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“A true war story is never moral. It does not instruct, nor encourage virtue, nor suggest models of proper human behavior, nor restrain men from doing the things men have always done. If a story seems moral, do not believe it. If at the end of a war story you feel uplifted, or if you feel that some small bit of rectitude has been salvaged from the larger waste, then you have been made the victim of a very old and terrible lie.” - Tim O’Brien, The Things They Carried This is not about the coverage of the Vietnam War, rather, it is about Hollywood’s representation of the war. It’s all about the power. The power to make images that may displace, distort and destroy knowledge of the history in which those lives participated. Delving into Hollywood’s history, the essay will concentrate on fictional movies rather than documentaries due to the fact that fictional stories tend to hold more ideology. Movies act as a medium to let us, the younger generations, experience what happened before us. We can see and feel Kennedy’s assassination, Martin Luther King Jr.’s funeral and to an extent feel the paints of war or at least learn the pains of war through film. By the same vision, feeling and pain are ours to take in a