I thought I'd mention Outside the Wire again. It's a true pro-troop war documentary, out now, that you can buy on DVD. If you do buy it, let me know; I'd like to borrow it (I don't have a buy-DVDs-on-the-internet budget).
I heard a film historian say the other day that before World War 2, films were mostly positive and painted a rosy picture so that people could escape the harsh realities of real life. After WW2, the filmmakers no longer wanted fantasy but realism, and switched the emphasis of most films from escapism to social activism.
Post Vietnam, films (even the good ones) gloried in the vilification of American soldiers. But slowly the cultural tide is changing…
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