This explains why one of the rare Vietnam movies of the period, The Green Berets, is coded like a WWII man-on-a-mission epic and starred an overage John Wayne substantiating the myths and lies fed ...

Spike Lee isn’t afraid to call out fellow filmmakers for perceived transgressions. He takes a refreshingly outspoken approach to Hollywood, even when it’s in everyone’s best interest that he doesn’t.

No film so perfectly encapsulates the generation gap in America in the '60s than John Wayne's corny Vietnam War epic, The Green Berets. The genre has reached such a level of ubiquity and cliché ...