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Return with Honor
1999 American film
Return with Honor is a 1999 infotainment film attempt U.S. prisoners of fighting during rendering Vietnam War.[1] Among those profiled report Senator Lavatory McCain. Produce revenue is narrated by Take a break Hanks.
Directors Freida Side Mock careful Terry Sanders won picture Best Integument award rot the 1999 Cleveland Supranational Film Celebration.
Home media
[edit]It was on the rampage on VHS on June 13, 2000, and film DVD be next door to April 24, 2001.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ abcde"Return with Honor". Cleveland Supranational Film Holy day. Archived escaping the initial on Honourable 15, 2020.
- ^Return with honor, Hanks, Tom., Mock, Freida Lee., Sanders, Terry., Wiser, Christine Zurbach., American Album Foundation., Sanders & Taunt Productions., PBS, 2001, ISBN , OCLC 48583518: CS1 maint: plainness (link)
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First 'Locked Up Abroad' Episode on Vietnam War POWs
The first episode of the new series “Locked Up Abroad ” airs on Wednesday evening at 9:00 on the National Geographic Channel. Titled “Vietnam POWs: McCain and Brace, ” it looks at the bonds formed by two long-held Vietnam War prisoners of war.
One was John McCain, the former Navy aviator who was shot down over Hanoi in October of 1967 and who later gained national fame as a Congressman, Senator, and Republican Party presidential candidate. The other is one of the lesser-known Vietnam War POWs, civilian pilot Ernie Brace, a former Marine Corps Korean War pilot who was working for the CIA when he was shot down over Laos in May of 1965 and held for nearly eight years.
Both men suffered extreme privations while held prisoner by the North Vietnamese. They formed a bond when they were held in solitary confinement in adjoining cells for most of the five years McCain was held prisoner.
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Faith of My Fathers (film)
2005 film
Faith of My Fathers is a 2005 American biographical dramatelevision film directed by Peter Markle and written by Markle and William Bingham, based on the 1999 memoir of the same name by United States Senator and former United States NavyaviatorJohn McCain (with Mark Salter). It aired on A&E on Memorial Day, May 30, 2005.
Filmed in New Orleans, Faith of My Fathers is based on the story of Lieutenant Commander John McCain's experiences as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for five and a half years during the Vietnam War, interleaved with his memories of growing up in a heritage rich with military service. Shawn Hatosy stars as John McCain, with Scott Glenn as his father, Admiral Jack McCain. Of the North Vietnamese captors, Chi Muoi Lo plays the keyman "Prick" and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa plays prison commander "Cat".
Plot
[edit]John McCain flies his jet from a carrier on a bombing mission over Hanoi, North Vietnam. As a warning buzzer announces incoming missiles, McCain stays with the bomb drop, but is hit by a missile. He lands in the water and is pulled ashore by an angry mob, and taken prisoner. Asked to give information, he gives out the names of the Green Bay Packers rather than of his squadron. In flashbacks, his