Catalog Search Results
1) Platoon
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.
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 fought...
Series
Criterion collection volume 156
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen version ; RSDL Dual-layer edition.
Language
English
Description
Examines the American involvement in Vietnam, and is a chronicle of the war from a psychological perspective. Includes interviews with General William Westmoreland, former Secretary of Defense Clark Clifford, Senator William Fulbright, Walt Rostow, and Daniel Ellsberg, as well as American Vietnam veterans and Vietnamese leaders. Presidents Truman, Kennedy, Johnson, and Nixon are shown in rare footage.
Pub. Date
2001.
Language
English
Description
"After fleeing the English suburbs to wander through Asia as a young hippie, Tim Page joined a ragtag band of photographers in Vietnam willing to take enormous risks. Now, the legendary photojournalist returns to Vietnam, the land where he nearly lost his life, to seek out photographers from the other side, learn more about the war, and rescue remarkable pictures long hidden by time and tragedy."--
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Journey deep behind battle lines to experience a different side of the Vietnam War - the side seen only through the lenses of North Vietnam photographers. Renowned British photojournalist Tim Page travels back to the land where he nearly lost his life to meet with North Vietnamese war photographers, revealing remarkable, never-before-seen photos and personal stories long hidden by time and tragedy.
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
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.
10) In country
Pub. Date
2016, c1989.
Language
English
Description
Samantha Hughes, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha wants to find out about her father and his experiences, but her Uncle Emmett and other vets don't want to talk about the war. When Samantha reads her father's diary, she begins to understand what his life and death meant.
11) Uncommon valor
Series
Pub. Date
[2001]
Language
English
Description
"For over ten years, [Colonel Jason] Rhodes has been living a nightmare searching for his son who is listed as "missing in action" in Vietnam. After useless appeals to the government for information, Rhodes takes matters into his own hands. With financial backing of a Texas oil tycoon ... and the help of his son's five Marine buddies, Rhodes prepares to carry out a daring mission. After weeks of grueling training, the courageous veterans leave for...
12) We were soldiers
Series
Pub. Date
[2002]
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Lt. Col. Hal Moore is the commander of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry. As part of the Pleiku Campaign of late 1965, Moore is assigned to action at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley, an area known to be overrun by North Vietnamese troops and nicknamed "The Valley of Death." Moore soon finds himself and his men contained to an area about the size of a football field, surrounded by more than 2,000 enemy troops and engaged in the first major...
14) Getting straight
Series
Pub. Date
[2009]
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
When violence breaks out on campus, a graduate student and former Vietnam vet must decide between saving his academic career or returning to his former activism.
Language
English
Description
Heroic, daring and more than just a little colorful, The A-Team is a brave band of brothers who will stop at nothing to get the bad guys. Pile into that famous black van for another season of adventure with Hannibal, Face, Murdock and B.A. as they fight for justice against criminals, while staying one step ahead of their archenemy, Colonel Decker.
16) 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.
17) Jacknife
Pub. Date
2006.
Edition
Full screen.
Language
English
Description
Fifteen years after the Vietnam War, Dave is haunted by the memory of his buddy Bobby's death and has become a reclusive drunk. Then fellow veteran Joe arrives, set on changing their lives.
Pub. Date
[1998]
Language
English
Description
The story of LTC John Paul Vann (Paxton) and his work as a military and civilian advisor in Vietnam over a ten year period (1962-72) until his death in an accidental helicopter crash. As a military advisor, Vann attempted to fight corruption in the Vietnamese army, recognizing the need to build trust among the Vietnamese peasantry. When his recommendations were ignored by the U.S. military, he exposed falsified battle reports and other deceptions...
19) Handsome Harry
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
'Handsome' Harry Sweeney, a 52-year-old Vietnam veteran, is convinced to seek forgiveness from a comrade he betrayed long ago, David Kagan. As the road stretches out before Harry, we see the full effect that this long ago crime has had on his life. Only through confronting the events of his distant past, and finally confronting David himself, can Harry truly begin to live again.
20) Stray dog
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A portrait of a motorcycle-riding, freedom-loving, Vietnam veteran cast in the mold of an outlaw biker. The film follows Stray Dog as he caravans on his Harley with fellow vets to pay tribute to their fallen brothers at the Vietnam Memorial. Meanwhile, back home in southern Missouri where he owns and operates an RV Park populated by a community on the margins, he forges a new life of domesticity with his Mexican wife Alicia.
Interlibrary Loan
Didn't find what you need? Items not owned by Main Library Alliance members might be available in other libraries across New Jersey. You can search JerseyCat and place a request for the item to be sent to your library.
If your library doesn't permit JerseyCat requests or the item can't be found, you can also contact your library for assistance.Didn't find it?
Can't find what you are looking for? Try our Materials Request Service. Submit Request