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Dec 18, 2023 · A list of 31 films compiled on Letterboxd, including The Passerine Bird (1962), Miss Tu Hau (1963), Sea Of Fire (1965), Rising Storm (1966) and Warrior, Who Are You (1971). About this list: This is a list of films exploring the Vietnam War from a Vietnamese perspective.
In the 1980s, a popular genre of Vietnam-related films was revenge fantasies that featured a Vietnam veteran or veterans returning to Vietnam to vanquish the Vietnamese, of which the most popular was the 1985 film Rambo: First Blood Part II.
- Platoon. Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen. 2,038 votes. Oliver Stone's Platoon is an iconic film that captures the raw emotion and brutality of the Vietnam War.
- Full Metal Jacket. Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio. 1,988 votes. Masterfully directed by Stanley Kubrick, Full Metal Jacket is an unforgettable exploration of the psychological impact of war on soldiers.
- Apocalypse Now. Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen, Robert Duvall. 1,855 votes. Directed by Francis Ford Coppola, Apocalypse Now is a haunting, visually stunning exploration of the darkest corners of the soul under the strain of war.
- We Were Soldiers. Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear. 1,602 votes. Based on the acclaimed book We Were Soldiers Once…and Young, this gripping film tells the harrowing true story of the first major battle between American and North Vietnamese forces.
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- Apocalypse Now. Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is a burnt-out Special Ops soldier assigned to sneak into Cambodia and assassinate a rogue U.S. colonel (Marlon Brando) who has apparently gone insane.
- Platoon. Wanting to do his part to help the American war effort in Vietnam, college dropout Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) volunteers for the U.S. Army.
- Full Metal Jacket. Divided cleanly into two acts, "Full Metal Jacket" follows a group of Marine recruits as they complete basic training under the watchful eye of their sadistic drill sergeant (Lee Ermey).
- The Deer Hunter. In 1968, best friends Mike, Steven, and Nick (Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, and John Savage, respectively) are drafted into the U.S. Army.
- Deathdream (aka Dead of Night, 1972) Director: Bob Clark. This scuzzy 70s shocker is a bracingly inventive rumination on what would in years to come be recognised as combat-induced post-traumatic stress disorder.
- Hearts and Minds (1974) Director: Peter Davis. Peter Davis’s Oscar-winning documentary is an anguished but lucidly reasoned plea for America’s withdrawal from Vietnam, completed and released shortly before the fall of Saigon in 1975.
- Coming Home (1978) Director: Hal Ashby. It’s all too easy to sneer at Hal Ashby’s melodramatic, sometimes earnest tale of a woman (Jane Fonda, whose controversial activism had made her a right-wing hate figure during the war) torn between loyalty to her conservative military captain husband (Bruce Dern) and her growing affection for a paraplegic Vietnam veteran (Jon Voight).
- Apocalypse Now (1979) Director: Francis Ford Coppola. “My film is not about Vietnam. It is Vietnam… We were in the jungle, there were too many of us, we had access to too much money, too much equipment, and little by little we went insane.”
Jan 22, 2024 · Heaven & Earth (1993) Caught in the middle of the devastation of the Vietnam War and abused by soldiers and leaders on both sides of the conflict, Le Ly (Hiep Thi Le) attempts to find her...
