Fifty years after the fall of Saigon, the Vietnam War remains a defining rupture in American history. Not only in terms of ...

R. Lee Ermey, Estelle Harris, and Ned Beatty, to name a few. Rather than retire Combat Carl or have him serve solely as background visual fodder, filmmaker Pete Docter & Co. have chosen to go the ...

The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, and has led filmmakers for ...

Split between the harrowing boot-camp tyranny of R. Lee Ermey’s drill instructor and the urban violence of the 1968 Tet Offensive, “Full Metal Jacket” fuses both ends of the war machine.