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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gz3Cc7wlfkI Apocalypse Now was released in December 1979, so close enough to fit into the 1980's cultu...

The legacy of Vietnam in the 80's can be examined through popular culture. Mainstream films of the decade often had undertones or refere...

During and straight after the Vietnam War, American’s did not look very favourably upon the Vietnam War, and were not very accepting of it...

America during the 1980s saw a retelling of some of its most controversial moments in political history. This was no less brought on by th...

http://www.pow-miafamilies.org/about-the-league/ In 1970 Sybil Stockdale, who was the wife of an American Vietnam War Navy pilot who became ...

http://johnpilger.com/videos/heroes Originally from Sydney, Australia, John Pilger has become an award winning journalist and foreign corres...

http://thewall-usa.com/information.asp The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall, located in the National Mall in Washington DC, spreads over ...

http://www.vietnamexp.com/Vietnam%20Poetry.html " A web site that shares the emotional and spiritual experiences of the Vietnam War th...

Paul Hardcastle - 19 19 was a Number 1 hit single in 1985, depicting his opinion on America's involvement in the Vietnam War, and the tr...

  The 1980's saw a number of films released about the Vietnam War, most notably the critically acclaimed Full Metal Jacket, Platoon, B...

Orange Crush is a song by American Band R.E.M which was realised in 1988. Even though the song reached number 1 it was never realised commer...

http://www.vhpamuseum.org/defaultmenu.shtml The site above is a website dedicated to those who fought the in the Vietnam War. Within the web...

'In the mid-1980s, the U.S. and Vietnam increased the frequency of high-level policy and technical meetings to help resolve the POW/MIA ...

Springsteen's 1984 song Born in the USA was commonly mistaken for a patriotic and nationalistic anthem, although the lyrics in reality...

R.E.M - Shiny Happy People R.E.M. was an alternative rock band set up in 1980. Alternative rock is a sub genre of rock that formed in the ...

For my blog post this week I have chosen a music video from the 1980s which for me represents, and to an extent defines, the era. Michael Ja...

Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' was the seventh single from the album of the same name, and the video made history. For the first ...

Guns N' Roses, arguably one of the biggest and most successful bands to come out of the 80's is now an iconic symbol of the time p...

Techno is a genre of music believed to have originated largely in Detroit in the mid-1980s. With influences coming from genres such as funk,...