Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Commentary (films not included). Pages: 24. Chapters: Anonymously Yours, Bombs Over Burma, King Naresuan (film), Kyan Sit Min, Mandalay (film), Merrill's Marauders (film), Never So Few, Objective, Burma!, Rambo (2008 film), Stealth (film), The Hasty Heart, The Long and the Short and the Tall (film), The Purple Plain, Vinyan, Yesterday's Enemy. Excerpt: Rambo (also known as Rambo IV or John Rambo) is a 2008 American-German action film starring Sylvester Stallone reprising his famous role as Cold War/Vietnam veteran John Rambo. Stallone also co-wrote and directed the film. It is the fourth and most recent installment in the Rambo franchise, twenty years since the previous film Rambo III. This film is dedicated to the memory of Richard Crenna, who played Col. Sam Trautman in the first three films, and who died in 2003. The film is about a former United States Army Special Forces soldier, John Rambo, who is hired by a church pastor to help rescue a group of missionaries who were kidnapped by men from a brutal Burmese military regime. This film shows more killings than any other of the Rambo series - 236. Rambo kills a group of pirates, an entire squad of Burmese soldiers, and then, at the climax of the film, a huge number of Burmese army soldiers whom he shoots with a jeep-mounted machine gun. Stallone justified this in a press conference by saying the violence in the film was to draw attention to the ongoing problems in Burma. The film grossed $113,204,290 during its run at the international box office. After its home video release, it grossed $39,206,346 in DVD sales. The film had its cable television premiere on Spike TV on July 11, 2010. However, it was the extended cut that was broadcast, not the theatrical version. The extended cut released on Blu-ray two weeks later. 20 years after the events in Afghanistan, amid the political...