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.

There's something to be said about a Vietnam War movie that was made by an actual veteran, and 'Platoon' still holds up nearly 40 years later.

‘Forgotten’ Vietnam war film that's 'more realistic' than Platoon and Full Metal Jacket A fan called the 1987 epic one of the "most underrated films about Vietnam and one of the best".

The 1986 war film praised for its realistic portrayal is the first Hollywood movie written and directed by someone who served in the Vietnam war ...