The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, and has led filmmakers for the half-century since to reckon with its complicated legacy. The war ...

Vietnam War movies are often harrowing and uncomfortably realistic, as seen in films like Hamburger Hill, Platoon, and Full Metal Jacket.

With most Vietnam War-centric movies, the emphasis is on the psychological state of the soldiers during the war, having an anti-war sentiment about them.

John Wayne made one of the first Vietnam war movies while the war was still underway, but what made critics call it a "Sick," "Stupid" "Travesty"?

Entertainment The Vietnam War produced classic Hollywood films — and hardly any classic female roles Jane Fonda poses with her Oscar at the 1978 Academy Awards on April 9, 1979, in Los Angeles.

Academy Award-nominated screenwriter William Broyles Jr. is a decorated Marine Corps Vietnam War veteran and shares how "Cast Away" was his coming-home-from-Vietnam story.

These films range from indelible anti-war classics to Vietnamese portraits of resistance, capturing the vastness of the war’s still-reverberating traumas.

The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, and has led filmmakers for the half-century since to reckon with its complicated legacy. These 10 f… ...