Coming home

Duration: 33

Genre: Educational

Year Published: 1979

Creator: UNIFILM

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: An examination of America's post-Vietnam syndrome and the plight of the Vietnam veteran. Focuses on two vets: Richard Linder, a 28-year-old Black man from Brooklyn, and Donald Sproehnle, a 25-year-old white man from Philadelphia. They discuss their reasons for joining the army in their teens and recount wartime experiences. They explain the psychological changes they underwent in Vietnam and their present feelings of hurt and anger. , The story of a seventeen-year-old girl who arrives at a group home after ten years in a state institution for the retarded. The film traces her growth in achieving a sense of personal self-worth and dignity, while also illustrating the community's reaction to the group home. Not all of the community's hostile feelings are resolved, but facts do replace myths and a young girl does find a new way of life. Produced by WQED, Pittsburgh.

Complete Record: An examination of America's post-Vietnam syndrome and the plight of the Vietnam veteran. Focuses on two vets: Richard Linder, a 28-year-old Black man from Brooklyn, and Donald Sproehnle, a 25-year-old white man from Philadelphia. They discuss their reasons for joining the army in their teens and recount wartime experiences. They explain the psychological changes they underwent in Vietnam and their present feelings of hurt and anger. , The story of a seventeen-year-old girl who arrives at a group home after ten years in a state institution for the retarded. The film traces her growth in achieving a sense of personal self-worth and dignity, while also illustrating the community's reaction to the group home. Not all of the community's hostile feelings are resolved, but facts do replace myths and a young girl does find a new way of life. Produced by WQED, Pittsburgh.NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.