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Mr. Warner’s Movie List

84 Charlie Mopic A unique look at the Vietnam War in revealed through the subjective lens of a fictitious army motion picture (MoPic) cameraman. Highly recommended for a "realistic" presentation of a reconnaissance mission by a team of GIs in the Central Highlands in 1969. (95 minutes)

A Bright Shining Lie A U.S. senior military adviser is sent to Vietnam and finds himself fighting a war he cannot win alongside a corrupt and demoralized South Vietnamese Army. Based on the Pulitizer Prize and National Book Award winning book by , A Bright Shining Lie: John Paul Vann and America in Vietnam. (118 minutes)

Apocalypse ow 's 1979 provocative vision of the human "heart of darkness" revealed through the peculiar madness of the Vietnam War. A Army officer/trained assassin is sent into the depths of a southeast Asian jungle to seek out a renegade colonel and terminate his command during the Vietnam War. (153 minutes)

Apocalypse ow Redux Reissue of 1979 with restored footage edited out of original version. Even better (much better!) than the original; judged by some critics as the best film of 2001--even though it was made in 1979! (202 minutes)

Birdy To escape an irrational world, Birdy, an ex-Vietnam veteran sits in an almost catatonic state in an Army hospital where he has come to believe he is one of the feathered creatures of his boyhood dreams. In an effort to break Birdy's silence, his psychiatrist brings in Birdy's loyal, best friend of his youth as they attempt to reach him and bring him back to reality. Based on the novel "Birdy" by William Wharton.(120 minutes)

Born on the Fourth of July Based on the book by veteran Ron Kovic. Film follows him from his days as a zealous teen who eagerly joins for the Vietnam War, to his return from the war as an embittered veteran, paralyzed from mid-chest down. Chronicles his disillusionment with the country's continued involvement in Vietnam, his physical struggle and his emergence as a brave new voice for thousands of disenchanted vets. (145 minutes)

Bullet in the head Depicts the lives of three childhood friends from trapped in the turmoil of the Vietnam War--Tony Leung, , Waise Lee. Cantonese dialogue with optional soundtrack in Mandarin and optional subtitles in traditional Chinese, simplified Chinese, English, Japanese, Korean, Bahasa Malaysia and Spanish.Originally produced as a motion picture in 1990 (126 min)

Burn! Not about Vietnam, but meant to be a (1969) parable of the war. As described in the library annotation: "This story of political greed and social upheaval will take you on a journey deep into the heart of darkness of a 19th century Caribbean island, where men rise up in bitter and bloody rebellion against the wealthy nations seeking to enslave them." Particularly interesting for its portrayal of insurgency and counterinsurgency techniques, many of which seem familiar from the Vietnam War--despite the obvious differences in technology and ideology. Starring Marlon Brando. (113 minutes) Mr. Warner’s Vietnam War Movie List

Casualties of War Based on the true story of a squad of soldiers caught in the moral quagmire of wartime Vietnam. Witness to a vile crime, Private Ericksson (Michael J. Fox) is forced to stand alone against his fellow soldiers and commanding officer Sergeant Meserve (Sean Penn). Master filmmaker Brian DePalma creates a devastating and unforgettable tale of one man's quest for sanity and justice amidst the chaos of war. (120 minutes)

CBS playhouse presents The Final War of Olly Winter Script of teleplay originally aired: January 29, 1967 on CBS Writer: Ronald Ribman Director: Paul Bogart All Guest Stars: Ivan Dixon (Olly Winter), Tina Chen (Vietnamese Girl), Patrick Adiarte (Viet Cong guerilla), Kam Tong (Chief elder), Soon-Teck Oh, James Hong, Paulene Myers, Jane Betts, Sara Berner, Connie Sawyer, Richard Williams, Maidie Norman, Davis Roberts, Dort Clark, Rupert Crosse, Douglas Leonard Story about an African American soldier in Vietnam. It focuses on the past and present of a war-weary GI who, after 20 years of professional soldiering, begins a quest for life. Master Sergeant Olly Winter, winding up a long career, is serving as an advisor in Vietnam. When his platoon is ambushed by the Viet Cong, Olly, the only survivor, sets out on the long trek back to safety. Along the way he picks up company, a young Vietnamese girl, her dog, and an orphaned baby. The girl doesn't understand English, but Olly talks to her--and himself about the wars he's seen, his family, and the life he plans to lead 'If I get out of here alive.' Nominated for 5 Emmys.

China beach Series premiere of the multiple award winning television program about the nurses, entertainers and volunteers who served alongsideAmerican troops in Vietnam atthe China Beach recreational facility near the U.S. base at Da Nan. (97 min.)

Coming Home A poignant love story set against the social upheaval of the Vietnam war. Set in 1968, the story concerns a woman who, while her husband is serving in Vietnam, falls in love with a paraplegic while performing volunteer work at a San Diego veterans hospital. 1978. (128 minutes)

The Deer Hunter Tracks a group of steelworker pals from a Pennsylvania blast furnace to the hunting grounds of the Alleghenies to the lethal cauldron of Vietnam. It is a drama of friendship and courage and of what happens to these qualities under stress. Starring Robert De Niro, John Cazale, John Savage, Meryl Streep, Christopher Walken.Winner of 5 in 1978, including Best Picture.(183 Minutes)

Dịên Biên Ph̉ u Depicts one of history's pivotal battles, triggering 20 years of American involvement in Vietnam. In French. Spectacular musical score by George Delarue.Originally produced for French television in 1992. (125 min.)

First Blood John Rambo is a disoriented Vietnam Vet. He is hitchhiking from town to town to see friends from the war. A sheriff tries to make him leave town and when he refuses, arrests him for vagrancy. While in jail, a deputy takes delight in abusing him. Rambo escapes showing his old Vietnam fighting skills and takes to the woods as the sheriff and deputies try and find him in his element. Things get out of hand as Colonel Trautman Rambo's old commander appears to shed light on the situation. (93 min) Mr. Warner’s Vietnam War Movie List

Full Metal Jacket 1987 Vietnam war drama which begins with a depiction of the brutality of Marine Corps training and then shifts to Vietnam, focusing mainly on a group of Marines responding to the Tet Offensive of 1968. (117 minutes)

Gardens of Stone The elite Old Guard, made up of decorated veterans of Army service, tends Arlington National Cemetery; when a young soldier is assigned to the unit temporarily while training for a tour in Vietnam, two of the Guards help to prepare him for the environment of war, amid protest, uncertainty and violence at home.

Go Tell the Spartans Story about a hard-boiled major (Burt Lancaster) in command of a grubby Vietnam outpost in 1964. The war was still a 'conflict' and American soldiers were merely 'advisors.' Although the action concentrates on a single, obscure incident, the film illuminates the entire era. Based on the novel Incident at Muc Wa, by Daniel Ford. (114 minutes)

Good Morning, Vietnam Imported by the Army for an early morning radio show in Vietnam, disc jockey Adrian Cronauer (Robin Williams) blasts the formerly staid, sanitized airwaves with a constant barrage of rapid-fire humor and the hottest hits from back home. The G.I.'s love him, but the brass is up in arms. (121 mins.)

Green Dragon In 1975, refugee camps were set up across the deserts of the United States to house an exodus of over 100,000 Vietnamese immigrants before and immediately after the fall of Saigon. When Tai arrives at Camp Pendleton, he is confronted by a camp filled with despair. A Marine is in charge of housing the refugees until sponsors can be found to help them assimilate into American life. Tai, who speaks English, becomes a translator for the Marines. (112 minutes)

Hanoi Hilton A drama that details the brutal treatment of American P.O.W.s in Vietnamese prison camps. (126 minutes)

Heaven & Earth 1993 film based on the books "When heaven and earth changed places" by Le Ly Hayslip with Jay Wurts and "Child of war, woman of peace" by Le Ly Hayslip with James Hayslip. The powerful story of a man who fought, a woman who endured, and a love caught up in the explosive wartime upheaval in Vietnam. (140 minutes)

In Country A reclusive war veteran and his 17-year-old niece struggle to heal the wounds of Vietnam, where her father died. (116 minutes)

Indochine A beautiful and moving film that focuses on Eliane (played by Catherine Deneuve), a rubber plantation owner in French Indochina in the 1930s and her adopted Vietnamese daughter, who falls in love with a French naval officer and gets involved in the anti-colonial struggles of the times.DV. French with English subtitles; also available in VHS format without subtitles (PN1997 .I4839 1992). (158 minutes)

The Iron triangle Based on the diary of an unknown Vietcong soldier ; videocassette release of the 1988 motion picture Beau Bridges, Haing S. Ngor, Jim Ishida, Ping Wu, Iilana B'tiste, Johnny Hallyday, Liem Whatley. An American captain leads his men into the jungles along the Ho Chi Minh trail and meets the Viet Cong face-to-face. Told from both sides. (94 min.) Mr. Warner’s Vietnam War Movie List

Journey from the Fall Based on the true stories of Vietnamese refugees who fled after the fall of Saigon, April 30, 1975, and on the Vietnamese who stayed behind. Despite his allegiance to the toppled South Vietnamese government, Long Nguyen decides to remain in Vietnam. Imprisoned in a Communist re-education camp, he urges his family to make the escape by boat without him. His wife, son, and mother embark on the arduous ocean voyage in the hope of reaching the U.S. and freedom. (135 min.)

The Killing Fields Based on the book "The Death and Life of " by Sydney Schanberg. Tells the true story of one man's ordeal in the hell of during the Pol Pot years. Winner of 3 Academy Awards in 1984. (142 minutes)

Missing in Action Colonel James Braddock is an American officer who spent seven years in a North Vietnamese POW camp, then escaped 10 years ago. After the bloodiest war, Braddock accompanies a government investigation team that goes to Ho Chi Minh City to check out reports of Americans still held prisoner. Braddock gets the evidence then travels to Thailand, where he meets Tuck, an old Army buddy turned black market kingpin. Together, they launch a mission deep into the jungle to free the American POWs from General Trau. (101 min)

Path to War Begins immediately following his victorious election to the Presidency, LyndonJohnson's dreams for "The Great Society" and his vision for civil rights in America was devastated by the impact of theVietnam War. A war he didn't start, but which he seemed unable to end. Torn betweenthe recommendation of increased bombing to win and a nation torn apart by thedeaths of young Americans overseas and the protest of those who stayed behindFeaturing.Michael Gambon, Donald Sutherland, Bruce McGill, James Frain, FelicityHuffman,FredericForrest, John Aylward, Philip Baker Hall, Tom Skerritt, Alec Baldwin. Specialfeatures: featurette plus cast and director interviews; TIME magazine specialfeatures, including LBJ slideschow; DVD-ROM features including timeline and strategysimulator; extensive historical background articles; text interviews with director & cast. (164min).

Platoon 's breakthrough as a director, Platoon is a brutally realistic look at a young soldier's tour of duty in Vietnam. Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) is a 1968 college student who quits school to volunteer for the Army. He's shipped off to Vietnam, where he serves with a culturally diverse group of fellow soldiers and under the two men who lead the platoon: Sgt. Barnes (Tom Berenger), whose facial scars are a mirror of the violence and corruption of his , and Sgt. Elias (Willem Dafoe), who maintains a Zen-like calm in the jungle and fights with both personal and moral courage even though he no longer believes in the war. After a few weeks "in country," Taylor begins to see the naivete of his views of the war, especially after a quick search for enemy troops devolves into a round of murder and rape. Unlike Hollywood's first wave of Vietnam movies (including , , and Coming Home), Platoon is a grunts-eye-view of the war, touching on moral issues but focusing on the men who fought the battles and suffered the wounds. In this sense, it resembles older war movies more than its Vietnam peers, as it mixes familiar elements of onscreen battle with small realistic details: bugs, jungle rot, exhaustion, C-rations, marijuana, and counting the days before you go home. This mix of traditional war movie elements with a contemporary sensibility won Platoon four Oscars, including Best Picture and Best Director, and a reputation as one of the definitive Mr. Warner’s Vietnam War Movie List modern war movies. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide. Academy Award for Best Picture of 1986. (120 minutes)

Purple Hearts This tale of doomed romance set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War was the last in a string of box office disappointments from director Sidney J. Furie before he struck gold again with Iron Eagle (1986). Ken Wahl stars as Dr. Don Jardian, a Navy medical officer assigned to duty in Vietnam. Jardian is no flag-waving patriot, however; the reluctant warrior is just biding his time until he can return stateside and start a lucrative private practice. Then he meets and falls in love with Deborah Solomon (Cheryl Ladd), a devoted nurse who at first keeps the handsome doctor at bay, disgusted by the avariciousness that led him to choose what Deborah considers a noble profession. Eventually, however, Deborah's selflessness inspires Don and their romance blooms despite their bloody surroundings, leading to a dangerous mission that could separate them forever

La 317e section Story about a French/Laotian platoon during May 1954 (two months before the armistice) as they withdraw through the jungle after the fall of Dien Bien Phu. They are slowly annihilated by ambushes and disease. The film captures the inarticulate anguish and solitude of each man by focusing on a veteran Alsatian sergeant (who fought in the German army in World War II) and a young French officer fresh from military school. Their impersonal, hierarchical and sometimes hostile relationship develops into an unlikely friendship. Both the director Shoendoerffer and the photographer Coutard were veterans of the Indochina war. In French with English subtitles. Based on the novel by Pierre Schoendoerffer. 94 min.)

The Odd Angry Shot Director Tom Jeffrey provides a cathartic Australian answer (1979) to Michael Cimino's The Deer Hunter. Australia's participation in the Vietnam War was as much of an alienating and soul-searching experience for Australians as for Americans, and Jeffrey's frank portrayal of a group of Australian volunteers casts the war in a different light from the perspective of a Cimino or Oliver Stone. The story concerns a corp of Australian elite soldiers -- the Special Air Service troops (the equivalent of the United States' Special Forces group) -- and the elite group's more pragmatic and hopeful attitudes -- whiling away the time in mindless diversions and cracking jokes. Then one of their own is killed and their feelings about the war suddenly change.

The Seige of Firebase Gloria Based on the true story, this film follows the struggle of a group of brave Marines as they attempt to defend Firebase Gloria during the Tet Offensive, even though they are greatly outnumbered.

Song of the south The life of a young boy growing up in Vietnam during the Indochinese War. In Vietnamese and some French, with English subtitles. Originally broadcast by Ho Chi Minh City Television Film Studio in 1998. 6 videodiscs (660 min.)

The Stunt Man "Vietnam veteran Cameron is on the run from the police when he stumbles onto the set of a war movie directed by megalomaniac Eli Cross. But when the young fugitive is forced to replace a dead stunt man, he falls in love with the movie's leading lady while trying to avoid getting arrested or killed. Is Eli trying to capture Cameron's death on film? And what happens to a paranoid stunt man when illusion and reality change places?" Mr. Warner’s Vietnam War Movie List

Tigerland [PN1997 .T5441 2001] Just released from the base stockade, recruit Roland Bozz joins a platoon of young soldiers preparing to ship out to Vietnam. His independence and outright defiance draw fire from his own men as well as commanding officers. But when the platoon is sent to Tigerland, a hellish training ground, Bozz's leadership and loyalty bring his men together, triggering extraordinary consequences. )

We Were Soldiers [PN1997 .W4317 2002 ]. 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 battle of the war. Heroism becomes the order of the day as the men refuse to yield, in spite of heavy losses of life. Based on the book "We were soldiers once ... and young" by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway, (138 min.)

The year that trembled Note Originally released as a motion picture in 2001; A war chronicle and unconventional love story set in the shadow of Kent State's turbulent events, when passions ignited a nation and choices became a matter of life and death. 105 mins.