The Arts & The Vietnam War
The Arts -- General
Imaginative Representations Of The Vietnam War (Literature and the Visual Arts)
Department of Special Collections at La Salle University's Connelly Library
Film
-- General
Vietnam
War Films at Wellesley College
The
Vietnam War on Film
Vietnam
War Films
Vietnamese
Films on the Vietnam War (Legacy Project)
Feature
Films
Rescue Dawn (2007) (Official website)
"Apocalypse
Now" (1979) and "Apocalypse
Now Redux" (2001)
"We
Were Soldiers..."(Released March 2002)
Full
Metal Jacket (History in Film)
The Quiet
American (Released
November 2002)
Tigerland (A
feature film about Army basic training in 1971)
Documentary
Films
Two
Days in October (PBS, The American Experience).
Based on the book "They marched into sunlight" by
David Maraniss. Examines the critical events that took place
in the fall of 1967,
from the ambush of an American battalion by the Viet Cong that
led to skepticism of whether the Vietnamese conflict was winnable,
to the first violent anti-war demonstration on a campus in Wisconsin
"Fog
of War": An Earl Morris Film
"Be
Good, Smile Pretty" --
a film by a woman whose father was killed in Vietnam
Daughter
from Danang (2003 Oscar Nominee for Best Documentary
feature)
Mai's
America (Film by Marlo Poras about a Vietnamese
girl who comes to the US-- rural Mississippi -- for her senior
year in high school)
Maya
Lin: A Strong, Clear Vision (1995 Oscar for
Best Documentary, includes brief video clip)
Pete
Peterson Assignment Hanoi (Companion to site
to the 1999 PBS Program about the former POW who became America's
first postwar ambassador to Vietnam)
Return
with Honor (PBS Web Site for the film about
US POWs)
Regret
to Inform (PBS web site for the film about
war widows on both sides)
Hearts
and Minds (A film by Peter Davis; Oscar for
Best Documentary, 1973)
Rising
Above: Women of Vietnam (Bullfrog Films)
Literature & Poetry
Tim
O'Brien, Novelist-Veteran
Yusef
Komunyakaa, Poet-Veteran
Dusty's
Poetry (Poems by an Army Nurse Vietnam Veteran)
Vietnam
Poems (by Vietnam Veteran, Paul Kohl)
www.
gustavhasford.com (author of several Vietnam War
novels)
Visuals
Art
Vietnam
Behind the Lines: Images of the War (Art
from North Vietnam; The British Museum)
Vietnam
War: Visual Arts (Legacy Project)
Arts
of War Gallery
Cuban
Posters on Vietnam, Cambodia, & Laos
Art
of the Killing Fields (Legacy Project)
Killing
Field's Survivors' Art
Music
Battle
Note: Music of the Vietnam War
Sarge
Lintecum's Jungle--Vietnam Blues
Television
Vietnam
on Television (Museum of Broadcast Journalism)
Tour
of Duty (tv.com)
China
Beach (Television series fan website)
Path
to War (An HBO Made-for-TV Film)
Fox
Network Made-for-TV Movie: The Pentagon Papers (NY Times Review)
Vietnam 1988 Australian TV mini-series (437 minutes), starring Nicole Kidman in one of her first major roles, as the anti-war sister of a Australian draftee sent to Vietnam. The linked web site has a lot of information about the series, including several video clips.
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