For many Americans, especially the Americans born after the Vietnam War ended in 1975, the image of the dispute that controversial and controversy was forged by Hollywood: “Revelation”. “Deer hunting.” “Platoon.” “Full Metal Jacket.”
However, it is as powerful as those step -up moments (you can forget that Robert Dubal will guide the helicopter attack with “Revelation”), and the Vietnamese image is replaced with a miserable scene that has been pulled out of reality. Ready to prepare.
His new Apple TV+documentary series, the War That War That America, the UK director Rob ColdStream “And his team is 1,000 hours I poured the archive video and spent a year. Read countless war accounts.
Their mission: Tell the intimate story of a veteran on both sides of the conflict, through images found by those protagonists. They watch a stunning video tape, track aging veterinarians, read shocking accounts, and dig up their original images.
As a result, titles such as “ground boots” and “rebellion” hold an episode that telegraphs dramas. This series, which is narrated with a serious tone by actor Ethan Hawk, claims nearly 60,000 US life, focusing on a very personal story that looks like a ready -made movie script. Explore the political story of the conflict of fate.
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“I deeply attacked me, for many of these people we spoke, their Vietnamese experience lasted six months, half a century ago, but they still went there. The cold stream says.
For example, at the age of 25, he left Oxford’s scholarship, led him to the disillusioned teenager platoon, which was a remote trigger away from killing him. “Vietnam” is Brills, a writer who has continued to create the 1980s television series “Chaimai Beach”, and one of these platrots is a tension era of emotionally reuniting at the bar in 50 years. We share reflection.
Rally Chambers, who led the aircraft USS Midway during the war, is also available.
When a small plane in Southern Vietnamese fighters asked a small plane that his wife and 5 -year -old son requested to land, Chamber’s ignored the order and pressed the helicopter from the ship to clean up the airplane. I said to. We not only glimpse the chopper scattered in the sea, but also meet the pilot’s son in decades after the event.
Military DJ John Bagwell, sandwiched behind the enemy line, knew it would be killed or killed.
There is John Bagwell, a sunny and fresh DJ surrounded by northern Vietnamese soldiers during the violent Tet attack in 1968.
“We have nine people,” says the bag well. “Five people became prisoners, three were killed, I managed to escape and spent two days behind the enemy’s route before finding the army.”
Bagwell, who was so bitter and forced to kill enemy soldiers during the fleeing, said that talking about his experience was catharsis. He just wants more veterans to do the same.
“I got it. It was a tough experience for many people. I have five words to me in 50 years about his time in Vietnam,” he said. Says. “But many of us are old and never be here anymore. It’s good to hear the story.”
In contrast, Bagwell clearly recalls his state’s return. With the expectation of applause, a veteran like him was regarded as a heroic position for communism or was considered a waste of young American life. Faced the anger of the swelling anti -war movement of the country that competed with neighboring people.
However, over the years, the bagwell said that his attitude changed. “I have a hat called Vietnamese veterinarian, and when I use it to step into the cracker barrel, people can thank my services and buy meals.” He says. “That’s great because it wasn’t 50 years ago.”
“Vietnam” does not avoid featuring an interview with the elderly northern Vietnamese soldiers.
“Vietnam” is illuminated because it focuses on human stories. It is a report as a reporter, whether it is the story of two best friends who temporarily broke when one of them became an anti -war leader, or the story of the wife of a foreign correspondent who wants to prove themselves. Round the notebook and tape recorder between Hugh’s terrible battle. “Vietnam” features a rough, interrupted and exposed image 50 years ago, and has a fresh face, enthusiastic, big eyes, and scary.
Interesting interviews with the northern Vietnamese enemy, known as Vietnam, explain what they were fighting for and how they were patient in their native language, and all US military that won the Saigon capital. It will lead to withdrawal of conditions.
It is these passionate voices on both sides that more than 2 million Vietnamese have been killed in one of the most bloody disputes in the world.
“I didn’t want this series to be a big downer. This is why we came to focus on the forged relationship,” says ColdStream. “Finding what we did was just a dream of a filmmaker, whether it was an audio of our special interviews or a video.”