Writing

Tim O'Brien

Born

1946-10-01 (79)

Place of birth

Austin, Minnesota, USA

Known for

Writing

Credits

5 titles

Known for

The Sixties poster
7.5

The space race, the cold war, "free love," civil rights and more: The decade of the 1960s shaped our history -- and changed the world. In collaboration with Tom Hanks, Gary Goetzman and Mark Herzog, CNN explores perhaps the most transformative decade of the modern era in a 10-part documentary series and brings new insights into how those events shaped today.

The Sixties

2014

The Vietnam War poster
8.2

An immersive 360-degree narrative telling the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Featuring testimony from nearly 80 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.

The Vietnam War

2017

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7.0

'Fall Into Me' is a romantic comedy about lies and love. The lies we tell to get the love that we want. Maria and Steve, two unlikely liars, find themselves lies colliding and their lives forever changed.

Fall Into Me

2007

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NR

TIM O'BRIEN, National Book Award-winning author of 'If I Die in a Combat Zone', 'Going After Cacciato' and 'The Things They Carried', explores and examines, with the help of other outstanding American writers, the problem of how to write honestly and truthfully about war - perhaps you have to 'lie' to tell the full truth...?

How To Tell A True War Story

The War and Peace of Tim O'Brien poster
NR

Called “the best American writer of his generation” and “our poet laureate of war,” Tim O’Brien is one of the great voices in modern literature. The Library of Congress recently named his groundbreaking novel-in-stories about the Vietnam War, “The Things They Carried,” one of the 65 most influential books in American history, and O’Brien’s “Going After Cacciato” won the National Book Award in 1979.

The War and Peace of Tim O'Brien

2020

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