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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…