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Episode 8: “I Love America”
In the eighth and final episode of our podcast series about how Hollywood took on the Vietnam War, host Brian Raftery talks to Oliver Stone about his Oscar-winning hit ‘Born on the Fourth of July’—and examines why the U.S. decided to move on from Vietnam in the ’90s.
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Episode 7: “Ain’t War Hell”
In Episode 7 of our narrative podcast about how Hollywood portrayed the Vietnam War, host Brian Raftery looks at the wave of high-profile Vietnam films that arrived in the wake of ‘Platoon’ and dominated the late ’80s—including Stanley Kubrick’s dark-hearted classic ‘Full Metal Jacket’
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Episode 6: “I Am Reality”
‘Do We Get to Win This Time?’ is a podcast about how Vietnam movies have shaped the way we think about the Vietnam War. In Episode 6, host Brian Raftery talks to Oliver Stone about the making of his 1986 Vietnam War classic, ‘Platoon.’
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Brian Raftery on ‘Do We Get to Win This Time?’
The journalist and author joins to discuss his new podcast about Hollywood’s depictions of the Vietnam War
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Episode 5: “Nothing Is Over”
‘Do We Get to Win This Time?’ is a podcast about how Vietnam movies have shaped the way we think about the Vietnam War. In Episode 5, host Brian Raftery takes a deep dive into the first two Rambo movies.
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Episode 4: “Little by Little, We Went Insane”
‘Do We Get to Win This Time?’ is a podcast about how Vietnam movies have shaped the way we think about the Vietnam War. In Episode 4, host Brian Raftery tells the story of Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Apocalypse Now.’
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Episode 3: “What a Strange Country”
‘Do We Get to Win This Time?’ is a podcast about how Vietnam movies have shaped the way we think about the Vietnam War. In Episode 3, host Brian Raftery compares the production and reception of two very different films about Vietnam vets returning from war that premiered within weeks of each other in 1978: ‘The Deer Hunter’ and ‘Coming Home.’
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Episode 2: “I Just Don’t Talk About It”
In Episode 2, host Brian Raftery looks at how mainstream Hollywood tried to dodge the war in the early ’70s—while a series of gritty underground films brought the combat to moviegoers across the country.
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Introducing ‘Do We Get to Win This Time?’
‘Do We Get to Win This Time?’ is a podcast about how Vietnam movies have shaped the way we think about the Vietnam War. In the first episode, host Brian Raftery tells the stories of early Vietnam movies like John Wayne’s ‘The Green Berets’ and the piercing documentary ‘Hearts and Minds.’
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Sharks, Alligators, Piranhas, and the Top 10 Garbage Fish Movies
Brian Raftery discusses his upcoming series ‘Do We Get to Win This Time? How Hollywood Made the Vietnam War,’ and Sean and Chris create the Garbage Fish canon