this absorbing and enlightening three-hour documentary takes you into the core of the action to witness what it was like to be an American soldier in the Vietnam War. The fighting is recounted in ...

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.