Firsthand accounts of the Vietnam War from over 60 eyewitnesses, including both participants and citizens. Also includes archival footage, providing an examination of the war from a different angle.

With its origins in post-World War II, Vietnam, and the anti-communist United States, this era of combat produced some of the greatest war movies of the 1980s and beyond. Let's examine some of the ...

Military history professor Bill Allison rates more Vietnam War movies, such as "Forrest Gump ... and the nighttime attacks of the Tet Offensive in "Full Metal Jacket" (1987).

With the Cold War intensifying, Vietnam is divided in two at Geneva. Communists in the north aim to reunify the country, while America supports Ngo Dinh Diem's untested regime in the south.