiers and commanding officer Sergeant Meserve (Sean Penn). Master filmmaker Brian DePalma creates a devastating and unforgettable tale of one man's quest for sanity and justice amidst the chaos of war.
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.
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.
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
Universal
Pub. Date
[2024]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them a damaged, brainy troublemaker, and with the school's head cook, who has just lost a son in Vietnam.
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.
12) 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.
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...
14) Apocalypse now
Series
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[1999]
Language
English
Description
A United States Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War.
16) 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.
17) 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...
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
Roadside Attractions
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
The true story of William Pitsenbarger, an Air Force medic who saved more than sixty men in one of the bleakest battles of the Vietnam War. Presented the chance to escape on the last helicopter, Pitsenbarger stayed behind to save and defend his comrade in arms. Twenty years later, Pitsenbarger's fellow soldiers and father seek the help of investigator Scott Huffman and other surviving veterans to finally secure him The Congressional Medal of Honor...
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