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3. What a Strange Country | Do We Get to Win This Time?

The Big Picture

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Coming Home: A History of Vietnam

In 1977, Bert Lancaster starred in Twilight's Last Gliming about a former Vietnam POW. While the last moments of the deer hunter may have struck some viewers as ambiguous, coming home made its anti-war feelings clear. United Artists Mike Medivoy, who'd greenlit the film, and got pushback from within his own company.

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