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Vietnam War

Posted inFilm

Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland’s Long-Lost Comedy Tour for Antiwar Troops

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel March 4, 2021March 3, 2021

Suppressed upon release and stuck in obscurity for decades, the Vietnam War documentary F.T.A. has been restored.

Posted inFilm

Films That Tell Unique Tales About the Veteran Experience

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel November 10, 2020November 12, 2020

For Veterans Day, here are some movies that don’t fit mainstream narratives about military service.

Posted inFilm

This Independence Day, Stream Films That Offer More Critical Takes on “Liberty and Justice for All”

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel July 2, 2020June 30, 2022

I’m not saying that this is what you should do instead of watching Hamilton on Disney+, but I’m not not saying it either.

Posted inArt

The Timely Dissent of a Vietnam War-Themed Show

Avatar photo by Suzaan Boettger April 16, 2019April 28, 2019

Less than a mile from the White House, the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Artists Respond boldly surveys how artists wrestled with showing how their government had gone wrong.

Posted inArt

Danh Vo’s Elegy for Democracy

by Christopher Lyon March 31, 2018March 30, 2018

Drawing on many genres and styles, Vo meditates on history, freedom, love, faith, and death.

Posted inFilm

In Ken Burns’s Vietnam War Documentary, Claims of Objectivity Obscure Patriotic Bias

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel October 27, 2017April 15, 2021

By accepting patriotic doctrine even as it claims to present all sides, the epic documentary takes some slippery liberties with truth and history.

Posted inArt

At a Hanoi Prison Museum, a History Too Painful to Aestheticize

by Ellen Pearlman December 23, 2015December 22, 2015

HANOI, Vietnam — The “Hanoi Hilton” is the sarcastic nickname bestowed by US prisoners of war on the Hoa Lo prison in Hanoi, formerly North Vietnam.

Posted inArt

Gaming the Pop Culture Fantasy of the Vietnam War

Avatar photo by Allison Meier July 16, 2015July 16, 2015

Pop culture fetishization of war and violence of video games are explored with vivid watercolor-based animation in Eddo Stern’s Vietnam Romance, on view at Postmasters gallery in Tribeca.

Posted inArt

The Polyglot Lineage of Vietnamese Propaganda Art

by Ellen Pearlman March 10, 2015March 17, 2015

When Ho Chi Minh, the father of current-day Vietnam retreated north to regroup during the French Indochina war of 1946, he was accompanied by a number of artists.

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