The Black Vietnam War experience is finally making its way into movies, decades late

After Oscar-winning moneymakers like The Deer Hunter, Coming Home, and Apocalypse Now collectively tested out the waters in the late ’70s, the multiplexes would become inundated with Vietnam War stories in the ’80s. (Though, technically, uber-patriotic star John Wayne was the first to bring Vietnam to the big screen, with the critically reviled 1968 hit The Green Berets.