Tuesday, March 24: Apocalypse Now

Presented in collaboration with UM’s Center for International Business Education & Research (CIBER).

Directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, and Robert Duvall, this 1979 film was nominated for eight Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director, and won two, for Sound and Cinematography. Food will be provided after the 153-minute film.

Moderator: Otavio Bueno, professor and chair of the Department of Philosophy at the University of Miami College of Arts & Sciences.

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Tuesday, April 7: Last Days in Vietnam

This PBS film premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. It examines the difficult decisions faced by the Americans departing Vietnam under fire.

Introduction: Max Duke, vice president of Content and Community Partnerships at WPBT2, who arranged the screening.

Moderator: Daniel Suman, professor of marine affairs and policy at the Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Science of the University of Miami, who has led eight UM study abroad trips to Vietnam.

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Tuesday, April 21: The Fog of War

Former U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, widely viewed as the ‘architect” of the Vietnam War, is the focus of this 2003 documentary that won that year’s Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. Is it a defense or an apology?

Moderator: Charles E. Neu, professor emeritus and former chair of Brown University’s History Department, an expert on the Vietnam War, and a member of a group of scholars who advised Secretary McNamara.

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