The conflict profoundly affected the American troops who served there, as well as the nation’s culture and politics. But 50 ...

John Geoffrey Fairley was one of a small group of photographers tasked with documenting the conflict for Australian audiences ...

The Vietnam War was ending ... The Marines peeled off helmets and flak jackets to lighten the load, piled in the choppers and flew away. Advertising “It all came down on us,” Potratz said.

where soldiers were left without flak jackets or helmets. The lack of protection underscored the dangers faced by all, regardless of their role on the front lines. The fall of Saigon on April 30, 1975 ...

The Vietnam war cast a long shadow across one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, and for the half-century since it ended, filmmakers have reckoned with its complicated legacy.

The Vietnam War, which ended 50 years ago, fundamentally altered our perception of war, particularly its long-term consequences. The Vietnam War — which came closely on the heels of the ...

In the 1970-80s, Vietnam War films such as Francis Ford Coppola’s Apocalypse Now (1979), Stanley Kubrick’s Full Metal Jacket (1987) and Oliver Stone’s Platoon (1987) established these ...

Today marks the fiftieth anniversary of the fall of Saigon and the end of the Vietnam War. When President Lyndon Johnson sent the first U.S. combat troops to South Vietnam in March 1965 ...

“Turning Point: The Vietnam War” opens with Brooklyn-born Scott Camil telling his piece of the American story. Camil says his stepfather was involved in the John Birch Society and hammered ...