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Publisher
New Day Films
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
"In 1971, Daniel Ellsberg, a high-level Pentagon official and Vietnam War strategist, concludes that the war is based on decades of lies and leaks 7,000 pages of top secret documents to the New York Times, making headlines around the world. [The film tells how] one man's profound change of heart created a landmark struggle involving America's newspapers, president and Supreme Court -- a political thriller whose events led directly to Watergate, Nixon's...
Author
Publisher
NAL Caliber
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"In October 1969, William Albracht, the youngest Green Beret captain in Vietnam, took command of a remote hilltop outpost called Fire Base Kate, held by only 27 American soldiers and 150 Montagnard militiamen. He found their defenses woefully unprepared. At dawn the next morning, three North Vietnamese Army regiments--some 6,000 men--crossed the Cambodian border and attacked. Outnumbered three dozen to one, Albracht's men held off repeated ground...
Publisher
MGM
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
Delta Force: When a US passenger place is seized by vicious hijackers and taken to Beirut, the President calls in the Delta Force - a crack team of commando's - who rescue the hostages. Invasion USA: A ragtime army of terrorist mercenaries led by Soviet agent Rostov catches America unprepared and makes her a war zone from sea to shining sea. Only one man can stem the rising tide of violence and free the American people from the tyranny of the streets...
Author
Publisher
Syracuse University Press
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Sandwiched between the placid fifties and the flamboyant seventies, the sixties, a decade of tumultuous change and stunning paradoxes, is often reduced to a series of slogans, symbols, and media images. In this book the author goes beyond the cliches and synthesizes thirty years of research, writing, and teaching on one of the most turbulent decades of the twentieth century. He sketches the well known players of the period, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon...
486) Coach of the year
Publisher
Digiview Productions
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
Melodrama set in the US in the 1970s. A former football pro (Conrad) comes back from Vietnam in a wheelchair. He tries to put his life back together by coaching youngsters at a correctional facility
Series
Shout select volume 26
Publisher
Shout! Factory
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
The born losers: A biker gang incites a reign of terror in a California coastal town that culminates in four teenage girls being raped. Vietnam veteran and half-Native American Billy Jack has had enough, however, and takes on the depraved bikers single-handedly. He rescues young Vicky Barrington from their clutches, but then has to contend with not only the thugs, but also the ineffectual and racist local lawmen, who have it out for Billy.
Billy...
Author
Publisher
Center Point Pub
Pub. Date
2009, c2008
Language
English
Description
It's been forty years since he fought in Vietnam, and John Porter--now a wealthy builder in Charleston, South Carolina--is feeling the past nip at his heels. When he relays his recent terrifying confrontation with "the enemy" from long ago to his daughter, she takes it upon herself to help him deal with his scars. Fifty miles north in Georgetown, a fry cook named Lisa Le is trying desperately to connect with her Vietnamese mother. But secrets from...
Author
Publisher
Thorndike Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
There are people in this world we pass right by, yet some of them have amazing stories to tell. Aaron Miller was an old, worn-out Vietnam vet, a handyman in a trailer park. Forty years prior, he saved the lives of three young men in the field only to come home from the war and lose everything. But God is a master at finding and redeeming the lost things of life. Aaron is about to be found. And the one who finds him just might find the love of his...
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Through interviews with participants and archival footage, presents a history of Berkeley, California in the 1960s. Chronicles student participation in protest movements at the University of California, Berkeley, from the 1960 demonstration against the House Un-American Activities Committee in San Francisco to the 1969 People's Park confrontation. This film captures the decades events, the birth of the Free Speech Movement, civil rights marches, anti-Vietnam...
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