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The story of the family who couldn’t stop adopting.
The story of the family who couldn’t stop adopting.
Nicholas Hune-Brown Toronto Life Jul 2020 25min Permalink
A friendship born out of the ruins of a nation, a dangerous journey home, and a 40-year search for the truth.
Brent Crane The Atavist Aug 2019 40min Permalink
The true story of M Company: from Fort Dix to Vietnam in 50 days.
Children engage in their own democratic process.
Keene Short Longleaf Review Oct 2018 Permalink
A profile of the documentary filmmaker.
Ian Parker New Yorker Sep 2017 30min Permalink
In 1970, he was plucked from Saigon to attend West Point. He got his degree and went home to fight, but instead spent six years in a reeducation camp. Then, somehow, he ended up teaching high school in D.C.
Chip Scanlan Washington Post Magazine Jul 1992 30min Permalink
The word was the Ia Drang would be a walk. The word was wrong. (Winner of the 1991 National Magazine Award and the basis for the We Were Soliders.)
Joseph L. Galloway U.S.News & World Report Jan 1990 35min Permalink
Half a century ago, an American commando vanished in the jungles of Laos. In 2008, he reappeared in Vietnam, reportedly alive and well. But nothing was what it seemed.
Matthew Shaer The Atavist Magazine Feb 2017 35min Permalink
It was the middle of the day in the steamy Philippine jungle and the sun was merciless. Director Francis Ford Coppola, dressed in rumpled white Mao pajamas, was slowly making his way upriver in a motor launch.
Maureen Orth Newsweek Jun 1977 15min Permalink
Five Vietnamese-American journalists were killed on American soil between 1981 and 1990. The prime suspects? Members of the National United Front for the Liberation of Vietnam, a group of former military commanders from South Vietnam.
A.C. Thompson ProPublica Nov 2015 1h Permalink
A reporter returns to My Lai.
Seymour Hersh New Yorker Mar 2015 30min Permalink
In March 1971, John and Bonnie Raines broke into an FBI office, stealing documents that revealed that the government was spying on its own citizens. Today, they’re hailed as heroes. Is this what the future holds for Edward Snowden?
Steve Volk Philadelphia Magazine Jan 2015 20min Permalink
On Pham Xuan An, Time’s Saigon correspondent during the Vietnam War, who led a double life as an intelligence agent for Ho Chi Minh.
Thomas A. Bass New Yorker May 2005 40min Permalink
On the film The Act of Killing, in which the actual perpetrators of a 1966-1966 Indonesian genocide recreate their own actions for the camera, and what it can tell us about our memories of the Vietnam War.
Errol Morris Slate Jul 2013 25min Permalink
Mementos left at the Vietnam Veterans Memorial and the man in charge of cataloging them.
Rachel Manteuffel Washingtonian Oct 2012 25min Permalink
On Jack Idema, a con-man who once ran a pet hotel before reinventing himself as a black-ops secret agent in Afghanistan, and the history of counterinsurgency theory.
Adam Curtis BBC Jun 2012 25min Permalink
Revealing the murder of 109 Vietnamese civilians during a 1968 search-and-destroy mission on a rumored Viet Gong stronghold, often referred to in military circles as Pinkville, actually the village of My Lai.
Seymour Hersh The St. Louis Post-Dispatch Nov 1969 20min Permalink
"I thought dying for your country was the worst thing that could happen to you, and I don't think it is. I think killing for your country can be a lot worse. Because that's the memory that haunts."
On February 25, 1969, Bob Kerrey led a raid into a Vietnamese peasant hamlet during which at least 13 unarmed women and children were killed.
Gregory L. Vistica New York Times Magazine Apr 2001 30min Permalink
Profiles of Vietnam veterans several years after returning home.
Tracy Kidder The Atlantic Mar 1978 50min Permalink
Adapting from his book The Gun, Chivers traces how the design and proliferation of small arms, originating from both the Pentagon and the Russian army, rerouted the 20th century.
C.J. Chivers Esquire Nov 2010 30min Permalink
A trip to interview former South Vietnamese premiere Ky on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the reunification of Vietnam ends with government surveillance, partying, and confusion.
The 1979 Oscars pitted Hal Ashby’s Coming Home against Michael Cimino’s The Deer Hunter, wildly different films both on the topic of the Vietnam War.
Peter Biskind Vanity Fair Mar 2008 40min Permalink
A 1970 review of Dennis Hopper’s Easy Rider.
Ellen Willis New York Review of Books Jan 1970 10min Permalink