About the Book
Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 145. Chapters: Braveheart, Full Metal Jacket, Saving Private Ryan, Black Hawk Down, The Patriot, Wings, From Here to Eternity, The Best Years of Our Lives, The Deer Hunter, Paths of Glory, Doctor Zhivago, Schindler's List, Patton, Platoon, Coming Home, The Thin Red Line, Stalag 17, Empire of the Sun, The Last Samurai, The English Patient, Inglourious Basterds, Gone with the Wind, Letters from Iwo Jima, Jarhead, Flags of Our Fathers, Defiance, Born on the Fourth of July, All Quiet on the Western Front, Cold Mountain, Redacted, Flyboys, Hell's Angels, Miracle at St. Anna, The Way Back, Enemy at the Gates, Exodus, Courage Under Fire, In the Valley of Elah, Casualties of War, Holocaust, Stop-Loss, The Four Feathers, Conspiracy, 1969, The Messenger, Hart's War, Tigerland, Baker Boys: Inside the Surge, Mother Night, Beau Geste, Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Faith of My Fathers, Home of the Brave, The Grey Zone, Johnny Got His Gun, The Big Lift, Everyman's War, Three Came Home, The War at Home, A Midnight Clear, Somewhere in France, Birdy, The Black Watch, Hanna's War, The Beginning or the End, In Love and War, Battle at Bloody Beach, Beautiful Dreamer, Beloved Enemy, Keep Your Powder Dry, Sniper's Ridge, Aerial Gunner. Excerpt: The Deer Hunter is a 1978 American war drama film co-written and directed by Michael Cimino about a trio of Rusyn American steel worker friends and their infantry service in the Vietnam War. The film stars Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, John Savage, John Cazale, and George Dzundza. The story takes place in Clairton, a small working class town on the Monongahela River south of Pittsburgh and then in Vietnam, somewhere in the woodland and in Saigon, during the Vietnam War. The film was based in part on a screenplay called "The Man Who Came To Play" by Louis Garfink...