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The Mosquito Bowl

a game of life and death in World War II
2022
Relates the unique story behind a football game played on Christmas Eve, 1944, between Marine regiments training for the invasion of Okinawa, a game that featured one of the greatest pools of football talent ever assembled and would become known as The Mosquito Bowl.

Billy Lynn's long halftime walk

A satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq that explores the gaping national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. Follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop in their media-intensive "Victory Tour" at Texas Stadium, football mecca of the Dallas Cowboys, their fans, promoters, and cheerleaders.
Cover image of Billy Lynn's long halftime walk

Last team standing

how the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eagles--"The Steagles"--saved pro football and helped America win World War II
2007
Explains how the National Football League's merging of the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Philadelphia Eages in 1943 due to a shortage of players managed to raise the country's spirits in the midst of the war.

Where men win glory

the odyssey of Pat Tillman
2009
Presents a biographical discussion of Pat Tillman, covering the true events and actions surrounding the death of the U.S. Army soldier by friendly fire in Afghanistan in 2004, and examines the misrepresentation of his story by the Bush administration before the truth was revealed.

Billy Lynn's long halftime walk

2012
A satire set in Texas during America's war in Iraq that explores the gaping national disconnect between the war at home and the war abroad. Follows the surviving members of the heroic Bravo Squad through one exhausting stop in their media-intensive "Victory Tour" at Texas Stadium, football mecca of the Dallas Cowboys, their fans, promoters, and cheerleaders.
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