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Pages in category "Films shot in Vietnam" The following 62 pages are in this category, out of 62 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. 0–9.
B-movies that feature Vietnam veterans with an emphasis on action, violence, and revenge, belong into the exploitation subgenre called "vetsploitation." [ 3 ] ) A more popular stereotype was the "wounded veteran,” a veteran who was always psychologically and sometimes physically traumatized by the war. [ 2 ]
The film received mixed reviews. Rotten Tomatoes reports a 60% approval rating based on 15 reviews, with an average score of 5.83/10. [5]Lisa Schwarzbaum of Entertainment Weekly gave the film a B− and said, "The Vietnam-flashback material doesn’t resonate as sharply as it did when screenwriter James Duff first presented this as a stage play in 1984.
Welcome Home, Johnny Bristol is a 1972 television film directed by George McCowan and starring Martin Landau and Jane Alexander. The screenplay concerns a soldier returning from Vietnam, where he was a POW, who finds his home town missing. It is one of the earliest films to depict post traumatic stress disorder. [1]
The cinema of Vietnam originates in the 1920s and was largely influenced by wars that have been fought in the country from the 1940s to the 1970s. Some proclaimed Vietnamese language -films include Cyclo , The Scent of Green Papaya and Vertical Ray of the Sun , all by Tran Anh Hung , challenged the war-torn depiction of Vietnam at the time. [ 5 ]
Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film directed by Ted Post and starring Burt Lancaster.The film is based on Daniel Ford's 1967 novel Incident at Muc Wa [1] about U.S. Army military advisors during the early part of the Vietnam War in 1964, when Ford was a correspondent in Vietnam for The Nation.
Cities in Vietnam are identified by the government as settlements with considerable area and population that play important roles vis-a-vis politics, economy and culture. Status of cities falls into four categories: special, first class ( I ), second class ( II ), and third class ( III ).
During the Vietnam War in 1968, Green Beret Captain Sam Cahill has been working hard to create good relations between the United States and Montagnard Vietnamese in the village of Dak Nhe, which occupies an important observation point near the clandestine Ho Chi Minh trail. Cahill is coming close to his discharge, and explains to his successor ...