Oliver Stone's 1986 war epic is widely recognized as one of the most powerful war films ever made, thanks to its raw and heart-wrenching depiction of life in the trenches during the Vietnam War.

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

The Vietnam War produced some of the most unforgettable films of the late 1970s and 1980s, as top Hollywood filmmakers like Kubrick, Coppola, Oliver Stone and others grappled with its painful legacy.

It’s hard to believe that AP reviewer Jake Coyle could have left out the film “We Were Soldiers” in his list of the best Vietnam War movies. “We Were Soldiers” is an account of the first tactical ...