Film and Book Recommendations

March 27, 2024

VMF Film and Book Recommendations April 2024

FILM RECOMMENDATION Watch the Trailer War, deception, and art come together in Rick Beyer’s documentary The Ghost Army, the astonishing true story of American G.I.s — many of whom would......
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February 27, 2024

VMF Film and Book Recommendations March 2024

FILM RECOMMENDATION Watch the Trailer Medal of Honor is a mix of interviews, reenactments and archive film footage. Eight people represent four battles in WWII, Korea, Vietnam and Afghanistan. Produced......
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January 26, 2024

VMF Film and Book Recommendations February 2024

FILM RECOMMENDATION Watch the Trailer Taking Chance, starring Kevin Bacon as a Marine officer who volunteered to escort the body of a 19-year-old Marine killed in Iraq home to Wyoming.......
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January 17, 2024

VMF Film and Book Recommendations January 2024

FILM RECOMMENDATION Watch the Trailer Oppenheimer, starring Cillian Murphy, Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, and Robert Downey Jr. J. Robert Oppenheimer’s career is brought into focus for many who did not......
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November 26, 2023

VMF Film and Book Recommendations December 2023

FILM RECOMMENDATIONS Watch the Trailer All the Light We Cannot See, based on Anthony Doerr’s Pulitzer Prize winning novel, is a Netflix limited series. Starring Aria Mia Loberti, Louis Hofman......
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October 27, 2023

VMF Film and Book Recommendations November 2023

FILM RECOMMENDATION The Best Years of Our Lives stars Frederic Marsh, Dana Andrews and Harold Russell who portray three soldiers, all from different social backgrounds, returning home to their idyllic......
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September 25, 2023

VMF Film and Book Recommendations October 2023

FILM RECOMMENDATION The Stasi and the Berlin Wall The Berlin Wall was erected on August 13, 1961 and it became a financial windfall for the East German Police (Stasi). Twenty-eight......
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August 28, 2023

VMF Film and Book Recommendations September 2023

FILM RECOMMENDATION Don’t Look Up, with a myriad of stars, is a satirical comedy about a comet speeding toward Earth, the comet’s impact is an allegory for climate change. “[T]he......
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July 25, 2023

VMF Film and Book Recommendations August 2023

FILM RECOMMENDATION Meagan Leavey, a Marine Corporal, is deployed in Iraq with her bomb-sniffing dog, Sgt. Rex. Starring Kate Mara, Varco (as Rex), Ramón Rodríguez and Common. Watch the Trailer.......
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June 25, 2023

VMF Film and Book Recommendations July 2023

FILM RECOMMENDATION This Frontline documentary, Trafficked in America, is “An investigation into how teenagers from Central America were smuggled into the U.S. by traffickers who promised them jobs and a......
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