The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, and has led filmmakers for ...

Before it won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1986, Platoon made waves simply by doing something new: showing the Vietnam War from the perspective of someone who fought in it. Oliver Stone was an ...

Military history professor Bill Allison rates Vietnam War movies, such as "Apocalypse ... Tet Offensive in "Full Metal Jacket" (1987) and "Platoon" (1986), featuring Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen ...

Nearly a decade later, he deployed with the 101st Airborne Division, his father’s old unit, during the Vietnam War ... Allied prisoners of war. As Howard’s platoon landed in hostile territory ...

The Vietnam War was a long, drawn-out conflict between ... hazards for his unit in Vietnam and was temporarily promoted to platoon sergeant, serving as platoon leader during manning shortages.

I have an awesome must-watch trailer for an upcoming survival thriller titled Primitive War , which stars Jeremy Piven ( Entourage ) and Ryan Kwanten ( True Blood ). Set in Vietnam in 1968, "the Primi ...

While his patrol was being attacked by a platoon-sized enemy force, a hand grenade landed in the foxhole that he ... The ceremony will honor the service and sacrifice of Vietnam War veterans with a ...

A new exhibit opening at the Gerald R. Ford Presidential Museum later this month is focused on the Vietnam War.

The story begins long ago, almost two decades before "Platoon" was filmed. In 1967, Stone, then in his early 20s, enlisted in the United States Army and served in combat in the Vietnam War.