P a r t I I I Appendices Master List of Films A-Team, The (2010) Born on the Fourth of July (1989) Act of Valor (2012) Boys in Company C, The (1978) Alive Day Memories: Home from Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988) Iraq (2007) Bravo Two Zero (1999) Allegiance (2012)—original Bright Shining Lie, A (1998) title, Recalled Bringing Down a Dictator (2002) American Soldier, An (2008) Brothers (2009) American Soldier, The (1970) Brothers at War (2009) American Soldier: We Die So Casualties of War (1989) You Can Live (2010) Catch-22 (1970) American Soldiers (2005) Charlie Wilson’s War (2007) Americana (1981) China Beach (1988–1991) Armadillo (2010) Civic Duty (2006) Audience Strikes Back, The (2008) Combat Diary: The Marines of Avatar (2009) Lima Company (2006) Badland (2007) Combat Hospital (2011) Baghdad ER (2006) Coming Home (1978) Baghdad Hospital (2007) Confronting Iraq: Conflict and Baker Boys: Inside the Surge (2010) Hope (2005) Battle for Haditha (2007) Conspiracy (2008) Battle for Marjah, The (2010) Control Room (2004) Battle: Los Angeles (2011) Corporal’s Diary, The (2008) Behind Enemy Lines (2001) Courage Under Fire (1996) Big Noise Dispatches: Volume 1 Day Zero (2007) (2008) Dead Presidents (1995) Big Noise Dispatches: Volume 2 Dear John (2010) (2008) Deer Hunter, The (1978) Big Noise Dispatches: Volume 3 (2008) Dijihad! (2006) Big Noise Dispatches: Volume 4 Distant Thunder (1988) (2008) Dry Land (2010) Birdy (1984) Black Hawk Down (2001) Enemies among Us (2010) Blood and Oil (2008) Energy War (2007) Body of Lies (2008) Even the Rain (2010) Body of War (2007) Extraordinary Rendition (2007) 202 American War Cinema and Media since Vietnam Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004) Home of the Brave (2006) Fair Game (2010) Homeland (2011–2012) Finest Hour, The (1992) Hurt Locker, The (2009) Fog of War, The (2003) I Am an American Soldier: One Year For My Country: History of National in Iraq with the 101st Airborne Guard (2008) (2007) Forrest Gump (1994) In the Valley of Elah (2007) Four Horsemen, The (2008) Inside Iraq: The Untold Stories Frontline: Bad Voodoo’s War (2008) (2004) Frontline: Behind Taliban Lines Invisible War, The (2012) (2010) Iran is Not the Problem (2008) Frontline: Bush’s War (2008) Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers Frontline: Digital Nation (2010) (2006) Frontline: Endgame (2007) Iraq in Fragments (2006) Frontline: Kill/Capture (2011) Iraq Raw: The Tuttle Tapes Frontline: News War (2007) (2004) Frontline: Obama’s War (2009) Iraq Uploaded: The War Network Frontline: Rules of Engagement TV Won’t Show You (2006) (2008) Iraq War, The (2008) Frontline: The Al Qaeda Files Iron Man (2008) (2006) Iron Man 2 (2010) Frontline: The Choice (2008) Frontline: The Dark Side (2006) Jacob’s Ladder (1990) Frontline: The War Briefing Jarhead (2005) (2008) Jeffrey Ross: No Offense (2008) Frontline: The Wounded Platoon Johnny Got His Gun (1971) (2010) Kandahar (2001) Frontline: Wikisecrets (2011) Kandahar Break (2009) Full Metal Jacket (1987) Kill Point, The (2007) G.I. Jane (1997) Kite Runner, The (2007) Garrison (2008) L-Word, The, Season 5 (2009) Generation Kill (2008) Latino (1985) Go Tell the Spartans (1978) Lazy Ramadi (2006) Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) La Femme Nikita (1997–2001) Gordon’s War (1973) Lewis Black: Red, White and Grace is Gone (2007) Screwed (2006) Green Zone (2010) Life and Death in the War Zone: Ground Truth, The (2006) NOVA (2004) Ground War, The (2010) Line in the Sand, A (2006) Gunner Palace (2004) Line in the Sand, A (2009) Hamburger Hill (1987) Lioness (2008) Heaven & Earth (1993) Lions for Lambs (2007) Hell and Back Again (2011) Live From Baghdad (2002) Heroes of Desert Storm, The (1991) Lone Survivor, The (2011) Master List of Films 203 Love Lies Bleeding (2008) Nature: Braving Iraq (2010) Lucky Ones, The (2008) Navy SEALs (1990) Navy SEALs: America’s Secret Manchurian Candidate, The (2004) Warriors (1998) Marine Story, A (2010) Navy SEALs: Buds Class 234 (2000) Marines (2003) Navy SEALs: The Untold Stories Mark of Cain, The (2007) NCIS (2003–2013) MASH (1970) New American Century, The (2009) Master and Commander: The Far No End in Sight (2007) Side of the World (2003) No Substitute/Victory: Vietnam to Medium Cool (1969) Iraq (2006) Meeting Resistance (2007) No True Glory: Battle for Fallujah Messenger, The (2009) (2011) Militainment, Inc. (2007) No Worse Enemy Missing in Action (1984) Nothing But the Truth (2008) Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985) Occupation (2009) My Country, My Country (2006) Occupation Dreamland (2005) My Vietnam, Your Iraq (2008) Occupation to Basra (2009) Off to War: From Rural Arkansas National Geographic Explorer: Camp to Iraq (2005) Leatherneck (2010) Officer and a Gentleman, An (1982) National Geographic Explorer: Oil Factor, The (2005) Inside Guantanamo Bay (2009) One that Got Away, The (1996) National Geographic Explorer: Osama (2003) Inside Shock & Awe (2005) Over There (2005) National Geographic Explorer: Iraq’s Guns for Hire (2007) Panama Deception (1992) National Geographic Explorer: Patriot Act: A Jeffrey Ross Home Super Carrier (2006) Movie (2005) National Geographic Explorer: Platoon (1986) Vietnam’s Unseen War (2002) Prisoner: Or How I Planned to Kill National Geographic Specials: Tony Blair, The (2006) Inside Special Forces (2003) Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) National Geographic: 21 Days to Redacted (2007) Baghdad (2003) Rendition (2007) National Geographic: Ambassador; Restrepo (2010) Inside the Embassy (2002) Ron White: Behavioral Problems National Geographic: Arlington, (2009) Field of Honor (2005) Route Irish (2010) National Geographic: Inside American Rumor of War, A (1980) Power; The Pentagon (2002) Rush to War (2004) National Geographic: Inside Mecca (2003) Saving Jessica Lynch (2003) National Geographic: Inside the Saving Private Ryan (1998) State Department (2010) Shadow (2009) 204 American War Cinema and Media since Vietnam Shadows in Paradise (2010) Tour of Duty (1987–1990) Shutdown: The Rise and Fall (2008) True Blood: Season 2 (2009) Sir! No Sir! (2005) Twenty-One Days to Baghdad Situation, The (2006) (2003) Sniper (1993) Soldiers Pay (2004) Uncommon Valor (1983) Some Kind of Hero (1982) Uncovered: The War On Iraq Soundtrack to War (2005) (2004) Southland Tales (2006) Uncovered: The Whole Truth Spartacus (1960) about the Iraq War (2004) Special Ops (2010) Unit, The (2006–2009) Special Ops Mission (2009) Valley of the Wolves: Iraq (2006) State Within, The (2006) Veteran, The (2011) Stop-Loss (2008) Violent Kind, The (2008) Stop the War Coalition: Benefit Voices of Iraq (2004) Concert (2005) Streamers (1983) Walking Dead, The (1995) Surviving the Cut (2010) War at Home, The (1996) Syriana (2005) War Diaries: Letters from the Front (2009) Taxi Driver (1976) War Feels Like War (2004) Ten Years On (1973) War in Iraq: The Road to Thanks of a Grateful Nation (1998) Baghdad (2004) They Call It Murda We Call It War Made Easy (2007) Survival (2006) War Tapes, The (2006) Thin Red Line, The (1989) War with Iraq: Stories from the This is War: Memories of Iraq Front ( 2004) (2007) War, Inc. (2008) Three Kings (1999) Wartorn 1861–2010 (2010) Tiger and the Snow, The (2005) Way We Get by, The (2009) Tigerland (2000) We Were Soldiers (2002) Tillman Story, The (2010) When I Came Home (2006) Time Bomb (2008) Torturer, The (2008) Zero Dark Thirty (2012) C h r o n o l o g y b y Y e a r : Historical Events and Relevant Films and Media H i s t o r i c a l E v e n t s 1973 Cease-fire agreement in Paris ends US role in combat in Vietnam War. An end to the military draft was announced on the same day (January 27, 1973). 1975 North Vietnamese troops invade South Vietnam and take control of the whole country after South Vietnamese president Duong Van Minh surrenders. The Vietnam War ended after 14 years, with major US troop combat totaling eight years between 1965 and 1973 with 56,559 Americans dead. (January 10, 1975). President John F. Kennedy sent 3,000 military advisors to Vietnam in 1961, but major US combat operations did not begin until April 1965 when President Lyndon Johnson raised US combat troops to 60,000. 1976 Socialist Republic of Vietnam proclaimed. Saigon is renamed Ho Chi Minh City. Bicentennial; Jimmy Carter wins the presidential election, defeating incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford. Fiction Feature Films 1969–1976 Medium Cool (United States: 1969) Director: Haskell Wexler. Released by Paramount Pictures. 111 minutes. Johnny Got His Gun (United States: 1972) Director: Dalton Trumbo. Released by Cinemation Industries. 111 minutes. Gordon’s War (United States: 1973) Released by Palomar Pictures. Director Ossie Davis. 90 minutes. Taxi Driver (United States: 1976) Released by Columbia Pictures. Director: Martin Scorsese. 113 minutes. 206 American War Cinema and Media since Vietnam 1978 Boys in Company C, The (United States: 1978) Released by Columbia Pictures. Director: Sidney J. Furie. 125 minutes. Coming Home (United States: 1978) Released by Independent: IPC Films. Director: Hal Ashby. 127 minutes. Deer Hunter, The (United States: 1978) Released by Universal Pictures. Director: Michael Cimino. 182 minutes. Go Tell the Spartans (United States: 1978) Released by Astral Films. Director: Ted Post. 114 minutes. H i s t o r i c a l E v e n t s 1979 Sino-Vietnamese War. 1980 Ronald Reagan elected President. Soviets invade Afghanistan. Civil War in El Salvador. Beginning of Iran-Iraq War. Fiction Feature Films Breaker Morant (Australia: 1980) Released by New World-Quartet Films. Director: Bruce Beresford. 107 minutes. TV Fiction Film Rumor of War, A (United States: 1980) Released by CBS. Director: Richard T. Heffron. 191 minutes. H i s t o r i c a l E v e n t s 1981 Iranian hostage crisis ends. Reagan fires the striking air traffic controllers and breaks up their union.