Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam was directed and produced by Bill Couturie. Couturie is best known for the Academy Award-winning documentary “Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt”. Dear America was a multi-Emmy Award winner. The movie uses real letters written by US soldiers for it’s narration. The film is archive footage, together they convey the personal experiences of the men and women that served in Vietnam. [...]
Read moreDances with Wolves (1990)
Kevin Costner directs and stars in Dances with Wolves. It won the Academy Award for Best Picture. It is an epic about a lieutenant from the Civil War and his induction into a Sioux tribe. This movie was a positive experience. It reminded me of Braveheart. Director is the star in a somewhat controversial but [...]
Read more36 Hours (1965)
36 Hours (1965) was directed by George Seaton. Seaton wrote and directed the classic Miracle on 34th Street (1947). Major Jefferson Pike (James Garner)knows the plans for D-Day, he is sent to Lisbon to check with a German double agent he has recruited. In Lisbon Pike is drugged and captured by the Germans. They fly [...]
Read moreThe 25th Hour (1967)
The 25th Hour (1967) was directed by French director Henri Verneuil. Johann Moritz(Anthony Quinn) lives in a small village in Romania with his loving wife. Local police sergeant has Moritz sent to a work camp as a Jew, so he can try and sleep with his wife. After a couple of years he escapes with [...]
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