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DV000305
Vengeance valley.
Owen Daybright, foreman of the Strobie Ranch, has always protecte his younger
foster brother, the charming but self centered Lee Strobie. But when Lee's
infidelity sours his marriage and puts Owen's life at risk, jealousy leads
to betrayal and violent retribution. Starring Burt Lancaster, Joanne Dru,
Rober Walker, Sally Forrest, John Ireland. Directed by Richard Thorpe. MPAA
Rating NR. 82 minutes.
DV000235
Vietnam: a television history - part 1.
In Roots of War, despite cordial relations between American intelligence officers
and communist leader Ho Chi Minh in the turbulent closing months of WWII,
French and British hostility to the Vietnamese revolution lead the groundwork
for a new war. In the First Vietnam War (1945-1954), the French generals expected
to defeat Ho's rag tag Vietminh guerrillas easily, but after eight years of
fighting and $2.5 billion in US aid, the French lost a crucial battle at Dien
Bein Phu and with it, their Asian empire. MPAA Rating NR. 120 minutes.
DV0000236
Vietnam: a television history - part 2.
In America's Mandarin (1954-1963), to stop the spread of Communism in Southeast
Asia, America replaced France in South Vietnam, supporting autocratic President
Ngo Dinh Diem until his own generals turned against him in a coup that brought
political chaos to Saigon. In LBJ Goes to War (1964-1965), with Ho Chi Minh
determined to reunite Vietnam, President Lyndon B. Johnson determined to prevent
it and South Vietnam on the verge of collapse, the stage was set for massive
escalation of the undeclared Vietnam War. MPAA Rating NR. 120 minutes.
DV000237
Vietnam: a television history - part 3.
In America Takes Charge (1965-1967), the Johnson Administration's troop build
up dispatched 1.5 million Americans to Vietnam to fight a war they found baffling,
tedious, exciting, deadly and unforgettable. In America's Enemy (1954-1967),
the Vietnam War is seen from different perspectives by Vietcong guerrillas
and sympathizers, by the North Vietnamese leaders and the rank and file, and
by Americans help prisoner in Hanoi. MPAA Rating NR. 120 minutes.
DV000238
Vietnam: a television history - part 4.
In Tet 1968, the massive enemy offensive at the lunar new year decimated the
Vietcong and failed to topple the Saigon government but led to the beginning
of America's military withdrawal from Vietnam. In Vietnamizing the War (1968-1973),
Richard Nixon's program of troop pull outs, stepped up bombing and huge arms
shipments to Saigon changed the war and left GIs wondering which of them would
be the last to die in Vietnam. MPAA Rating NR. 120 minutes.
DV000239
Vietnam: a television history - part 5.
In Cambodia and Laos, American involvement in these two countries began in
1961, when President John Kennedy sent in teams of US Special Forces to aid
guerrillas against he Laotian communists and their North Vietnamese allies,
and continued through the resultant 1975 communist Khmer Rouge victory in
Cambodia. When the Khmer Rouge defeated the American backed government of
Lon Nol in 1975, an estimated two million peasant refugees faced starvation,
terror and eventually slaughter. In Peace is at Hand (1968-1973), while American
and Vietnamese soldiers continued to clash in battle, diplomats in Paris argued
about making peace. After more than four years, they reached an accord that
proved to be a preface to further bloodshed. MPAA Rating NR. 120 minutes.
DV000240
Vietnam: a television history - part 6.
In Home Front USA, through troubled years of controversy and violence, U.S.
casualties mounted, victory remained elusive and American opinion moved from
general approval to general dissatisfaction with the Vietnam War. In The End
of the Tunnel (1973-1975), South Vietnamese leaders believed that America
would never let them go down to defeat, a belief that died as North Vietnamese
tanks smashed into Saigon on April 30, 1975, and the long war ended with South
Vietnam's surrender. MPAA Rating NR. 120 minutes.
DV000241
Vietnam: a television history - part 7.
In Legacies, Vietnam is in the Soviet orbit, poorer than ever, and at war
on two fronts. America's legacy includes more than 500,000 refugees, two and
one half million Vietnam veterans and some questions that won't go away. MPAA
Rating NR. 60 minutes.
DV000371
Virus.
A military plane, whose cargo includes a deadly virus developed by the military
crashes. The virus spews from the wreckage, killing al humans except for a
few scientists stationed in Antarctic. Upon Learning of the disaster, the
two fold mission of the 855 men and eight women survivors of this worldwide
disaster is the survival of the human race and saving the planet from a thermonuclear
holocaust that will be unleashed by automated American and Soviet war machines.
Starring George Kennedy, Glenn Ford, Robert Vaughn, Chuck Connors, Olivia
Hussey. Directed by Kinji Fukasaku. MPAA Rating PG. 110 minutes.
DV000767
Voice of the fugitive & Fields of endless Day.
Two films that are moving tributes to the presence and contributions of black
people during their long history in Canada, from their first recorded visit
in 1606 through the first half of the 20th century. Voice of the fugitive
with George Ashley, James Bearden, Tracy Connell and Amah Harris. Directed
by Rene Bonniere.
Fields of endless day with Lili Clark, Winston Sutton, Ricardo Keens-Douglas
and Mireilla Metellus. Directed by Terrence McCartney Filgate. MPAA Rating
NR.