Oliver Stone’s Platoon, which won the Academy Award for Best Picture and was a massive box office success, opened the door ...

Filmmaker J.M. Harper takes a hybrid approach, combining new interviews, archival footage and stylized dramatizations, to tell the story of the U.S. Army’s first all-Black special operations team in ...

War is hell. It's one of the worst aspects of human history, but we sure love stories about the great conflicts in human history. The movie has been perhaps the best way to show the realities of war, ...

The war movie threads between history and drama, and weaving threads truth with fiction can create masterworks. These 10 ...

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 ...

The Vietnam War produced some of the most unforgettable films of the late 1970s and 1980s, as top Hollywood filmmakers like Kubrick, Coppola, Oliver Stone and others grappled with its painful legacy.

Steven Spielberg’s searing WWII picture stars Tom Hanks as Captain John Miller, who’s tasked with leading a group of soldiers ...