veterans

Edmonds, a Special Forces captain and military advisor in Iraq, looks into torture and its effect on both the tortured and the torturer, and provides an account of the morally ambiguous choices faced when living with and fighting within a foreign religion and culture, as well as the resulting psychological and spiritual impacts on a soldier.

The story of K-9 Marine hero Lucca and the handlers who fought alongside her through wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, discussing her four hundred mission career and the bond she developed with her handlers.

Amory Blaine, a handsome, wealthy Princeton student, experiences love, war, and poverty on his path toward self-realization in the World War I era.

Examines the political origins of Roosevelt's second New Deal and discusses how World War I veterans and veteran politics influenced programs that were passed between 1934 and 1936.

A powerfully delivered narrative of a young soldier, his unlikely dream, and how he found his way out of darkness, Rise is inspiring, quintessentially American, and will resonate with anyone who has ever fought for what they what they wanted.

In the spring of 1974, as the last American troops were being pulled out of Vietnam, Ron Kovic and a small group of other severely injured veterans in a California VA hospital launched the American Veterans Movement. In a phenomenal feat of political organizing, Kovic corralled his fellow AVM members into staging a sit-in, and then a hunger strike, in the Los Angeles office of Senator Alan Cranston, demanding better treatment of injured and disabled veterans. This was a short-lived and chaotic but ultimately successful movement to improve the deplorable conditions in VA hospitals across the country. Hurricane Street is their story--one that resonates deeply today--told by Kovic in the passionate and brutally honest style that led to over one million sales of Born on the Fourth of July.

Related stories, linked by recurring characters and an interwoven plot, recreate an American foot soldier's experience in the Vietnam War.

Amory Blaine, a handsome, wealthy Princeton student, experiences love, war, and poverty on his path toward self-realization in the World War I era.

African-American Derek Strange, a rookie cop in 1969, encounters both personal and racial conflicts in pursuit of his career which sometimes pits him against his own family and friends, especially when violence breaks out in Washington D.C., in the wake of the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Historian Robert MacIver creates a strange tale about men in the trenches of the First World War, forcing himself to relive his own experiences in the war and the impact they had on his life.