The Boys in Company C ending

"Living has got to be more important than winning"

This is the ending to the 1978 movie, The Boys In Company C. It's a film that documents the true story of Charlie company that saw service in Vietnam in '67-68 and included a group of young guys who knew nothing about war or fighting in a far off land. I'm uploading the ending to the film because this film gets maligned quite a bit for various reasons. But one thing that never gets mentioned by any movie critic is that the movie was inspired by a true account of a specific platoon sent to Vietnam. This wasn't just made up. Characters portrayed were based off of real people. That distinguishes this movie from other Vietnam war movies in my book. I think this film has been overlooked because of higher profile films that were made in the 80's, like Platoon and Full Metal Jacket. Both of those movies borrowed heavily from Boys in Company C. Those films also had a bigger budget. This Vietnam war movie broke ground, especially in stating head-on that the war in Vietnam was a civil war between North and South. Boys in Company C essentially made the case that the U.S. had no reason to be in Vietnam. Unfortunately, The Boys in Company C took on too many things which is what kept it from being a better movie. But all in all, it was one of the very first Vietnam war movies and it deserves a hell of a lot more respect than the bigger budget Vietnam war films of the 80's.