Asian Heritage Month Film: Da 5 Bloods

Da 5 Bloods is a 2020 American war drama film directed, produced, and co-written by Spike Lee.

During the Vietnam War, a squad of black US Army soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division. Paul, Otis, Eddie, Melvin, and their squad leader Norman, who dub themselves the “Bloods,” secure the site of a CIA airplane crash and recover its cargo, a locker of gold bars intended as payment for the Lahu people for their help in fighting the Viet Cong. The Bloods decide to take the gold for themselves and bury it so they can retrieve it later. However, in the ensuing Vietnamese counter-attack, Norman is killed, and the Bloods cannot locate the buried gold after a napalm strike obliterates the identifying landmarks.

In the present day, Paul, Otis, Eddie, and Melvin meet up in Ho Chi Minh City. A recent landslide had uncovered the tail of the crashed plane, and with this new information, they plan to find the gold and Norman’s body. Otis reunites with his old Vietnamese girlfriend Tiên, who reveals that he is the father of her grown child. Tiên introduces the Bloods to Desroche, a French businessman who agrees to help the Bloods smuggle the gold out of Vietnam once they retrieve it. Soon thereafter, they are joined by Paul’s son David, who has a tempestuous relationship with his father.

See this film on Zoom: https://bmcc-cuny.zoom.us/j/86834771930
Passcode: 837642

See a complete list of Asian Heritage Month events.

Attend 2 or more Asian Heritage Month events for Co-Curricular Transcript (CCT) credit.

For more information, contact Vincent (Tze-Wen) Cheng at tcheng@bmcc.cuny.edu.

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