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John Wayne's 'The Green Berets' Redefined the War Genre (in a Bad Way)

No film so perfectly encapsulates the generation gap in America in the '60s than John Wayne's corny Vietnam War epic, The Green Berets. The genre has reached such a level of ubiquity and cliché that ...
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John Wayne Starred in One of the First Vietnam War Movies, and Botched the Mission

As a factory of escapist entertainment, Hollywood understandably didn't want to touch the Vietnam War in the late 1960s. Every day, Americans turned on their televisions to watch extensive war ...
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Absolutely Nothing Could Salvage John Wayne’s Biggest, Most Controversial Failure — Not Even the White House

Namwene Mukabwa is a Collider author based in Nairobi, Kenya. He has a penchant for Westerns, classics, historical, and underrated movies and television series. He became hooked on screens at the age ...
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FBI demands footage from doc about ex-Green Beret who plotted Venezuela coup— but director plans to fight back

It’s the FBI’s most wanted film. The Post is told that the bureau has requested some 100 hours of footage used in making the new documentary “Men of War,” after an FBI agent and a federal prosecutor ...