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The Green Berets (1968) is the last gasp of WWII-style war propaganda — a jingoistic fairytale made in the shadow of a war that shattered the myths it tries to uphold. In this essay, I compare it to Olivier’s Henry V and the revisionist war films that followed.
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https://ninetypercentcrapmoviereviews.wordpress.com/2025/07/12/the-green-berets-and-the-last-gasp-of-american-war-mythology/