This unit attempts to provide guidance toward some possible uses of film in the classroom when studying the Vietnam War. By encouraging students to write about and react to these films, the unit attempts to make film-viewing a more productive learning tool. The objectives of using film on the topic include: 1.) enabling students to hypothesize about the motivations of filmmakers, both narrative and documentary, who attempt to capture the period of the Vietnam conflict, 2.) enabling students to compare/contrast the portrayals of the War presented in feature films as opposed to accounts from readings used in class, 3.) helping students to describe the nature of the War, including the popular terminology from the period,4.) helping students to explain the influences of the media on public opinion at home, policy decisions on the War, and national politics, as daily evidence of the War came home and into American living rooms nightly, and 5.) helping students to judge the fairness and accuracy of portrayals of Veterans as lost and wounded souls.