April 13, 2024
If you're a fan of Viet Thanh Nguyen's Vietnam War-heavy 2016 novel, The Sympathizer, it'd be worth getting a subscription to HBO if you don't have one to watch the sprawling new seven-part limited series…
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…
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 9, 2022
With the release of the fourth season of the Netflix’s sci-fi horror series “Stranger Things” in late May, the topic of the continuing impact of toxic exposure to Agent Orange was introduced to a new…
June 24, 2021
John Sacret Young, the writer and TV and movie producer best known for being the co-creator of the pioneering TV show, China Beach, died June 3 at age 75 from brain cancer. Young and William Broyles Jr.--a…
May 29, 2021
This year's National Memorial Day Concert, which airs on PBS stations nationwide at 8:00 p.m. Eastern Time on Sunday, May 30, includes a tribute to American nurses who served in the Vietnam War. Among those…
June 25, 2020
Mark Glamack, one of Hollywood's top animators, and a Vietnam War veteran, died May 29 at age 73. He was drafted into the Army and served as a medic in Vietnam, and died of complications of…
April 24, 2019
The fifth season of the detective/thriller series Bosch started streaming on Amazon Prime Video last week. Bosch is based on the twenty-one best-selling and brilliant Harry Bosch novels written by Michael Connelly, starting with The Black Echo…
March 27, 2019
Last summer we reported on the fact that the award-winning novelist Tim (The Things They Carried) O'Brien, was hired to consult on the upcoming third season of the popular NBC-TV family drama, This is Us. That…
July 11, 2018
It looks as though the upcoming third season of the NBC-TV family drama, This Is Us, will have a significant Vietnam War theme. That's because NBC just announced that the acclaimed novelist Tim (The Things They Carried,…