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Faith of My Fathers
:Description:Based on the autobiography by Senator John McCain and Mark Salter, Faith of My Fathers chronicles the younger years of Senator McCain's life. Beginning as a hotshot Navy pilot through his five years of captivity as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam, the film captures how his experiences helped shape the man that he has become. :'It's all about character,' Jack McCain says to son John on his first day at Annapolis Naval Academy. Based on John McCain's autobiography, A&E’s Faith of Our Fathers ...
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Operation Dumbo Drop
:Description:An exciting comedy adventure of enormous proportions, OPERATION DUMBO DROP was cheered by critics and audiences across America! A savvy veteran army captain (Danny Glover, LETHAL WEAPON I-IV, ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD) is teamed with a by-the-book West Point officer (Ray Liotta -- NARC, HEARTBREAKERS) to lead the 'weightiest' military maneuver ever. Their job: To secretly transport a full-grown elephant across 200 miles of rugged terrain -- fording rivers, scaling mountains, and crossing canyons -- to reach a remote jungle villlage! You'll discover laughter around ...
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The Hanoi Hilton
:Description:An exciting comedy adventure of enormous proportions, OPERATION DUMBO DROP was cheered by critics and audiences across America! A savvy veteran army captain (Danny Glover, LETHAL WEAPON I-IV, ANGELS IN THE OUTFIELD) is teamed with a by-the-book West Point officer (Ray Liotta -- NARC, HEARTBREAKERS) to lead the 'weightiest' military maneuver ever. Their job: To secretly transport a full-grown elephant across 200 miles of rugged terrain -- fording rivers, scaling mountains, and crossing canyons -- to reach a remote jungle villlage! You'll discover laughter around ...
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Hearts and Minds - Criterion Collection
:Description:A courageous and startling film, Peter Davis' landmark documentary Hearts and Minds unflinchingly confronts the United States' involvement in Vietnam. Using a wealth of sources-from interviews to newsreels to documentary footage of the conflict at home and abroad-Davis constructs a powerfully affecting portrait of the disastrous effects of war. Explosive, persuasive, and shocking, Hearts and Minds is an overwhelming emotional experience and the controversial winner of the 1974 Academy Award® for Best Documentary.
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Four Friends
: :Academy Award®-winning* screenwriter Steven Tesich (Breaking Away) and Oscar®-nominated** director Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde Alice's Restaurant) team up for this 'charming powerful' (Leonard Maltin) coming-of-age story set against the protest prosperity and broken promises of the '60s.Coming to America with big dreams young Danilo stands before a future of endless possibilities until he falls in love with Georgia. A free-spirited flower child Georgia loves everyone including Danilo's two best friends! But their friendships are strained when she becomes pregnant by one and marries ...
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Deathdream
: :Academy Award®-winning* screenwriter Steven Tesich (Breaking Away) and Oscar®-nominated** director Arthur Penn (Bonnie and Clyde Alice's Restaurant) team up for this 'charming powerful' (Leonard Maltin) coming-of-age story set against the protest prosperity and broken promises of the '60s.Coming to America with big dreams young Danilo stands before a future of endless possibilities until he falls in love with Georgia. A free-spirited flower child Georgia loves everyone including Danilo's two best friends! But their friendships are strained when she becomes pregnant by one and marries ...
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Promise Of Love, The
: :The Promise of Love is a dramatic commentary on the tragic effects of the Vietnam War.
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Combat Shock
:Description:In underground NYC director Buddy Giovinazzo’s disturbing, horrifying Combat Shock, a vet trades in the jungles of the Nam for an entirely different concrete jungle- The mean streets of New York! Exposure to torture cages destroyed his will. Agent Orange left him with a deformed child. With debts owed to vicious loan sharks, no job and no money, Frankie (Ricky Giovinazzo) wanders streets and alleyways filled with junkies, hoods, teenage prostitutes and brutality that makes war seem like recess. Combat Shock has been hailed as ...
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Enemy
:Description:In underground NYC director Buddy Giovinazzo’s disturbing, horrifying Combat Shock, a vet trades in the jungles of the Nam for an entirely different concrete jungle- The mean streets of New York! Exposure to torture cages destroyed his will. Agent Orange left him with a deformed child. With debts owed to vicious loan sharks, no job and no money, Frankie (Ricky Giovinazzo) wanders streets and alleyways filled with junkies, hoods, teenage prostitutes and brutality that makes war seem like recess. Combat Shock has been hailed as ...
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The Long Way Home Project
:Description:In underground NYC director Buddy Giovinazzo’s disturbing, horrifying Combat Shock, a vet trades in the jungles of the Nam for an entirely different concrete jungle- The mean streets of New York! Exposure to torture cages destroyed his will. Agent Orange left him with a deformed child. With debts owed to vicious loan sharks, no job and no money, Frankie (Ricky Giovinazzo) wanders streets and alleyways filled with junkies, hoods, teenage prostitutes and brutality that makes war seem like recess. Combat Shock has been hailed as ...
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