Episode 96 - The ‘Nam! Movies About the Vietnam War

In 1992, Oliver Stone said, “John Ford makes Westerns. I make Vietnamers.” (No - seriously. He really said that.) And like John Ford with westerns, Oliver Stone may not have invented the genre, but he definitely dominated it with three films (or four, if you include “JFK”) about America’s first dalliance with imperial conquest and the war we couldn’t win. Join the gang this week as we explore the complicated genre of Vietnam War Movies - the good, the bad, and the jingoistic! | 0:00 - Intros | 3:45 - Stranger Things (Season 3) | 10:00 - Yesterday (2019) | 14:50 - Star Trek: Discovery (Season 1) | 19:10 - Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (book. Plokhii, 2018) | 23:05 - Black Mirror - Rachel, Jack, and Ashley Too | 27:05 - Vietnam movies | Clips | Scratching The Itch - Sex Cult Girl | The Dead Milkmen - Beach Party Vietnam | Timbuk 3 - The Future’s So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades | Kool & the Gang - Fresh / clip from Bridesmaids / B-Side - Change the Beat | Kyle Dixon and Michael Stein - Stranger Things (Theme) | Himesh Patel - Yesterday (From The Album “One Man Only”) - Yesterday (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Himesh Patel - Help! (Live At Pier Hotel) - Yesterday (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Jeff Russo - Main Title (aired Version) - Star Trek Discovery (Original Series Soundtrack) | Bomani “D’mite” Armah - Read A Book | Ashley O - On a Roll (Black Mirror) | Mentos Jingle / Outkast - So Fresh and So Clean / Devo - Fresh | Trailer for Missing In Action 2: The Beginning (1985) | Trailer for Casualties Of War (1989) | Trailer for Born On The Fourth Of July (1989) | Trailer for The Green Berets (1968) | Trailer for Apocalypse Now: Final Cut (1979) | Clip from Rambo: First Blood Part 2 (1985) | Metallica - One (official video) | Johnny Mandel - Suicide Is Painless | Clip from Platoon (1986) | Clip from Apocalypse Now (1979)