Return With Honor

Inspired by an oral history project documenting the experiences of Air Force Academy graduates who were prisoners of war in Vietnam, this moving, unsensational documentary relies largely on the memories of former POWs themselves. Largely sidestepping the era's bitterly divisive politics to focus on their experiences, it chronicles America's entry into the Vietnam War through the eyes of mostly youthful air force pilots who rushed to gain combat experience and were captured in its first skirmishes: Some were held for nearly a decade. Directors Frieda Lee Mock and Terry Sanders combine archival footage (including material from Vietnamese sources never before seen in ...