Vietnam vets dig up the ghosts of the racist past
In 1968, Martin Luther King is assassinated by a white racist, prompting riots across the US, and a group of African-American GIs in Vietnam wonder why they are fighting for a country in which black lives don’t seem to matter. Fifty years later, they return to Vietnam (right) to recover the remains of a fallen comrade and a trunk of gold they buried in the jungle. Now they have to face the ghosts of the past. Spike Lee’s latest movie is a war film with hat-tips to Apocalypse Now, a treasure hunt and a grumpyold-men comedy, and is one of Netflix’s biggest summer releases. From Friday