Daily Show Goes to Iran

Excellent short doc on the travel of two Daily Show reporters to Iran, discussing the strange notions people have about satire and who gets it or not.

Steve Irwin Parody (Comedy Hour In Iraq)

Technically this video is a mess, but the moment when the guy shooting it refuses to climb over for a closer look because he doesn't want to get shot is worth it.

Dogs Greet Soldiers Coming Home

Here's a link to a blog full of these videos of happy dogs. This is not a joke.

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/40324

Starship Troopers - Victory

Includes "censored" penetration of the Brain Bug.

Starship Troopers - Brain Bug - Vagina

DVD extra that includes SFX crew discussing making Brain Bug as offensive as possible...

Military Ghost Ride Montage

Article on soldier videos

This is an excellent online article about soldier-made videos from Iraq. It's a bit dated (2006), but good nonetheless.

Your Guide to Soldier Videos from Iraq

Obama Orders Colbert's Hair Cut

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Medium Cool 11/11

Traffic scene from the film Weekend

Washington 10/21/67

"impressionistic immersion in the experience of the march"

William Buckley Interviews Mailer on Firing Line (1968) Part 2

William Buckley Interviews Norman Mailer on Firing Line (1968) Part 1

1967 Pentagon Protest Newsreel

MEDIUM COOL WEB SITE

This is an excellent site produced to contextualize and study the film Medium Cool. In particular, for quick reference check out the historical timeline.

THE WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING

Daily Show Goes to Iran

Alamo Bay (1985) Harbor Confrontation

This is Why I'm Hot (Deployed Style)

[from Sara Gomez]

Iraq is fun

[from JJ Price]

Fergalicious PARODY..Soldiers having fun!

by "Armed and Delicious"

[from JJ Price]

Little Buddies Iraq Commercial (ORIGINAL) MAD FUNNY

[from Rebecca Lyons]

funny army video

Office Linebacker sort of thing.

[from Nathan White]

Army Soldiers having a laugh

All sorts of song parodies.

[from Joseph Galan]

Peanut Butter Jelly Time In Iraq

[Joseph Galan]

What Is Love

[from Joseph Galan]

It's Important to Have a Sense of Humor in a Fighting Hole

Extreme Makeover Iraq Edition

Bye Bye Bye

[from D]

vanilla ice remix (gotta see)

[from Austin Tower]

You Want Candy? You Want A Grenade? - Iraq

mtv cribs afghanistan

mtv iraq cribs (british army funny)

This video is made by British Soliders in Iraq, in the film they are mocking MTV cribs. Cribs is a popular show that allows famous actors/actresses and singers to show off their audacious homes and expensive cars. The fact that the soldiers are mocking this TV show with their dusty tents and tanks is making fun of what the civilians value and admire.  

[from Jaci Clark] 

John Huston - Let There Be Light - Part 2

Let There Be Light

John Huston discusses Let There Be Light - Part 1

Odysseus in America Clip 1

Odysseus in America Trailer

Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming

Jonathan Shay talk at University of California.

2007 MacArthur Fellow: Jonathan Shay

Jonathan Shay in Voices in Wartime - Grief

The Things They Carried - 1914 - 2028

Check out this interesting article/slideshow from Forbes.

Things the Infantry Carried

Country Joe McDonald - "Feel Like I'm Fixing To Die"

From the Woodstock documentary. Famous anti-war, ironic singalong.

Duck and Cover, Civil Defense Film (1951)

Know Your Enemy The Vietcong.1965 Viet Nam

Department of Defense film. Includes captured footage from Vietcong.

Why Vietnam?

Department of Defense film outlining reasons for the war.

Vietnam War - The Impact of Media

This expositional documentary attempts to rewrite the Vietnam War as the result of "media distortions" and "misrepresentations" that turned the public against the war. Made in 1984.

The Anderson Platoon: Part1

Award-winning documentary made in 1966 about platoon in Vietnam led by black soldier.

Frontline Video on Returning to Vietnam

Here's a good site from a Frontline episode featuring a Vietnamese refugee/journalist who returns to investigate what the Vietnamese are taught about the war.

http://www.pbs.org/frontlineworld/stories/vietnam/index.html

Apocalypse Now - Helicopter Scene

Hearts & Minds Part I

You can click on the various other links to find the rest of the doc. They're listed as "vietnam war 2" etc.