It was heavy with anti-military, anti-war sentiment, evoking the zeitgeist of a Vietnam-exhausted populace. “War isn’t Hell,” Hawkeye Pierce, played by Alan Alda, says in a typical line.

April 30, 2025, marks 50 years since what most US media call “the fall of Saigon”—and what progressives call the victory for ...

The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across one ... range from indelible anti-war classics to Vietnamese portraits of resistance, capturing the vastness of the war’s still-reverberating traumas.