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 ...

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.

While the U.S. entered the Vietnam War to prevent the spread of communism in Southeast Asia, historian Marc Selverstone says the fall of Saigon, the capital of South Vietnam, in April 1975, was a long ...

The Vietnam war made American culture bolder and more varied The conflict, which ended 50 years ago, precipitated new styles of music and film. Illustration: Ricardo Santos. Apr 24th 2025.

With “Tour of Duty,” the Vietnam War finally came to prime time. The CBS series that premiered in 1987 showed actual combat and the young men who fought and died in it.

“The Fog of War” (2003) Not long after the turn of the century, former U.S. defense secretary and Vietnam War architect Robert S. McNamara sat for interviews with documentarian Errol Morris ...