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1) Path to war
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Beginning immediately after his victorious election to the Presidency, Lyndon Johnson's dreams for "The Great Society" and his vision for civil rights in America were devastated by the impact of the Vietnam War-- a war he didn't start, but which he seemed unable to end. He is torn between the recommendation for increased bombing to win, and a nation torn apart by the deaths of young Americans overseas and the protest of those who stayed behind.
3) Danger close
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August 18, 1966 South Vietnam, for three and a half hours, in the pouring rain, amid the mud of a rubber plantation called Long Tan, Major Harry Smith and his company of 108 young and inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting for their lives, holding off an overwhelming force of 2,000 battle-hardened Viet Cong. With their ammunition running out, each man begins to search for his own answer and the strength to triumph over an uncertain...
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After the death of his brother in Afghanistan, Jacob Singer is finally getting his life back together. He has a beautiful wife, a newborn child, and a successful career as a surgeon in a VA hospital. When a stranger approaches him and tells him that his brother is alive and living in an underground shelter with other homeless vets, Jacob's life stars to unravel. He begins hallucinating, believes someone is following him, and becomes paranoid about...
6) In country
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Dramatic portrayal of a reclusive war vet and his 17 year old niece as they struggle to heal the wounds of Vietnam.
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With the Vietnam War raging in 1969, two young fathers report for duty: a man of great faith and a doubtful cynic. A quarter-century later, their sons, Wayne and John Paul, meet as strangers. Guided by handwritten letters from their fathers from the battlefield, they embark on an unforgettable journey to The Wall -the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Along the way, they discover the devastation of war cannot break the love of a father...
10) Platoon
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Emotional look at the war in Vietnam, seen through the eyes of a young man who discovers that the Viet Cong are not the only enemies he has to fight.
11) Love and honor
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After being dumped by his girlfriend, a solider returns home from Vietnam and tries to win her back.
15) Jacob's ladder
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A Vietnam veteran back at home in New York City finds himself losing his grip on reality as he sees visions of demons and his dead son.
17) The last season
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Introduces viewers to a pair of Veterans who meet at a mushroom hunting camp in Central Oregon.
18) Hamburger Hill
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Fourteen American soldiers in Vietnam battle for a mud-covered mound of earth that chews up soldiers like meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is worse.
19) The fog of war
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Interviews and profiles Robert S. McNamara, former Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and during the Cuban Missile Crisis and the Vietnam War.
20) The Sapphires
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Based on a true story, four young Aboriginal Australian women become a singing sensation with the help of an Irish talent scout and go to Vietnam in 1968 to entertain the troops.
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