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Publisher
PBS Distribution
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
In an immersive 360-degree narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. The Vietnam War features testimony from nearly 80 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides. Six years in the making, the series brings the war and the chaotic epoch it encompassed viscerally...
Publisher
Platinum Disc Corp
Pub. Date
c2002
Language
English
Description
Teenage bride Kathy Emilio (Bertinelli) becomes a war widow when her husband, Marine Lt. John Emilio (Romano) is killed in Vietnam. Her attempt to piece together her life and rebuild her future is complicated by the development of a romantic relationship with a civilian recreation director at Camp Pendleton (Parker).
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c [2009]
Language
English
Description
A drama of love and courage set against the fierce background of a war that U.S. history keeps trying to sweep out of sight. Navy nurse Deborah Solomon is the girl that Jardian finds in his moment of greatest despair. She's the first thing about Vietnam that makes any sense to him and he'll do anything to be with her. So Jardian breaks the soldier's prime rule of survival--he volunteers.
Publisher
Pure Flix
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
With the Vietnam War raging in 1969, two young fathers report for duty: a man of great faith and a doubtful cynic. A quarter-century later, their sons, Wayne and John Paul, meet as strangers. Guided by handwritten letters from their fathers from the battlefield, they embark on an unforgettable journey to The Wall -the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Along the way, they discover the devastation of war cannot break the love of a father...
11) Platoon
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
Follows young Chris Taylor who arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that his worst enemies are not just the Viet Cong, but gnawing fear, physical exhaustion, and the anger growing within himself.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The program examines the Latino experience during a war that placed its heaviest burden on working class youth and their communities. Framing the documentary are memoirs of two siblings, Everett and Delia Alvarez, who stood on opposite sides of the Vietnam War, one as a POW and the other protesting at home. During the war, Latinos began asking for the first time: What is the true cost of war and the appropriate price of citizenship?
Publisher
Maverick Entertainment
Pub. Date
2004
Language
English
Description
An emotional drama about Puerto Rican soldiers in the Vietnam War told through the interconnected stories of Carlos and Raul, a Puerto Rican draftee and his volunteer sargeant; of Carlos' mother and sister in Puerto Rico; and of Esteban, a fellow soldier whose tour of duty ends permitting him to return to Puerto Rico.
14) 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.
15) Platoon
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Pub. Date
©2000
Language
English
Description
Platoon is the story of every soldier whose innocence was lost in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam. Chris Taylor arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that his worst enemies are not just the Viet Cong, but gnawing fear, physical exhaustion and the anger growing within himself.
16) Jacob's ladder
Publisher
Artisan Entertainment
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
Jacob is a man living in a nightmare. Having survived Vietnam, he's back home in New York City. But memories of both his wartime demons and the accidental death of his son haunt and terrorize him. Jacob's grip on reality begins to slip and only his friend can save him.
17) Danger close
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
August 18, 1966 South Vietnam, for three and a half hours, in the pouring rain, amid the mud of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, Major Harry Smith and his company of 108 young and inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting for their lives, holding off an overwhelming force of 2,000 battle-hardened Viet Cong. With their ammunition running out, each man begins to search for his own answer and the strength to triumph over an uncertain...
18) The deer hunter
Series
Publisher
Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the cool hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. Shows what happens to friendship and courage under stress.
Series
Weapons of war volume 46
Publisher
International Masters Publishers
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
Young, inexperienced and usually drafted into service, "grunts" fought the ground battles in the jungles of Vietnam. Explore the kits used by these grunts, including classics such as the M16. Understand the critical battles of the conflict, witness the tactics of the infantry and special forces units, and discover some of the problems grunts faced when they went "back in the real world."
20) Nearly forgotten
Publisher
Dreamscape Media, LLC
Pub. Date
[2013]
Language
English
Description
A once-tormented man looks back on his life's tragedies as a son, a father, a husband, and a United States Marine and returns to his past to reconcile his life.
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