... depictions of the Vietnam War. While these movies may have some accuracy, they are based primarily on the war recounts provided by the United States news and media. In the book A Vietnam War Reader: A Documentary History from American and Vietnamese Perspectives, author Michael Hunt stated that, "Since 1977, Hollywood has been succeeding where Washington consistently failed: namely, in selling Vietnam to ... North Vietnamese. In 1954 the French were defeated at the Dien Bien Phu post and decided to pull out of Vietnam.4 That same year the Geneva Conference was held. Multiple nations ass...

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