Battlefields and Beyond: 10 Movies That Defined the Vietnam War

The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking and has led filmmakers for the half-century since to reckon with its complicated legacy. These 10 films, assembled to mark the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon, range from indelible anti-war classics to Vietnamese portraits of resistance, capturing the vastness of the war's still-reverberating traumas.