April 25, 2012
The Siege of Firebase Gloria , a low-budget Vietnam War combat movie that came out early in 1989, has just been released in DVD in the MGM Limited Edition Collection series. The movie stars Lee…
March 16, 2012
Pierre Schoendoerffer, the French filmmaker whose work was strongly influenced by his French military service in Indochina from 1951-54, died March 14 in a Paris hospital. Schoendoerffer, who was wounded in the French Indochina War…
December 28, 2011
Librarian of Congress James H. Billington today announced that twenty-five movies have been named to the LOC's National Film Registry, which means they will be preserved in the Library as cultural, artistic, and historical treasures.…
December 15, 2011
Bert Schneider, one of Hollywood's biggest producers in the Vietnam War era who made several iconic films including Easy Rider (1969), Five Easy Pieces (1970), and The Last Picture Show (1971), died December 12 in…
October 9, 2011
John Wayne's family held a two-day auction in Los Angeles October 7-8, during which some 700 of the Duke's personal items, including movie costumes, went on the block. When the dust settled, the take was…
September 30, 2011
The movie The Road to Freedom opened today (Friday, September 30) in theaters in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Boston, Chicago, and Austin, Texas. The film is a fictionalized look at what happened to…
August 22, 2011
Francesco Quinn (kneeling, left ), who played Rhah, a member of the platoon in Oliver Stone's pioneering 1987 Vietnam War film Platoon , died August 12 at age 48. Quinn, the son of the famed…
July 28, 2011
The character actor G.D. Spradlin, who got his Hollywood start in his forties after making a fortune in the oil business, died July 24 in California at age 90. Spradlin specialized in playing doctors, lawyers,…
March 22, 2011
Despite the fact that it contains perhaps Hollywood's most psychotic Vietnam veteran (and that's saying something), the 1976 Paul Schrader-Martin Scorsese film Taxi Driver is widely viewed as one of the best movies of the…
March 9, 2011
The Pritzker Military Libary in Chicago's Saturday Film Series continues this Saturday, March 12, with a showing of The Green Berets (1968), the only movie John Wayne directed---and the only Hollywood Vietnam War movie made…