Excessive Nudity..

Yeah, and I saw Schlindler's List, and thought how hard it must have been for those people to live in black and white. I mean, really- a world without color.

I was pretty shocked when it started turning into soft core porn, but yeah the violence was definitely more starteling.

Can't keep me off this escalator!

What, like the nudity of the screaming 11 year old girl who had all her clothes and pretty much the whole of her back burn off by American napalm.

Disgusting wasn't it?

That's a feckin' jazz haircut!

That you can watch this film and find only this element on which to comment says a lot about you. You need to have a good long look at your own soul. I know this original comment was made more than four years ago; I only hope that in the ensuing time you have matured.

"My brain rebelled, and insisted on applying logic where it was not welcome."

There's a kid without skin, a baby burned, a man shot in head... and you worry with nude? For me this movie should be "G" for everybody see what the Imperialism did with kids. Sex everybody does and is normal and we must learn since kids because sex is something everybody will do, but I hope someday the Empire falls and no mother need to run away with a baby burned by chemical weapons of the Empire. And UK rating system is the most pathetic and hilarious rating system of world.

and the scenes with prostitutes was mandatory because this is a documentary and that was reality. That's what empire soldiers did and that also should be documented.

I never thought that a war crime picture or scene, depicting a half burned girl, running with her skin off after a napalm attack could fall into the "extreme nudity and sexual content" category! That's beyond me, sorry! But if you insist, please be accurate, as the picture is not only sexual but sadomasochistic (burned and with her skin off) and pedophilia related (9 years old little girl) as well!

BTW how much sick an individual must be in order to find sexual content in a war crime scene? That is beyond me as well... Also did you sued your teacher for showing porno in class.

for that obscene girl:
Phan Thi Kim Phuc, (born 1963) is a Vietnamese girl (now a Vietnamese-Canadian citizen), best known as the child depicted in the Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph taken during the Vietnam War on June 8, 1972. The iconic photo taken in Trang Bang by AP photographer Nick Ut shows her at about nine years of age running naked on a road after being severely burned on her back by a South Vietnamese napalm attack. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phan_Thi_Kim_Phuc)

In this film about the monstrosity of the Vietnam War, in which millions were killed and we saw the suffering of the people under American bombs and napalm, it was the NUDITY that offended you? Not the sight of people's skin being burned off by napalm? The nudity was what you had a problem with, not the war? In a film depicting the horrors of war, the destruction of villages, the deaths of children, the burning of people's houses, the massive bombs which laid ruin to an entire country, the sight of people's skin being melted off by napalm, i'm astounded anyone would think to warn potential viewers about the nudity. The real "offensive" thing was the criminal war of US aggression against the people of Vietnam.

The scene of the soldiers with the prostitutes is necessary in my opinion to show how the people of Vietnam were treated by the invaders. Turned into prostitutes to serve the occupying army. There has always been a sexual element to colonialism and imperialism. It's part of why rape is always such a feature in war. It's about power; dominating the women of a country has the psychological effect of feeling dominant over the whole country. Exercising domination over the Vietnamese people by turning Vietnamese women into prostitutes who serve the invaders.

"None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free."
- Goethe

bucklandfiddler, I take it, you're not much of an open-minded person, are you? You're the type that when you go out to watch movies, you focus only on trivial things most people wouldn't notice or remember. You must have been a high school freshman when you saw it. Back then, boys that age only thought of sex and nothing else.