... not seen before, the truth is more disturbing. A taboo subject for years, critics claimed that Hollywood's lack of films about the war was in-keeping with their aversion to controversial subjects. However, the 1980s saw the floodgates open and a flux of films followed. Whether these filmmakers wished to tackle a sensitive issue or not remains irrelevant to the fact that a series of ... Vietnam films came only after one had been profitably distributed, which feeds the sceptics argument that Hollywood's prime concern was, once again, ... intervention in Vietnam, depicted by Coppola as a m...

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