Duty, Honor, Patriotism. All great reasons to be a soldier, but usually not what a person thinks about when joining up. For most young people, the ideas swirling around enlistment in the armed forces involve career training, escape from a small town or inner city, and even possibly the chance to live out the video game experience in real combat. Such esoteric concepts as Pride and Duty are for older soldiers looking back fondly on the fire and zeal of youth. For the 22 year old grunt in the field, finding a place to sleep and avoiding RPGs are more immediate concerns. With Memorial Day close upon us, TomorrowPictures.TV is proud to present an original series called A Soldier’s Story. This is real talk with real soldiers, with footage taken by them from the battle zone. In the first episode, Army Sgt. Kenyon Johnson and his wife Amy talk about the reasons a young man joins the military, and the effort it takes a new family to survive the strain of active service. Join TomorrowPictures.TV in saluting the brave men and women who defend our liberties with their lives. Watch Part Two on Episodics!
Archive for May, 2010
With Memorial Day upon us, we celebrate the bravery of our military veterans! In remembrance, TomorrowPictures.TV presents The Black Brigade, a film written and produced by Aaron Spelling. This military action comedy tells the story of a redneck Army officer leading a company of African-American soldiers on a mission in Germany during the final days of World War 2. With early performances from Old, Old, Old School Richard Pryor, pre-Lando Calrissian Billy Dee Williams and NFL All-Pro Rosie Grier, this Socially Conscious Blaxploitation Flick is a very entertaining Must-See!
Hollywood’s Hottest Spindoctor DJ Uniek is back on the scene with Don’t Stop Movin’ Volume 26 part 2! This smokin’ mix of Hip Hop, House and serious Uptempo Bangers will have your rump shakin’ and your soul quakin’! If you are lucky enough to live in the El Lay, get your fine booty down to Little Temple in Hollywood Friday nights and Dragonfly on Sunday Nights for Uniek’s mindbending live set! Check out DJ Uniek on Facebook! TomorrowPictures.TV: Where the Club Bullies come to party!
Dennis Hopper, star of stage, screen and many a Hollywood party, has passed away at the age of 74. In this Special Episode of Medic, a babyfaced Dennis Hopper makes his television debut as a young Epileptic who faces ignorance and discrimination from townspeople who don’t understand the nature of his condition. Medic was a groundbreaking television show that debuted in America in 1954 and ran for two years on NBC. Other television programs had taken place in hospitals before, but none had ever shown a realistic and medically accurate portrayal of disease and the people who fought to cure it. Medic, although shortlived, was deeply influential on the score of hospital dramas that would follow, and its style can still be felt today on network programs like House and Grey’s Anatomy. Watch Part 2 on TomorrowPictures.TV!
The 1940 Selective Service Act prohibited racial discrimination in the American Military, and 885,000 black soldiers would serve in the armed forces during World War 2. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared Oct. 9, 1940, that blacks would be allowed to join the Army Air Corps and be eligible for officer training schools. The McCloy Commission found that riots in Army training camps were caused by white racism at the local level, regardless of policies handed down from the federal government. Racial conflict was a threat to wartime unity and black leaders wanted a “Double V” campaign for victory over foreign dictators AND domestic racism, so Chief of Staff George Marshall ordered famed Hollywood movie producer Frank Capra’s Army film unit to make a documentary film that would teach racial tolerance and promote wartime unity. Capra selected Stuart Heisler to direct the film, and Carlton Moss to write the script. In January, 1944, the Army began to show the film, The Negro Soldier to black troops, and after February it was shown also to white troops. In April, the 35mm print was released to the general public. The 16mm print of the film was shown in schools and civic auditoriums, and the United Auto Workers used the film to improve racial integration on the assembly line. Celebrate Memorial Day with TomorrowPictures.tv!
The Cost Of War is a documentary directed by Patrick Phillips in cooperation with the Brazos Valley Texas chapter of Veterans For Peace. It is the story of veterans from Korea, Vietnam and Iraq providing their perspectives on war and what it does to all of us. These veterans reject the idea that blind loyalty in time of war is the same as love of one’s country. The film honestly explores the costs — in lives ended, families destroyed, health sacrificed and dreams shattered — of waging war. Whatever your political opinions, this is an important film to see and discuss with your friends and family. Watch Part Two on tomorrowpictures.TV.
Put Me On is the show that collects the detritus of the internet and puts it together into one tasty nugget of short attention span theater! What’s your major malfunction Private Pile???? In Part 1 of this Special Memorial Day episode, we present a classic U.S. Military instructional video on the importance of saluting! Find out the right and wrong ways to salute, when, where and who to salute to, and if that weren’t enough fun, learn when to put your hand over your heart! If you’re a soldier, a former soldier, or just someone who likes to dress up in camo and run through the woods, this is the Can’t Miss video of the year! Put Me On: If it’s on the internet, it’s probably worth watching! Watch Part Two on Put Me On!
North Korea declared Tuesday that it would sever all communication and relations with Seoul as punishment for blaming the North for the sinking of a South Korean warship two months ago. North Korea also announced it would expel all South Korean government officials working in the northern border town of Kaesong. Tensions were rising on the divided Korean peninsula in the wake of an investigation report blaming North Korea for a torpedo attack that sank the Cheonan warship on March 26, killing 46 South Korean sailors. South Korea’s military restarted psychological warfare operations — including blaring radio broadcasts into the North and placing loudspeakers at the border to blast out propaganda — to punish the North for the provocation. In this special program, ENG presents a look at the development of the Korean war as a proxy battle between the Communist East and the Capitalist West.
May 25 is the 65th birthday of Muppeteer Supreme Frank Oz, and in tribute we present some classic Muppet Show for your viewing enjoyment! Alice Cooper and the Muppets wouldn’t seem to have much in common at first glance- the first King of Shock Rock and the prime-time puppets that brought the variety show back to America? But both Alice and Kermit were all about bringing a little weirdness into the lives of kids, and this 1978 video is nothing if not WEIRD! It’s Alice and a group of the most badass muppets ever to grace the tube, tearing things down and blowing things up! Finally, Alice strips down to his red devil suit and gets the whole gang involved in some mass destruction! It’s Summertime, kiddies, so let’s get crazy with TomorrowPictures.TV!





















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