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Might I suggest “We Were Soldiers Once & Young” by Mel Gibson. I don’t know personally how realistic it is - but it did have vet technical advisers (I’m thinking the camera man that was in the fight and/or Hal Moore). And folks that know say it was pretty accurate portrayal.

Regardless - I enjoyed (if that is the right word) it.

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“We Were Soldiers Once & Young” is the most accurate of all of the movies made about Viet Nam, as a matter of fact it's the only one. All the rest were rất nhảm nhí, if you get the drift.

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I liked that movie too but everything was apparently shot in California where the landscape didn't remotely resemble Vietnam's. I like Mel Gibson's stuff but you'd think that he'd have picked someplace a bit more like the real thing. Heck, nowadays they could probably even shoot the movie in Vietnam with real Vietnamese.

About the only war movies I really enjoyed were The Longest Day, A Bridge Too Far, and Pork Chop Hill but I suspect veterans of those wars would find them unrealistic as well.