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 ...

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 ...