Born on the Fourth of July

Director: Oliver Stone

Type: Film

As Noted In: AFI's 100 Years 100 Movies-10th Anniversary - 400 ballot choices, 2007, American Film Institute

On Writing "Born on the Fourth of July"

I was writing it as my last will and testament. I was having heart palpitations, anxiety attacks, nightmares, and I didn't think I was going to live to be 30. - Ron Kovic

Theme Group: Vietnam War Experience

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Massapequa, Ron Kovic grew up in Massapequa, New York
Vietnam, "Born on the Fourth of July" is set in Vietnam during the Vietnam War, 1968.

Timeline

Y/M/D		Association	Description	Place	Locale
1968/01/20			While leading a reconnaissance mission north of the Cua Viet River near the village of My Loc, Ron Kovic is shot by North Vietnamese soldiers, paralyzing him from the chest down.	Vietnam
1974/09/00			Fall of 1974, Ron Kovic rolls his wheelchair into the Sears store on Colorado Ave in Santa Monica and buys a typewriter for $42. At his apartment at Third and Pacific, he hunt-and-peck types his autobiography.	Santa Monica	California
1989/00/00	Oliver Stone	Director	"Born on the Fourth of July" is released.

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Particulars for Born on the Fourth of July:
Narrative Arts	Drama
Narrative Arts	Factual	concerned with what is actually true rather than interpretations of or reactions to it
Narrative Arts	Fiction	prose literature, especially short stories and novels, that describes imaginary events and people
Art Type	Film
Narrative Arts	Live Action
Narrative Arts	Narrative	an account of connected events
Area of Significance	Returning Home from War
Event	Vietnam War
Motif	War

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