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  • The Scar That Binds

    American Culture and the Vietnam War

    by Keith Beattie ...
    At the height of the Vietnam War, American society was so severely fragmented that it seemed that Americans may never again share common concerns. The media and other commentators represented the impact of the war through a variety of rhetorical devices, most notably the emotionally charged metaphor of "the wound that will not heal." References in various contexts to veterans' attempts to find a ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Humphrey Jennings

    by Keith Beattie ...
    Series series British Film-Makers
    Humphrey Jennings has been described as the only real poet that British cinema has produced. His documentary films are remarkable records of Britain at peace and war, and his range of representational approaches transcended accepted notions of wartime propaganda and revised the strict codes of British documentary film of the 1930s and 1940s.Poet, propagandist, surrealist and documentary filmmaker ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • D. A. Pennebaker

    Interviews

    Edited by Keith Beattie, Trent Griffiths ...
    Series series Conversations with Filmmakers Series
    This wide-ranging and insightful collection of interviews with D. A. Pennebaker (1925–2019) spans the prolific career of this pioneer of observational cinema. From the 1950s, Pennebaker made documentary films that revealed the world of politics, celebrity culture, and the music industry. Following his early collaborations with Robert Drew on a number of works for television, his feature-length ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • A Sniper in the Arizona

    2nd Battalion, 5th Marines in the Arizona Territory, 1967

    by John Culbertson ...
    "Morning was always a welcome sight to us. It meant two things. The first was that we were still alive. . . ."In 1967, death was the constant companion of the Marines of Hotel Company, 2/5, as they patrolled the paddy dikes, mud, and mountains of the Arizona Territory southwest of Da Nang. But John Culbertson and most of the rest of Hotel Company were the same lean, fighting Marines who had ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Tempest (Illustrated)

    by William Shakespeare ...
    The Tempest is set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skillful manipulation. He conjures up a storm, the eponymous tempest, to cause his usurping brother Antonio and the complicit King Alonso of Naples to believe they are shipwrecked and marooned on the island. There, his ... Read more

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  • Vietnam Medal of Honor Heroes

    Expanded and Revised Edition

    by Edward F. Murphy ...
    More than 100 compelling, true stories of personal heroism and valor– in a special expanded edition honoring courage in the face of warHere are dramatic accounts of the fearless actions that earned American soldiers in Vietnam our highest military distinction–the Medal of Honor. Edward F. Murphy, head of the Medal of Honor Historical Society, re-creates the heroic acts of individual soldiers from ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Long Gray Line

    The American Journey of West Point's Class of 1966

    by Rick Atkinson, Rick Atkinson ...
    The New York Times bestseller about West Point's Class of 1966, by Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Rick Atkinson."A story of epic proportions [and] an awesome feat of biographical reconstruction."—The Boston GlobeA classic of its kind, The Long Gray Line is the twenty-five-year saga of the West Point class of 1966. With a novelist's eye for detail, Rick Atkinson (author of the ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Interstellar

    The Complete Screenplay With Selected Storyboards

    by Christopher Nolan, Jonathan Nolan ...
    In Interstellar a group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.The screenplay of Interstellar is written by Christopher Nolan and his frequent collaborator, Jonathan Nolan.In addition to the screenplay, this screenplay book also contains over 200 pages of storyboards and ... Read more

    $11.89 USD

  • Khe Sanh: Siege in the Clouds

    by Eric Hammel ...
    KHE SANH: Siege in the Clouds, An Oral History by Eric Hammel From critcally acclaimed military historian Eric Hammel comes a vivid oral history account of the Tet 1968 siege of the Khe Sanh Combat Base. The words of American fighting men caught up in the grueling, deadly seventy-seven-day ordeal create a harrowing tapestry of tragedy and triumph. = As two North Vietnamese Army divisions move to ... Read more

    $8.69 USD

  • Rwanda 1994. A Witness to Genocide

    by Amadou Deme ...
    Genre: Action, DramaLanguage: EnglishLog-Line: An ex Army Officer returns to Rwanda with his wife in present day, and his memory takes him back to the violent days he spent with the UN peacekeeping forces; how he endeavored everyday to save as many lives as he could, during the bloodiest man-made disaster of history; the Rwandan genocide of 1994; which took the lives of 1 million people in 100 ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Independent Ed

    Inside a Career of Big Dreams, Little Movies, and the Twelve Best Days of My Life

    by Edward Burns, Todd Gold ...
    An entertaining and inspirational memoir by one of the most prominent practitioners and evangelists of independent filmmaking, and the acclaimed writer, director, and actor (Saving Private Ryan, Friends with Kids, Entourage) whose first film—The Brothers McMullen—has become an indie classic.At the age of twenty-five, Ed Burns directed and produced his first film on a tiny $25,000 budget. The ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Black Virgin Mountain

    A Return to Vietnam

    by Larry Heinemann ...
    In 1967 Larry Heinemann was sent to Vietnam as an ordinary soldier. It was the most horrific year of his life, truly altering him—and his family—forever. In his powerful memoir, Heinemann returns to Vietnam, riding the train from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh city and confronting the memories of his war year. Black Virgin Mountain confirms Heinemann’s legendary plain-spoken reputation as one of the ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

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