Catalog Search Results
Pub. Date
2015
Description
The TV series about the Vietnam War focuses on a single platoon of young U.S. soldiers. Full of thrilling combat action, this show portrays the dramatic human side of the war. In this second season, the fresh-faced recruits are becoming battle-weary fighters whose personal battles are just beginning amidst the daily grind of warfare.
43) Hamburger Hill
Pub. Date
c2008
Description
For ten days, the American soldiers of Bravo Company fight in Vietnam to take over Hill 937, also known as Hamburger Hill.
50) Ulee's gold
Pub. Date
[1999]
Description
A Florida beekeeper escapes one battle only to find himself in another as as long-buried secret threatens hos family and his livelihood.
Pub. Date
2014
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.
Author
Description
The 1960s was the decade America transformed from a country of conformity to a land of political, cultural, and social liberation. Looking through the lens of television, this production weaves together the events and personalities that influenced and dominated the 1960s in America, sketching a portrait of this remarkable decade that is both entertaining and illuminating.
Pub. Date
[2014]
Description
In an experimental government center for troubled Vietnam veterans, the inmates run the asylum. One works on an adaptation of Shakespeare ... for dogs. Another fancies himself a caped superhero. Still others masquerade as frogmen, nurses, nuns, pirates, doctors. Yet Colonel Hudson Kane, the psychiatrist in charge, eyes all with a stoic reserve. Maybe too stoic: there's a mystery here. And its final resolution is like a thunderclap.
55) The war
Pub. Date
c1999
Description
It's Mississippi, the summer of 1970, and two children are determined to build the ultimate treehouse with their friends, while their father, a newly returned Vietnam vet, has equally high hopes to rebuild his life.
Pub. Date
[2012].
Description
Apocalypse now: A soldier travels upriver from Vietnam into Cambodia to kill a colonel who has gone mad and is planning unauthorized attacks by his native troops.
Hamburger Hill: The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill, up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat.
Pub. Date
2005
Description
Tells the story of American fighter pilots shot down over North Vietnam and their sudden transformation from self-confident, top-gun aviators to prisoners of war confronting yeas of captivity. Includes never-before-seen footage from the archives of Vietnam and first person accounts of the hidden war behind prison walls.
Author
Pub. Date
c2017.
Formats
Description
In an immersive narrative, Burns and Novick tell the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Features testimony from nearly 100 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.
.png)