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Vietnam War Story II (1988)

Vietnam War Story II poster
Original title
Vietnam War Story: The Last Days
Directed by
Michael Toshiyuki Uno, Lesli Linka Glatter, Jack Sholder
Genre
historical film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 30m
Rating
8.0 of 10 from 1 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

Three separate short stories show different American soldiers during the Vietnam War. Each segment focuses on a personal experience or moral dilemma faced by men in combat.

sombergrittyreflectivetenseepisodicrestrainedcharacter-drivengrounded

What happens

Vietnam War Story II is a 1989 direct-to-video release of a collection of three episodes from the HBO anthology series Vietnam War Story (1987–1988). The video consisted of three 30-minute segments, each filmed by a different director. Each segment had been previously aired on HBO cable television. Vietnam War Story had nine episodes in total. The segments released on this particular VHS correspond to anthology episodes 4-6, as follows: "An Old Ghost Walks the Earth" (episode #4) "R & R" (episode #5) "The Fragging" (episode #6) (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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