During the Vietnam War, soldier Luc Deveraux (Jean-Claude Van Damme) finds that his superior officer, Andrew Scott (Dolph Lundgren), has turned violently deranged, and the two fight to the death. After their bodies are retrieved, they are placed into a secret program in which they are rean...
Four African American vets battle the forces of man and nature when they return to Vietnam seeking the remains of their fallen squad leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide. Released: 2020 Directed by: Spike Lee Also ranks #14 on The Most Powerful Movies About Racism Streaming Online...
Ho Xuan Huong (1772-1882) was a risqué Vietnamese poetess. Her verse, replete with nods, winks, sexual innuendo and a rich eroticism, was shocking to many readers of her day and will probably remain so to some of ours. Huong has been described as "the candid voice of a liberal ...
streets of Southern California (National Book Foundation) It is 1969, and flames can be seen on the horizon, protest wafts like smoke though the thick air, and Easy Rawlins, the Black private detective whose small agency finally has its own office, gets a visit from a white Vietnam veteran...
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He had spent some time in French Indochina, where he had got into a bit of trouble with the French authorities in Vietnam for tomb-raiding. He was also in a leftist phase of his life at that time. Man’s Fate is about the suppression of the labour movement and the nascent Communist...
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the book represents future social and cultural developments — for instance, the death of affect (because of prolonged exposure to sex and violence via pop culture and advertising); the triumph of kitsch culture; the banalization of celebrity; disaster porn; endless movies about the Vietnam War ...
The 1960s and ’70s saw several Westerns that included allegories for the ongoing war in Vietnam, in some eyes including ‘The Wild Bunch,’‘Little Big Man,’ and ‘The Outlaw Josie Wales.’‘Ulzana’s Raid’ came from Robert Aldrich who, among the many genres in which he excelled (...
One of the most beloved novels on this list,Inside Out and Back Againis told through the voice of Hà, a young girl forced to leave her home of Saigon during the Vietnam War. Kent Stateby Deborah Wiles Deborah Wiles tells the terrifying account of the massacre at Kent State, where Natio...