Introduction Who’ll Stop the Rain is a 1978 American crime film directed by Karel Reisz and starring Nick Nolte, Tuesday Weld, Michael Moriarty, and Anthony Zerbe. The screenplay was by Judith Rascoe and Robert Stone, based on Stone’s novel Dog Soldiers (1974). Outline The film opens in Saigon at the height of the Vietnam War.… Read More
Introduction Purple Hearts is a 1984 war film directed by Sidney J. Furie and starring Ken Wahl and Cheryl Ladd. The screenplay concerns a Navy surgeon and a Navy nurse who fall in love while serving in Vietnam during the war. Their affection for one another provides a striking contrast to the violence of warfare.… Read More
Introduction Twenty weeks before Khe Sanh, these men were boys, sitting in their mother’s kitchens. Then they went to war. Outline Fourteen Marines and one Corpsman relive their journey from enlistment through the epic 77-day Siege of Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War. Just boys in 1968, they recount their ferocious experience in that wet… Read More
Introduction Shawn Kelley’s documentary memoir, My Father’s Brothers, recounts the events of 29 June 1966, when, during the Vietnam war, a platoon of American soldiers stumbled upon a large North Vietnamese force in the dense jungles northeast of Saigon. Outline 29 June 1966. During a routine patrol in the jungles of Vietnam, a platoon of… Read More
Introduction Vietnam, Texas is a 1990 action crime film by director Robert Ginty. Also known as Orange Curtain (working title, US) and also stylised Vietnam Texas. Outline A priest learns that he fathered a child during his tour of duty in Vietnam and that the mother and child has relocated to Houston, Texas in the… Read More
Introduction The Greatest Beer Run Ever is a 2022 American biographical action comedy film co-written and directed by Peter Farrelly based on the book of the same name by Joanna Molloy and John “Chickie” Donohue. The film stars Zac Efron, Russell Crowe and Bill Murray. Outline In 1967, John Donohue was a 26-year-old US Marine… Read More
Introduction Good Morning, Vietnam is a 1987 American war comedy film written by Mitch Markowitz and directed by Barry Levinson. Set in Saigon in 1965, during the Vietnam War, the film stars Robin Williams as a radio DJ on Armed Forces Radio Service, who proves hugely popular with the troops, but infuriates his superiors with… Read More
Introduction Love and Honour is a 2013 romantic drama film directed by Danny Mooney. It is Mooney’s feature-film directorial debut. The film, based on a true story of a Michigan soldier, takes place during the Vietnam War and is set in Ann Arbor and surrounding areas. The story follows a soldier who, after being dumped… Read More
Introduction A Soldier’s Sweetheart is a 1998 television film directed by Thomas Michael Donnelly and starring Kiefer Sutherland, Skeet Ulrich, and Georgina Cates. It is based on a short story by Tim O’Brien, “Sweetheart of the Song Tra Bong.”, which was also the working title. The story was part of his award-winning book, The Things… Read More
Introduction Journey from the Fall (Vietnamese: Vượt Sóng) is a 2006 independent film by writer/director/editor Ham Tran, about the Vietnamese re-education camp and boat people experience following the Fall of Saigon on 30 April 1975. Outline The film traces the story of a family’s struggle for survival in the aftermath of the Fall of Saigon… Read More
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