The Forgotten (1989)

Based on a story by Vietnam veteran Paul Staples the film concerns six American Green Berets held for 17 years in a Vietnamese POW camp They are finally released in secret during a delicate tradetalk session between Vietnam and the United States Captain Tom Watkins the exprisoners CO begins to suspect that governmentman Adam Roth who is in charge of the debriefing may be pursuing a hidden agenda that will result in the early deaths of Watkins and the five men under his command