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Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
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...
5) Absolution
Author
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"A riveting account of women's lives on the margins of the Vietnam War, from the renowned winner of the National Book Award"--
Author
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Description
"A comprehensive look at the Vietnam War"--
More than forty years after it ended, the Vietnam War continues to haunt our country. We still argue over why we were there, whether we could have won, and who was right and wrong in their response to the conflict. This volume draws on hundreds of interviews in America and Vietnam to give us the perspectives of people involved at all levels of the war: U.S. and Vietnamese soldiers and their families, high-level...
Author
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
Vietnam became the Western world's most divisive modern conflict, precipitating a battlefield humiliation for France in 1954, then a vastly greater one for the United States in 1975. Max Hastings has spent the past three years interviewing scores of participants on both sides, as well as researching a multitude of American and Vietnamese documents and memoirs, to create an epic narrative of an epic struggle. He portrays the set pieces of Dienbienphu,...
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.
17) Rescue dawn
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
When U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler escapes death after being shot down over one of the most intense front lines in the Vietnam War, his troubles were just beginning. He is taken captive by the Vietnamese Army and is forced to endure a harrowing stint in a Vietnamese prison camp. Dengler and a small band of his fellow captives stage a death-defying escape. Based on a true story.
18) Love and honor
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
After being dumped by his girlfriend, a solider returns home from Vietnam and tries to win her back.
Series
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Presented are some of America's best war films that feature a comprehensive set on the U.S. Marines in WWII, Korea, and Vietnam. These are the original films as they were shot and feature real war footage documentaries that have been preserved by the National Archives of the United States.
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