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3. What a Strange Country | Do We Get to Win This Time?

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Do We Get to Win This Time? How Hollywood Made the Vietnam War

Tom Mount was in his 20s when he began working at Universal Pictures. He'd been involved with the protest movement before getting into the film business. The Deer Hunter and coming home were haunting and exhausting in their own ways. But together they'd bring the war to the mainstream and to the Oscars.

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