Haunting and lyrical, this film serves as a wistful elegy to the national hubris and the multiple confusions that both engendered and prolonged the war in Vietnam. Footage of the war—both the gorgeous and chilling—shows strafing and bombings and defoliation over the implacably lush and tropical jungle terrain. Graveyards of B-52’s and Huey choppers speak to the ambition and failure of the war machine. And the voices of G.I.’s, villagers and journalists all add human counterpoint to the remarkable images onscreen. Not a treatise, not a polemic, but an artful reminiscence that makes a kind of final eloquent sense about a dark and troubling time.