Film
★ 6.7
2014
We Are Many
The story of the biggest demonstration in human history, which took place on 15th February 2003, against the impending war on Iraq.
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Writing
Born
1946-07-04 · 80 yrs
From
Ladysmith, Wisconsin, USA
Known for
Writing
Ronald Lawrence Kovic (born July 4, 1946) is an American anti-war activist, author, and United States Marine Corps sergeant who was wounded and paralyzed in the Vietnam War. His best selling 1976 memoir Born on the Fourth of July was made into the film of the same name which starred actor Tom Cruise as Kovic, and was co-written by Kovic and directed by Oliver Stone. Kovic received the Golden Globe Award for Best Screenplay on January 20, 1990, 22 years to the day that he was wounded in Vietnam, and was nominated for an Academy Award in the same category. Description above from the Wikipedia article Ron Kovic, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
