Set between 1962 and 1974 this traces the story of three buddies from adolescent surfing champs to post-Vietnam trauma. As the times change they find their youth is lost until one vital Wednesday in 1974 when there is a Big Swell and they hit the waves again, superb.
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BULLET IN THE HEAD (1990)
Certification18 Our Rating
Three young Hong Kong hustlers move to Saigon to try and profit, smuggling penicillin and gold, from the war, but their friendship is tested to the limits through greed, betrayal and lust, amid the horrors of a war-torn Vietnam. Comparable to the 'Deer Hunter', this violent epic is the most ambitiously personal and political of John Woo's films, but still comes packed with guns, explosives and balletic action.
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CHE PART 1 (2008)
Certification15 Our Rating
A monumental history of the Cuban Revolution; from the initial meeting in Mexico between Che and Fidel Castro, through the landing by boat of a few desperadoes, the years of the guerrilla campaign, the gradual build-up from a rag-tag band to a fully fledged revolutionary army, the political alliances and decisions to be made, and the eventual victorious battles over the demotivated Batista led government army.
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CHE PART 2 (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
The second part of Steven Soderbergh's epic tale is about the efforts of the iconic revoluionary to repeat the success of the Cuban liberation struggle in the impoverished state of Bolivia.
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GARDENS OF STONE (1987)
Certification15 Our Rating
A poignant look at stateside military life during the Vietnam War, featuring outstanding performances by James Caan, James Earl Jones and Anjelica Huston and directed by Francis Ford Coppola.
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HEARTS AND MINDS (1974)
Certification15 Our Rating
This is a documentary about the conflicting attitudes of the opponents of the Vietnam war using archival footage as well as their own film and interviews. A key theme is how the attitudes of American racism and self-righteous militarism helped to create and prolong this bloody conflict. The film also endeavours to give voice to the Vietnamese people and makes clear their basic humanity. Winner of the Best Documentary Feature at the 1974 Academy Awards.
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MCCULLIN (2012)
CertificationE Our Rating
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PATH TO WAR (2007)
Certification15 Our Rating
As the successor to a martyred president, Lyndon B. Johnson sought to transform America into a 'Great Society' of equal opportunity. Instead, he became the symbol for the most unpopular war in U.S. history. Michael Gambon (as President Johnson), Donald Sutherland (as Clark Gifford) and Alec Baldwin (as Robert McNamara) star in a compelling drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams, set inside the LBJ White House in the volatile years leading up to and during Vietnam.
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PLATOON (1986)
Certification15 Our Rating
Oliver Stone's autobiographical account of life at the front in Vietnam deservedly swept the Oscars. It is particularly strong in portraying the tensions within the army social group between the brutal all-American rednecks and the more liberally inclined cynics.
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RESCUE DAWN (2006)
Certification12 Our Rating
The incredible true story of Dieter Dengler, a German-born US pilot shot down over Laos at the beginning of the Vietnam war and held captive in a beastly POW camp, and his subsequent escape to 'freedom'.
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