Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. At a time when the war had become one of the most divisive issues in the United States, Wayne took a firmly supportive position.

For decades, John Wayne looked untouchable at the box office—until the late 1960s brought cultural change. In 1968, he co directed The Green Berets, a Vietnam War film that follows United States Army ...

No film so perfectly encapsulates the generation gap in America in the '60s than John Wayne's corny Vietnam War epic, The Green Berets. The genre has reached such a level of ubiquity and cliché that ...

John Wayne's Colonel Mike Kirby is seen in closeup as he stands in a field in The Green Berets - Warner Bros. In 1968, John Wayne made one of his worst movies with "The Green Berets." This jingoistic ...