Credit: AP/Joel C Ryan The 1980s saw a wave of Hollywood films about Vietnam, including “First Blood,” “Hamburger Hill,” “Good Morning Vietnam,” “Casualties of War” and “Born on ...

The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, and has led filmmakers for the half-century since to reckon with its complicated legacy.

“Platoon” (1986) The 1980s saw a wave of Hollywood films about Vietnam, including "First Blood," "Hamburger Hill," "Good Morning Vietnam," "Casualties of War" and "Born on the Fourth of July ...