Feature Films
Apocalypse Now: The Video Game
February 22, 2017
Word is that Francis Ford Coppola's company, American Zoetrope, is working on a video game based on his famed Vietnam War film Apocalypse Now. The company started a Kickstarter Campaign to raise $900,000 for the…
Sydney Schanberg, 1934-2016
July 11, 2016
Sydney H. Schanberg, the former New York Times war correspondent best known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning coverage of the Khmer Rouge takeover of Cambodia in 1975, died July 9 at age 82 . The story…
S.F. Veterans Film Festival Submissions
July 7, 2016
The fifth annual San Francisco Veterans Film Festival, which will take place at Koret Auditorium at the main branch of the San Francisco Public Library on Saturday and Sunday November 12 and 13, is now accepting…
Michael Cimino, 1939-2016
July 4, 2016
Michael Cimino, who won a Best Director Oscar for his highly acclaimed---and controversial--Vietnam War film, "The Deer Hunter, " died July 2 at age 77. That 1978 movie, starring Robert De Niro and Christopher Walken, follows…
Michael Herr, 1940-2016
June 29, 2016
Michael Herr, the journalist and author best known for his Dispatches , his 1977 stylized book of Vietnam War reporting, died June 23 at age 76. Herr went to the war zone to write a series…
Bobbie Ann Mason Receives Kentucky Literary Honor
January 31, 2016
Bobbie Ann Mason, the acclaimed novelist and short story writer, was inducted into the Kentucky Writers Hall of Fame on January 28 . Mason, who grew up in Mayfield, Kentucky, and still lives in the…
‘Veterans in Politics’ radio
December 14, 2015
"Veterans in Politics, " the weekly radio show produced by Steve Sanson and hosted by Jim Jonas (above), will feature an interview on December 19 at 1:45 pm Pacific Time with award-winning screenplay writer David Bryant Perkins focusing on…
Bill Murray as a Saintly Vietnam War Veteran
December 21, 2014
Bill Murray is a great comic actor, a fact we’ve known since he hit the big time when he joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 1977. He’s also a very good dramatic actor,…
Robin Williams, 1951-2014
August 12, 2014
Most of the obituaries and appreciations of Robin Williams (who committed suicide on August 11) mentioned the fact that his breakout acting role came in the film Good Morning Vietnam and that he won a…
New on HBO: 'Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight'
October 30, 2013
There's little doubt that the most famous draft evader during the Vietnam War was the Heavyweight Champion of the World, Muhammad Ali. When Ali received his draft notice in 1966, he claimed conscientious objector status…