The Green Barrese

The Green Barrese would be one of Wayne's final war films and for many years, the only studio movie about Vietnam. Peter Davis arrived in Saigon in the fall of 1972 with a small film crew and a big mission to understand how America had become entrenched in what was then the longest running war in its history. He wanted to make a movie that would answer three very tough questions: Why did we go to Vietnam? What did we do there? And what did the doing in turn do to us? It would take more than five years for another Vietnam movie to cause a fight as big and as public as the one over the Green Barrete.