The Vietnam War was a prolonged expensive and divisive conflict between the communist government of North Vietnam and South Vietnam whose main ally was the United States Yet it often gets ...

Military history professor Bill Allison rates more Vietnam War movies, such as "Forrest Gump ... and the nighttime attacks of the Tet Offensive in "Full Metal Jacket" (1987).

this absorbing and enlightening three-hour documentary takes you into the core of the action to witness what it was like to be an American soldier in the Vietnam War. The fighting is recounted in ...

Military history professor Bill Allison rates Vietnam War movies, such as "Apocalypse Now ... such as the battle of Huế during the Tet Offensive in "Full Metal Jacket" (1987) and "Platoon ...

Nowadays, The Green Berets is typically mentioned only in contrast with later Vietnam War movies like Platoon and Full Metal Jacket. Critics noted that Wayne’s depiction of Vietnam was absurdly ...

Jaws is considered the first Hollywood Blockbuster but many overlook its subtle Vietnam War themes lurking beneath ... Jaws emerges as an unlikely Vietnam movie. This is because the shark in ...

Francis Ford Coppola's Vietnam War movie, Apocalypse Now, which tells the story of Captain Willard's journey up river to hunt down and kill the AWOL Colonel Kurtz, has joined the ranks of the best ...

When the Vietnam War ... did America go to war? Why did so many young men have to die? And how could we as a country move on? By the end of the 1970s, there were a slew of movies that dealt ...