Oliver Stone’s Platoon, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and was a massive box office success, opened the door ...

There aren’t as many movies about the Vietnam War as there are World War II movies, but considering it is a more recent war, and one that’s harder to explore in a broadly appealing way (whether ...

See the Light, Kiss the Ground” by Steve Andrews blends historical fact with ground level fiction to deliver one of the most ...

Kennedy, Johnson and McNamara were private realists but chose the path of least resistance, writes Fredrik Logevall ...

W hat was the Vietnam war? A “quagmire”, as one historian called it? A “commitment looking for a justification”, as a 1960s ...

Some war movies aim for spectacle. Some are much more interested in exhaustion, dread, and the cost of leadership under ...

The war movie threads between history and drama, and weaving threads truth with fiction can create masterworks. These 10 ...