John Wayne in 'The Green Berets'
As a factory of escapist entertainment, Hollywood understandably didn't want to touch the Vietnam War in the late 1960s. Every day, Americans turned on their televisions to watch extensive war coverage and ground-level combat footage. They flip over to the next channel to find coverage of hostile, sometimes violent, protests at home. It was a dark time in American history, so movie theaters became a safe haven, where Hollywood provided them with glossy musicals and historical epics.
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