Vietnam War & Anti-War Film 
This paper will be concerned with the Vietnam
War and the anti-
war film. Most critics have agreed that true antiwar films are virtually impossible to achieve. ....
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APOCALYPSE NOW AS AN HISTORICAL DOCUMENT
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war itself. Even a previous Vietnam
War film, The Green Berets, was largely a pro-American, pro-
war piece. This analysis considers ....
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Gallipolio
.... Although the
film "Gallipoli" uses the
war as a vehicle to illuminate the themes of mateship and nationhood, it is an anti-
war film. ....
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Documentary Film, The Fog of War
.... from Morris. McNamara often provides his lessons learned from a career of being the architect of
war in the
film. The first two ....
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War on Drugs in the Film "Traffic"
The recent
film Traffic (Steven Soderbergh, 2000) suggests many of the reasons why the
war on drugs has seemed doomed to failure, based on the economics of the ....
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HBO Film, One Man's War
The
film One Man's
War, produced for Home Box Office and directed by Sergio Toledo in 1990, is an example of the television docudrama, a drama based on real ....
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Film Analysis: Apocalypse Now
Francis Ford Coppola's take on Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness via the Vietnam
War in the
film Apocalypse Now was nominated for eight Academy Awards. ....
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War Movies
Throughout
film history,
war films have stirred emotions of viewers as they portray the horror of
war. Even "flag-waving"
war films ....
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The Fog of War
.... from Morris. McNamara often provides his lessons learned from a career of being the architect of
war in the
film. The first two ....
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Why We Fight: Prelude to War
The Frank Capra
film Why We Fight - Prelude to
War divides the world in two sides, one good and one evil. The good side is the US ....
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Film Contemporary & Earlier Periods
.... We see the experimentation with drugs, rock-and-roll, civil rights movement, Vietnam
War protest, and women's liberation that were .... Breaking Away, (
Film). ....
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Depictions of War
.... in the
film Henry V (1989, Kenneth Branagh), the Battle of Waterloo in the book The Face of Battle by John Keegan, and World
War I in the
film Paths of Glory ....
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Swingers and The War at Home
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film. Neither
film has a look that is distractingly 'low-budget.' In The
War at Home the
film might suffer from any such look. But ....
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Tora!Tora!Tora! & Black Hawk Down
.... In many ways, Scott believes "Black Hawk Down" is an anti-
war film. .... Scott's
film also paints a negative picture of those involved in the violent Civil
War. ....
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The 1964 film Dr. Strangelove
.... On the Beach shows the aftermath of a nuclear
war and is a
film tied more to the concerns of the 1950s. The 1960s showed a shift in thinking about the issue. ....
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Film Noir
.... The vision of America in the future harks back to the problems after World
War II, the problems that evoked the
film noir style, including excessive ....
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Violence in Film
.... through in the violent sequences, and the whole
film has the look and feel of a farce, though it is at the same time a serious exploration of
war and the ....
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The film and television versions of M*A*S*H
The
film version was a dark comedy that took dead aim at America's involvement in Vietnam by targeting the hypocrisy of the people behind the Korean
War. ....
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Hollywood War Films
.... The irony of this is that even in a
film like Three Kings where the soldiers are aware of Wilfred Owen's sentiment that
war is anything but honorable, the ....
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Film: Historical Accuracy
.... In Glory, a
film that depicts an all-black Civil
War troop and its white commander, Robert Gould Shaw, historians contend that the
film is a great historical ....
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Japanese Characters in Film: The Cheat, Sayonara and Rising Sun
.... However, given the backdrop of the Korean
War and the attitude of the military toward interracial marriage, the
film nevertheless depicts Orientals as "others ....
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History & Evolution of American Silent Film
.... 20th Century, notably World
War I. The Great
War "placed the American
film industry in a position of undisputed economic and artistic leadership" (Cook 48). ....
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Film Noir Style of Blade Runner
.... The vision of America in the future harks back to the problems after World
War II, the problems that evoked the
film noir style, including excessive ....
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Issue of Drug Abuse in a Film & Two Books
.... The
film depicts drug use among the wealthier class, featuring a group of young .... the barrio and comes to certain conclusions regarding the drug
war America is ....
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Director Edward Dmytryk
.... death during the
War. Powell's character is an excellent example of the post-
War Film Noir anti-hero. Gerard meets an assortment ....
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War Games
.... The
film is not as futuristic as many might wish, and the sort of intrusion of .... are intended to be benevolent--he is playing a game, not trying to start a
war. ....
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THE COLD WAR
.... all communist and communist-sympathizers in the US A direct reaction to the Cold
War being waged between the US and the former Soviet Union, in the
film we see ....
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Film Noir & Neo-Noir
Film Noir is a cinematic style that dominated post World
War II Hollywood films. "Throughout the 1940s, a stylistic and thematic ....
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DW Griffith and Film Technique
.... human anguish with the large scale battle, the effect of
war on an innocent family (Ellis 36). Griffith was able to give "voice" to his silent
film by his ....
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Film Noir
.... If the
film noir reflected the uncertain mood after world
War II, Chinatown can be seen as reflecting the disillusionment that America felt after the turmoil ....
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