This film, which sparked off the reactionary Rambo series, is a gem. Stallone plays a skilled jungle fighter, who finds himself a social outcast on his return from Vietnam, and makes war with the authoritarian uniformed forces whom he once represented. Both cool on action and politically PC, a must watch for those who think the Rambo character was purely a demented racist imperialist with a ridiculously accurate gun. find out more...

Lt Col Hal Moore is given the responsibility of setting up Americas first airborne cavalry regiment and it is not long before they have their first shot of action when Moore and his men are dropped into Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam and find themselves out numbered nearly 5-1 by the North Vietnamese. We Were Soldiers serves up all the requisite war action, heroism and sacrifice that we have come to expect, but the characters have no depth and the message never really bothers to go further than a Da find out more...