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- Jacob's Ladder
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- Adrian Lyne
- "Director Adrian Lyne takes you on an intense, horrifying journey with a shocking ending that will haunt you forever.
Tim Robbins is Jacob Singer, a man who lives in a nightmare. Wounded in Vietnam, he's now back at home in New York City. Torn between the memories of his son and terrifying wartime demons. Jacob is slowly losing his grip on reality. His beautiful girlfriend only adds confusion to his life, drawing him into a web of sexual intrigue, but ultimately, it's his friend Louis, who turns out to be the only one Jacob can truly count on." -
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- Platoon (Special Edition)
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- "Winner of 4 Academy Awards including Best Picture and based on the firs-hand experiences of Oscar winning director Oliver Stone, Platoon is powerful, intense and starkly brutal. 'Harrowwingly realistic and completely convincing,' it is 'a dark, unforgettable memorial' to every soldier whose innocence was lost in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam.
Chris Taylor is a young, naive American who, upn his arrival in Vietnam, quickly discovers that he must do battle not only with the Viet Cong, but also with the gnawing fear, physical exhaustion and intense anger growing within him. While his two commanding officers draw a fine line between the war they wage against the enemy and the one they fight with each other, the conflict, the chaos and hatred to permeate Taylor, suffocating his realities and numbing his feelings to man's highest value...life." -
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- Hearts and Minds - Criterion Collection
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- Peter Davis
- "Peter Davis' landmark documentary Hearts and Minds unflinchingly confronts the United States' involvement in Vietnam. Using a wealth of sources--from interviews to newsreels to documentary footage of the conflict at hme and abroad--Davis constructs a powerfully affecting portrait of the disastrous effects of war. Hearts and Minds is an overwhelmingly emotional experience and the controversial winner of the 1974 Academy Award for Best Documentary."
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