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"Back From Iraq: The U.S. Soldier Speaks"
[independent documentary film July 2006]

Four courageous U.S. Soldiers returned from their tour of duty in Iraq provide eye witness accounts, perceptions of the war, and insights into media concerns about U.S. national security. Produced & directed by Nancy Fulton; starring Jimmy Massey, Patrick Resta, Jeff Key & Joseph Mahfouz 60-min. color DVD [7/2006] for $25.00 full credits from IMDb • distributor website • official movie site

"Body of War"  [Film Sales Co. April 2008]

A documentary following an Iraq War veteran, paralyzed from a bullet to the spine, on a physical and emotional journey from soldier to anti-war activist. Co-produced, co-written & co-directed by Phil Donahue & Ellen Spiro; featuring Tomas Young video/DVD not yet available • full credits from IMDb • official movie site

"The Ground Truth: After The Killing Ends"
[independent documentary film January 2006]

"The best film so far about the cost of war in Iraq." — Time Magazine, Sept 2006 Produced & directed by Patricia Foulkrod Universal color DVD [9/2006] for $9.99 full credits from IMDb • official movie site

"Hurt Locker" [2009]
"One of the great war films." — Richard Corliss, Time Magazine
Directed by Kathryn Bigelow; full credits from IMDb
http://www.amazon.com/Hurt-Locker-Blu-ray-Jeremy-Renner/dp/B00275EGX8/
http://www.amazon.com/Hurt-Locker-Ralph-Fiennes/dp/B00275EGWY/

"Independent Intervention"
documentary video [Ground Productions 2006]

Challenges the corporate media’s presentation of war, with reports of the brutal realities in Iraq. Produced & directed by Tonje Hessen Schei; interviewees include Noam Chomsky, Amy Goodman, Jim Hightower, Bill Moyers, Arundhati Roy, Howard Zinn & James Zogby color DVD available at official website {via PayPal} Ground Prodns color DVD [3/2006] via Amazon third party credits at IMDb • official movie site

"Iraq For Sale: The War Profiteers"
[Brave New Films Sept 2006]

Produced by Robert Greenwald Brave New Films color DVD [9/2006] for $12.99 full credits at IMDb • official movie site

"Jarhead" [2005]: full credits at IMDb • official website

"No  End  In  Sight: The American Occupation of Iraq"
[Magnolia July 2007]

Examines the principal errors of U.S. policy – the use of insufficient troop levels, the looting of Baghdad, the purge of professionals from the Iraqi government, and the disbanding of the Iraqi military – that largely created the insurgency and chaos that engulf Iraq today. Co-produced, written & directed by Charles Ferguson; narrated by Campbell Scott; won Special Jury Prize at Sundance; listed #7 on TIME Top Ten Best Movies of The Year (12/2007); Oscar nomination for Best Documentary Feature, WGA nom for Best Documentary Screenplay Magnolia widescreen color DVD [10/2007] for $19.99 full credits from IMDb • official movie site

"Redacted"  [HDnet Oct 2007]

"Truth is the first casualty of war": A fictional account of U.S. soldiers at a checkpoint in Iraq. Examines the way information is packaged, distributed & received, and the extreme disconnect between the surface of an image and the reality of ideas and the truth. Written & directed by Brian De Palma; starring Patrick Carroll, Rob Devaney, Izzy Diaz, Mike Figueroa, Ty Jones, Kel O'Neill, Daniel Stewart Sherman Magnolia widescreen color DVD [2/2008] for $19.99 full credits from IMDb • official movie site {Flash only}

"Restrepo"  [2010]
http://www.restrepothemovie.com/

"Rethink Afghanistan" [Brave New Films Nov 2009]

A ground-breaking, full-length documentary that raises critical questions regarding Afghanistan; segments include Troops, Pakistan, Cost of War, Women of Afghanistan, Civilian Casualties, Security, and Solutions. Co-produced & directed by Robert Greenwald The Disinformation Company widescreen color DVD [11/2009] for $17.99 full credits at IMDb • official movie site

"Rush  To  War:  Between  Iraq  &  A  Hard  Place"
[independent documentary video Oct 2004]

interviewees include Sen. George McGovern, Joe Wilson, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Scott Ritter, Gen. Anthony Zinni, Richard Clarke and columnists Robert Scheer & Molly Ivins Written & directed by Robert Taicher Echo Bridge Home Ent. color DVD [9/2007] for $17.99 full credits from IMDb • official movie site

"Seal Team Six: The Raid On Osama bin Laden"
[Weinstein/National Geographic Channel Nov 2012]

Working title 'Code Name: Geronimo'; filming in New Mexico & India; the story of a female C.I.A. officer assigned to the Navy SEALs teams sent to Pakistan to track down and kill the al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden Directed by John Stockwell; script by Kendall Lampkin; starring Cam Gigandet, Anson Mount, Freddy Rodríguez, Alvin 'Xzibit' Joiner & Kathleen Robertson Anchor Bay widescreen color Blu-ray [1/2013] for $16.99 Anchor Bay widescreen color DVD [1/2013] for $14.80 full credits at IMDb

"Shadow Company"  [indep July 2007] /tt0762133/
award-winning documentary film co-written & co-directed by Nick Bicanic & Jason Bourque
http://www.shadowcompanythemovie.com/
http://www.amazon.com/Shadow-Company-special-Alan-Bell/dp/B000J55YLQ/

"Stop-Loss"  [Paramount March 2008]

A decorated U.S. Marine war hero back home in Texas from Iraq has a rough time settling back into civilian life, then is called back to duty. Co-produced, co-written & directed by Kimberly Peirce; starring Ryan Phillippe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Channing Tatum, Abbie Cornish, Rob Brown, Victor Rasuk, Terry Quay, Matthew Scott Wilcox, Connett Brewer, Timothy Olyphant, Josef Sommer & Linda Emond color DVD from Amazon - click for email notification full credits from IMDb • official moviesite {Flash required}

"The  Tillman  Story" [Weinstein Aug 2010]

Pat Tillman quit his pro football career to enlist in the Army and go to Afghanistan, where he was killed; he was honored as a hero by the government and by the media. But his parents had trouble finding out the truth, and showed their heroism by not stopping their battle against the cover-up of the facts of Tillman's death. Directed by Amir Bar-Lev; script by Mark Monroe DVD/Blu-ray not available • credits at IMDb • official movie site Pat Tillman entry at Wikipedia

"21  Days  To  Baghdad"
[National Geographic documentary video July 2003]

National Geographic color DVD [7/2003] for $17.99 minimal credits at IMDb

"Uncovered:  The  Whole  Truth  About  The  Iraq  War"
[Mirage Nov 2002; limited release Aug 2004]

Produced & directed by Robert Greenwald Cinema Libre color DVD [5/2005] for $13.46 Disinformation Co. color DVD [3/2004] for $9.95 full credits from IMDb • official movie website

"The Veteran"  [for 2011? release]

Explores how the war on terror and the war on drugs are controlled & manipulated directly and indirectly by governments, from the soldiers on the front line to the drug dealers on the streets of Britain, viewed thru a young soldier returning to London from Afghanistan who is targeted as a clandestine operative to monitor suspected terrorists in the U.K. Co-written & directed by Matthew Hope; co-written by Robert Henry Craft & Adam Tysoe; starring Toby Kebbell, Ashley Thomas, Adi Bielski & Tom Brooke; DVD/Blu-ray not yet available • full credits at IMDb

"Wag The Dog"  [1997]: full credits at IMDb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnSauj2855M

"War  In  Iraq:  The  Road  To  Baghdad"
[CNN Presents June 2003]

WEA color DVD [7/2003] for $13.46 WEA color VHS [7/2003] for $9.45 no listing on IMDb; C.N.N. official movie site

"The  War  Tapes"
[independent documentary film June 2006]

"The first war movie filmed by soldiers themselves" Three U.S. National Guardsmen sent to Iraq were provided with video cameras; they captured candid and gut-wrenching footage of the camaraderie, humor, and brutal & terrifying experiences of their unforgettable journey. Directed by Deborah Scranton; won for Best Documentary at 2006 Tribeca Film Festival Docurama color DVD [5/2007] for $23.99 full credits from IMDb • official movie site

"Zero Dark Thirty: The Greatest Manhunt In History"
[Columbia/Sony Dec 2012]

Working title "Killing bin Laden"; follows 'the capture of the world’s most wanted terrorist'; scheduled for Oct 2012 release; announced 11/2011: The film was originally going to shoot in Pakistan, where bin Laden was captured; after being denied access by the Pakistani government, Bigelow moved production to the Indian town of Chandigarh, where local Hindus protested making the set area appear Pakistani! A docudrama about the decade-long hunt for al-Qaeda terrorist leader Osama bin Laden, from the 9/11 attacks to his death at the hands of U.S. Navy S.E.A.L. Team 6 in May 2011. Directed by Kathryn Bigelow; written by Mark Boal; starring Taylor Kinney, Jessica Chastain, Scott Adkins, Chris Pratt, Joel Edgerton, Ricky Sekhon; five Oscar noms for Best Picture, Best Actress, Best Original Screenplay, Best Editing & Best Sound {won} – with an outcry about Bigelow not being nominated for Best Director full credits at IMDb • official movie site

The  War  in  VietNam

Been there, done that.

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"Apocalypse Now" [Zoetrope Aug 1979]

A movie like no other: Wild and weird, cuts to the bone about the madness of war . . Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, script by John Milius, based on a Joseph Conrad novella; starring Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall, Marlon Brando, Dennis Hopper, Harrison Ford & Frederic Forrest; won Oscars for Cinematography & Sound, nominated for Best Picture, Director, Script, Supporting Actor, Editing & Art Direction full credits from IMDb LionsGate widescreen color Blu-ray [10/2010] 3 disks for $31.99 Elektra soundtrack CD [8/88] 2 disks out of prodn/used "Apocalypse Now" posters at AllPosters.com "Apocalypse Now Redux" [15 August 2001]: re-release with never-before-seen 49 minutes added "Redux" info at IMDb "Apocalypse Now: The Complete Dossier" DVD box set [2006] Paramount widescreen color DVD [8/2006] 2 disks for $13.99 includes the complete 1981 release and the complete 2001 'Redux' release, plus outtakes, commentary & featurettes

more details (synopsis, books, re-release, posters, links) on
Magic Lantern's "Apocalypse Now" 1979 Movie Page

"Born On The Fourth of July" [1989]: full credits at IMDb

"Going Upriver: The Long War of John Kerry"
[2004 documentary]: full credits at IMDb

"Good Times, Wonderful Times" [1966]
70-minute docufilm by Lionel Rogosin - 'one of the great antiwar films of the VietNam Era'

"The  Pentagon  Papers"
[Paramount tv special March 2003]

Daniel Ellsberg, an analyst for RAND Corp. and the U.S. government who supported the war in VietNam became disillusioned when he discovered classified Defense Dept. documents that detailed the deliberate fabrication of reasons to go to war in Southeast Asia. Convinced that the American people deserve to know the truth, he risked his career, his freedom, and even his life to expose the duplicity of the U.S. war machine. Directed by Rod Holcomb; script by Jason Horwitch; starring James Spader, Claire Forlani, Paul Giamatti, Alan Arkin, Kenneth Welsh, Maria del Mar, Sean McCann, James Downing, Richard Fitzpatrick & Jonas Chernick; script won WGA's Paul Selvin Honorary Award Paramount color DVD [2/2004] for $17.99 full credits at IMDb

"Oliver Stone's Platoon" [1986]: full credits at IMDb

"The Quiet American" [Mirage Nov 2002]

	Directed by Phillip Noyce; based on the novel by Grahame Green; starring Michael Caine, Brendan Fraser & Do Thi Hai Yen; listed AFI Best 10 Films of 2002; Oscar nomination for Best Actor (Caine) Miramax widescreen DVD [9/2004] for $17.39 Buena Vista color VHS [2/2004] for $14.99 Varese soundtrack CD [3/2003] for $14.99 full credits from IMDb
	based on the 1955 novel by Grahame Green Penguin Classics 8.4x5½ pb [9/2004] for $11.20 Penguin Classics pb [11/2002] for $10.40 Modern Library hardcover [10/92] for $10.47 Blackstone UNABR audio CD [2/2003] for $32.95 Blackstone UNABR audio [2/2003] for $19.77 M.B.A.P. ABR audio [10/2003] for $10.39 Blackstone audio [8/97] for $41.94

"The Ugly American" [Universal April 1963]

The hero of the novel is an ugly chicken farmer from Iowa; the movie looks at the causes of the VietNam war (filmed before the war began). Directed by George Englund; loosely based on the novel; starring Marlon Brando, Eiji Okada, Sandra Church, Pat Hingle, Arthur Hill & Jocelyn Brando Universal widescreen color DVD [8/2003] for $12.99 Universal color VHS [10/92] out of prodn/used full credits at IMDb

"The Ugly American" [1958 bestseller] by William J. Lederer & Eugene Burdick W.W. Norton 8¼x5½ pb [1/99] for $11.16 Fawcett pb [9/87] out of print/used Fawcett pb [1/85] out of print/used W.W. Norton hardcover [6/58] out of print/used

The Cold War
"Let us not be deceived: We are today in the midst of a cold war."
— financier Bernard M. Baruch
(in a speech at South Carolina's Capitol Building, 16 April 1947)

The Wende Museum & Archive of The Cold War [est. 2002] in Culver City, California

	"Atomic Bomb Cinema: The Apocalyptic Imagination on Film" [2001] by Jerome F. Shapiro Routledge 9x5¼ pb [11/2001] for $29.95 Routledge library 9¼x6¼ hardcover [11/2001] for $106.00
	"Legacy of Ashes: The History of The C.I.A." [2007] by Tim Weiner listed #4 on TIME Top Ten Best Non-Fiction Books of The Year (12/2007) Doubleday 9½x6¼ hardcover [6/2007] for $16.77 Blackstone UNABR CD-ROM narrated by Stefan Rudnicki [6/2007] for $29.67

Atomic Film Festival Page at Spirit of America Bookstore
includes features & doumentaries "The Atomic Cafe" [1982]; "The Day After Trinity" [1981]; "Day One" [1989];
"Dr. Teller's Very Large Bomb" [2006]; "Fat Man and Little Boy" [1989]; "Japan's Longest Day" [1967];
"Radio Bikini" [1987]; "Trinity and Beyond" [1995] - and many more

Atomic U.S.A. Pages at Spirit of America Bookstore
Atomic U.S.A. Books Page at Spirit of America Bookstore

"The Bedford Incident" [1965]
Starring Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier & James MacArthur; full credits at IMDb

"Dr. Strangelove: or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Bomb" [1964]
Co-written & directed by Stanley Kubrick; starring Peter Sellers, George C. Scott,
Sterling Hayden, Keenan Wynn & Slim Pickens; full credits at IMDb
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gXY3kuDvSU

"Fail Safe"
1962 film by Sidney Lumet: full credits at IMDb
2000 tv movie by Stephen Frears: full credits at IMDb

"The Hunt For Red October" [1990]: full credits at IMDb

"The Ipcress File" [1965]: full credits at IMDb

"The Looking Glass War" [1965]
Starring Ralph Richardson, Anthony Hopkins, Pia Degermark & Susan George; full credits at IMDb

"The Manchurian Candidate"

1962 film by John Frankenheimer
full credits at IMDb; listed on Time Magazine's All-TIME 100 Movies (10/2005)

2004 film by Jonathan Demme: full credits at IMDb

"The Missiles of October"

"Seven  Days  In  May"
[Paramount/Seven Arts Feb 1964]

After the U.S. President decides to sign a nuclear disarmament treaty with the Soviets, a Marine colonel discovers that the Pentagon's Joint Chiefs are plotting a coup d'etat to take over the government seven days hence. Directed by John Frankenheimer; script by Rod Serling, based on the novel {below}; starring Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Fredric March, Ava Gardner, Edmond O'Brien, Martin Balsam & Andrew Duggan Warner widescreen b&w DVD [5/2000] for $17.99 Warner b&w VHS [6/97] out of prodn/used full credits from IMDb

based on the 1962 novel by Fletcher Knebel & Charles W. Bailey II Bantam mass pb [6/79] out of print/used Weidenfeld & Nicolson mass pb [1/63] out of print/used Harper & Row hardcover [1/62] out of print/used

"The Spy Who Came In from The Cold" [1965]
full credits at IMDb

"Strategic Air Command" [1955]: full credits at IMDb
Directed by Anthony Mann; starring James Stewart & June Allyson

"Thirteen Days" [2000]: full credits at IMDb

"War Games" [M.G.M. 1983]
Matthew Broderick as a teenage video gamer who hacks into a military supercomputer
and comes close to starting World War III • full credits at IMDb

"War Games: The Dead Code" remake [2008 video release]: full credits at IMDb

Announced 6/2011: Seth Gordon will direct a remake of 1983's “War Games”;
in August, Noah Oppenheim signed to write the script

The  United  Nations  Police  Action  in  Korea

America got whupped by the evil Chine'e.

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"The Coldest Winter: America and The Korean War" [2007] by David Halberstam Hyperion 9¼x6½ hardcover [9/2007] for $20.99

"The Bridges At Toko-Ri" [Paramount Dec 1954]
Based on the James A. Michener novel; starring William Holden, Grace Kelly,
Fredric March, Mickey Rooney, Keiko Awaji & Earl Holliman
video or DVD • full credits at IMDb

"Fixed Bayonets!" [1951]
Written & directed by Samuel Fuller; video/DVD not available; full credits at IMDb

"Inchon" [1981]
Starring Laurence Olivier {as Gen. Douglas MacArthur}, Jacqueline Bisset, Ben Gazzara, Toshirô Mifune,
Richard Roundtree & David Janssen; video/DVD not available; full credits at IMDb

"M*A*S*H" [1970]
Directed by Robert Altman [1925-2006]; starring Donald Sutherland, Elliott Gould, Tom Skerritt,
Sally Kellerman, Gary Burghoff, Rene Auberjonois & Robert Duvall; full credits at IMDb

"M*A*S*H" TV series [1972-83] /tt0068098/

"1950" [release 2013?]
Announced 7/2011: Producers CJ E&M Pictures and Grapevine Entertainment; Rob Cohen will direct;
the story of legendary New York Herald Tribune correspondent Marguerite Higgins, who first had to overcome
sexism and bias in order to be able to cover the war on the frontlines in Korea; her dispatches while 'embedded'
with a U.S. Army platoon during the mass evacuation of hundreds of thousands of South Koreans in the face of
advancing Chinese & North Korean troops won her a Pulitzer Prize • latest info at IMDb

"Pork Chop Hill" [1959]
Directed by Lewis Milestone; starring Gregory Peck, Harry Guardino,
Rip Torn, George Peppard, Bob Steele & Woody Strode; full credits at IMDb

"Sayônara" [Warner Bros. Dec 1957]
Directed by Joshua Logan; based on the book by James A. Michener: starring Marlon Brando,
James Garner, Miiko Taka, Miyoshi Umeki & Red Buttons; full credits at IMDb

"The Steel Helmet" [1953]
Written & directed by Samuel Fuller; video/DVD not available; full credits at IMDb

World War II
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World War I
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The War Between the States
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The Revolutionary War & War of 1812
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Wars in Ancient Times
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Miscellaneous Wars  &  Peacetime Military
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