El Paso Community Foundation Program Director and Film Festival Artistic Director, Doug Pullen, joins hosts Stephanie Valle and Lisa Elliott to discuss one of the main threads that is woven into this years festival. It is "Hollywood Goes to War." A series of films that explore Hollywood's representation of and relationships with World War II.
Doug Pullen is in his 12th year as the program director for the El Paso Community Foundation and its highly popular Plaza Classic Film Festival, which celebrates its 18th anniversary July 17-27, 2025 ,in and around the historic, restored Plaza Theatre in El Paso, TX. Born in Maine, he is an Eastwood High School and Texas Tech University graduate who worked nearly 40 years as a music critic, movie critic and arts and entertainment writer for newspapers in Texas and Michigan, where he covered the Detroit music scene for nearly 20 years.
100 Great War Movies
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Hollywood and the Holocaust
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Hollywood and War, the Film Reader
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Hollywood Enlists!: Propaganda Films of World War II
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50 Movie Music Moments
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Colors of Film: The Story of Cinema in 50 Palettes
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Schindler's List
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Afterimage: Film, Trauma, and the Holocaust
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Concentrationary Cinema: Aesthetics as Political Resistance in Alain Resnais's "Night and Fog"
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Night and Fog: A Film in History
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Alvin York: A New Biography of the Hero of the Argonne
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Sergeant York
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The Diary of a Young Girl
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Interrogating America Through Theatre and Performance
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The Bridge over the River Kwai
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The Epic Films of David Lean
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The Berlin Stories: The Last of Mr. Norris [and] Goodbye to Berlin
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Five Came Back
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Bing Crosby: Swinging on a Star, the War Years, 1940-1946
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Going My Way: Bing Crosby and American Culture
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Popular Culture and the Shaping of Holocaust Memory in America
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Empire of Dreams: The Science Fiction and Fantasy Films of Steven Spielberg
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Steven Spielberg
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Oscar Wars
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The Real Story: Saving Private Ryan (DVD)
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Saving Private Ryan (Soundtrack)
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