How Sleep the Brave is a 1982 Vietnam war film directed and produced by Lindsay Shonteff. Entirely shot in Berkshire, England,[1] it stars Lawrence Day, Luis Manuel, Thomas M. Polland and Christopher Muncke. The script was written by Bobby Bauer and Jeremy Lee Francis. It was co-produced by Elizabeth Laurie and Lindsay Shonteff.
On Christmas 1969, during the Vietnam War, a group of fresh, young American soldiers arrive at an army camp in Vietnam and are sent to patrol in a nearby jungle. After they kill a few Viet Cong soldiers and lose a couple of their comrades in the battle, they return to camp. They are sent on a mission to destroy a Viet Cong village. After they destroy the village, they embark on a hazardous journey through a jungle to board a helicopter and return to camp. But, it's only a matter of who will survive the Viet Cong's gunshots and make it to the helicopter.