Go Tell the Spartans
“We're getting strafed, shelled, bombed, and blasted. And it isn't even our damned war!”
War
Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film based on Daniel Ford's 1967 novel "Incident at Muc Wa." It tells the story about U.S. Army military advisers during the early part of the Vietnam War. Led my Major Asa Barker, these advisers and their South Vietnamese counterparts defend the village of Muc Wa against multiple attacks by Viet-Cong guerrillas.
VIBE
A raw, unflinching look at the early days of American involvement in Vietnam. It feels like a grim, dusty dispatch from a forgotten front, highlighting the futility and human cost of conflict with stark realism.
grimbleaktensesombersteadygritty realismperiod piecepolitical dramawardutylosscolonialism
vietnam warvietnambased on novel or bookmajor1960s
