I found Heaven & Earth in the Library. It is based on the autobiography of a Ly Le,(played very well by Joan Chen) a Vietnamese woman born in the late 40's in a small hamlet near Da Nang, who endured the French VN war, then the American invasion, and finally married a Marine Sergeant, moved to California and settled there with her three children, became a financial success and finally returned to Nam to se her family.
This film cost a fortune and apparently did not pay for itself, I do not recall hearing of it when it was released, but it any event, it is a masterpiece, more so than Born on the 4th of July or Full Metal Jacket and other VN films I have seen. It is not about hippies or demonstrations in the US in any way, it is about the Vietnamese, from the specific viewpoint of one very determined short Vietnamese woman.
The best Vietnamese flick I have seen, ever.
The DVD has a lot of comments by Stone that are very informative.
