US Edition10 movies that defined the Vietnam War on the big screen
- A collection of ten films marks the 50th anniversary of Saigon's fall.
- The Vietnam conflict significantly impacted American cinema over five decades.
- These films explore diverse perspectives, from protests to Vietnamese resistance.
- For example, Martin Scorsese directed a six-minute short film in 1967.
- The movies collectively illustrate the vast scale of the war's enduring traumas.
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10 movies that defined the Vietnam War on the big screen
The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across not just one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, but has led filmmakers for the past half century to reckon with its complicated legacy.
Vietnam War film ignites conversation among veterans
SIOUX FALLS, S.D. (KELO) -- It has been 50 years since the end of the Vietnam War. To honor the soldiers who served there, this weekend, KELOLAND TV will air Nexstar's latest special, "Vietnam War: A Lost Generation." A group of Vietnam veterans got to watch an early screening of the film Wednesday afternoon at the Military Heritage Alliance in Sioux Falls. Afterward, KELOLAND's Don Jorgensen hosted a panel discussion with four veterans who deta…
Expanding The Classics: Apocalypse Now - Final Cut
Welcome to Vietnam – a Hieronymus Bosch-like world where ideal surfing conditions can be found at the centre of a war zone, TV crews capture death as entertainment, Playboy bunnies leap in and out of helicopters and where Marlon Brando’s deranged Colonel Kurtz quote T.S. Eliot. Francis Ford Coppola’s hallucinatory world lures us into its insanity with groundbreaking sound design and an audacious scale of ambition. War has never been so spectacu…
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