During the Vietnam War, a squad of black US Army soldiers of the 1st Infantry Division, [3] Paul, Otis, Eddie, Melvin, and their squad leader Norman, who dub themselves the "Bloods," secure the site of a CIA airplane crash and recover its cargo, a locker of gold bars intended as payment to the Lahu people for their help in fighting the Viet Cong.

Jun 13, 2020 · Spike Lee’s new film, “Da 5 Bloods” (streaming on Netflix), pulls the traumas of black men’s experiences of the Vietnam War out of obscurity and puts them in the forefront of political...

Jun 16, 2020 · Spike Lee's new Netflix film Da 5 Bloods may be a fictional tale, but it draws on real-life experiences of black soldiers in the Vietnam War and references key events of the time.

Da 5 Bloods: Directed by Spike Lee. With Delroy Lindo, Jonathan Majors, Clarke Peters, Norm Lewis. Four black veterans battle the forces of man and nature when they return to Vietnam seeking the remains of their fallen squad leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide.

Spike Lee’s highly-rated Vietnam War film Da 5 Bloods gets a subpar accuracy score from historian Bill Allison. Released in 2020, the movie follows four African American war veterans who return ...

Jun 12, 2020 · In Da 5 Bloods, Spike Lee honors the legacy of the African Americans who fought in the Vietnam War—showing photographs and archival footage from the 1960s of the horrors they faced while...

Four Black veterans return to Vietnam decades after the war to find their squad leader's remains — and a stash of buried gold. From Spike Lee. Watch trailers & learn more.

Jun 11, 2020 · Decades after the war, four black veterans return to Vietnam to recover a stash of buried gold. The timely film is a critique of the U.S.' long, shameful history of devaluing its black soldiers.

Jun 10, 2020 · Now, at 63, Lee is turning his lens to the Vietnam War with his latest film Da 5 Bloods, premiering on Netflix this Friday. The film follows four African American war veterans, including Chadwick Boseman (Black Panther) and Delroy Lindo (Crooklyn), who both served in the army as teenagers.

Aug 1, 2020 · As the country is convulsed by the simultaneous nationwide Black Lives Matter protests over racism and the devastation of more than 150,000 Coronavirus deaths, I sought escape in Spike Lee’s latest offering on Netflix— “Da 5 Bloods,” a story of four African American army veterans returning to Vietnam 50 years after their wartime service ...