Documentaries

Award-Winning Doc ‘Just Like Me’ on PBS on Veterans Day

November 10, 2023

VVA member Ron Osgood’s Emmy-winning documentary, Just Like Me: The Vietnam War/The American War, a film that weaves together the stories of Americans and Vietnamese who took part in the war, will be broadcast by many PBS…

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PBS’s new ‘American Veteran’ docuseries now on YouTube

November 13, 2022

The new PBS ten-episode docuseries, American Veteran, is now streaming on YouTube. What's special about this well-produced series is that each episode focuses on a veteran and a special object he or she brought with…

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Kevin Hardy’s War Movie Review Blog

September 20, 2022

Retired history teacher Kevin Hardy is a prolific writer who specializes in reviews of war movies. Hardy, who lives in New Iberia, Louisiana, has written scores of in-depth and incisive reviews and essays about American…

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The Covert Vietnam War Misty Experiment Documentary

June 30, 2022

Review by Kathleen Grathwol As we approach the 50th anniversary of the end of the American combat presence in the Vietnam War, more and more veterans’ stories are being told in memoirs, novels, and documentaries.…

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May 25 Chicago Screening of ‘Just Like Me: The Vietnam War/The American War’

June 5, 2022

VVA member Ron Osgood’s Emmy-winning documentary, Just Like Me: The Vietnam War/The America War, a film that weaves together the stories of Americans and Vietnamese who took part in the war, will be shown on…

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‘I Married the War’ Documentary streaming on November 6

October 30, 2021

Betty and Ken Rodgers’ brilliant new documentary, I Married the War, which focuses on eleven military wives who have had to deal with their husbands’ emotional and physical wounds of war, will have its virtual…

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First-Rate ‘American Veteran’ Doc Series on PBS

October 26, 2021

“American Veteran” is a top-quality, four-part documentary series produced by PBS’s WGBH that premieres today, October 26, 2021, on Public Broadcasting stations nationwide. The series is make up primarily of first-person testimony from American veterans…

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‘The War and Peace of Tim O’Brien’: A Deeply Personal Documentary

March 22, 2021

Review by Arts Editor Marc Leepson Movies and documentaries about creative writers tend to focus on their personal rather than professional lives. Why? Because nothing could be more non-cinematic than scene after scene of a…

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‘I Married the War’: A Searing Documentary on the Continuing Legacy of Combat

March 13, 2021

Review by Marc Leepson, Arts Editor and Senior Writer   What could be more jarring emotionally than a wife sending her husband off to a war? For many wives of military service members, the answer…

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POW/MIA Bracelet Documentary

November 5, 2020

Writer/producer Peggy Kennedy and director Roger Cluxton, who are putting together a documentary film called “MIA: Stories of the Vietnam War Bracelet,” recently announced that former network newscaster Dan Rather--who covered the war in Vietnam--has…

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