Get all the news you need in your inbox each morning. Their mission: tell the intimate stories of veterans on both sides of the conflict through found footage of those very protagonists. They would watch stunning videotape and track down the aging vets,

Frequently, and this may be an uncomfortable truth for many, the documentary works best when we are thrown into the action headfirst: as the Americans arrive on Vietnam’s sunny shores at the start of the war or when they flee in helicopters at the end of it.