Vietnam War in Film - List

List

Year Country Title Director Events depicted
1958 USA The Quiet American Joseph L. Mankiewicz First Indochina War
1959 North Vietnam Chung một dòng sông Nguyễn Hồng Nghi, Phạm Hiếu Dân About the partition of Vietnam following the Geneva Conference
1964 USA A Yank in Viet-Nam Marshall Thompson A USMC pilot is shot down, but meets a female guerrilla
1965 France
Spain
The 317th Platoon Pierre Schoendoerffer First Indochina War
See also the documentary The Anderson Platoon
1965 USA Motorpsycho Russ Meyer A US motorcycle gang is led by a disturbed veteran
1966 USA To the Shores of Hell Will Zens
1968 USA The Green Berets John Wayne,
Ray Kellogg
1971 South Vietnam Người tình không chân dung Hoàng Vĩnh Lộc
1972 North Vietnam Vĩ tuyến 17 ngày và đêm Hải Ninh
1972 USA The Visitors Elia Kazan
1974 North Vietnam Em bé Hà Nội Hải Ninh Operation Linebacker II
1977 USA Heroes Jeremy Kagan Veteran
1977 Hong Kong
USA
The Boys in Company C Sidney J. Furie
1978 USA Coming Home Hal Ashby Disabled veteran
1978 USA
UK
The Deer Hunter Michael Cimino Three friends from Pennsylvania go off to fight in the Vietnam War, and come back changed men.
1978 USA Good Guys Wear Black Ted Post
1978 USA Go Tell the Spartans Ted Post
1978 USA My Husband is Missing Richard Michaels
1979 USA Apocalypse Now Francis Ford Coppola A special forces officer is called in to locate and kill a special forces colonel who has allegedly gone insane.
1979 USA Hair (film) Miloš Forman Hair is a 1979 American film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical of the same name about a Vietnam war draftee who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center.
1979 Vietnam Cánh đồng hoang Nguyễn Hồng Sến American bombing
1979 Australia The Odd Angry Shot Tom Jeffrey
1980 USA The Exterminator James Glickenhaus
1980 Italy The Last Hunter Antonio Margheriti
1981 UK How Sleep the Brave Lyndon James Swift
1982 USA First Blood Ted Kotcheff
1982 Hong Kong Boat People Ann Hui The Fall of Saigon and its aftermath
1982 Vietnam Ván bài lật ngửa Lê Hoàng Hoa Biopic of the North Vietnamese spy Pham Ngoc Thao
1983 USA Streamers Robert Altman
1983 USA Uncommon Valor Ted Kotcheff
1984 USA Missing in Action Joseph Zito
1984 USA Purple Hearts Sidney J. Furie Love story between a surgeon (Ken Wahl) and a nurse (Cheryl Ladd) who are serving in the U.S. Navy during the war.
1985 USA Missing in Action 2: The Beginning Lance Hool
1985 Vietnam
USSR
Coordinates of Death
(Target for Death\Coordinates of Death)
Samvel Gasparov,
Suan Tian Nguyen
1986 USA Combat Shock Buddy Giovinazzo
1986 USA Moon in Scorpio Gary Graver Three Vietnam-vet buddies go sailing and are attacked by the back-from-the-dead victims of a bloody war crime.
1986 UK
USA
Platoon Oliver Stone A new recruit's service in a platoon of soldiers patrolling the Cambodian border
1987 USA
Philippines
Eye of the Eagle Cirio H. Santiago
1987 UK
USA
Full Metal Jacket Stanley Kubrick Battle of Hue
1987 USA Good Morning, Vietnam Barry Levinson
1987 USA Hamburger Hill John Irvin The battle for Hill 937 in Ashau Valley
1987 USA The Hanoi Hilton Lionel Chetwynd
1987 Italy
Philippines
Phantom Soldiers Irvin Johnson
1988 USA Braddock: Missing in Action III Aaron Norris
1988 USA Off Limits Christopher Crowe
1988 USA 84C MoPic Patrick Sheane Duncan
1988 USA Operation Warzone David A. Prior
1988 Italy
USA
Last Platoon Ignazio Dolce
1988 USA Platoon Leader Aaron Norris An inexperienced officer learns the ropes of fighting in Vietnam
1988 USA Bat*21 Peter Markle Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton's experience of survival while MIA
1989 USA The Iron Triangle Eric Weston
1989 Australia
Philippines
The Siege of Firebase Gloria Brian Trenchard-Smith
1989 USA Jacknife David Jones
1989 USA Casualties of War Brian De Palma The incident on Hill 192
1989 Philippines
USA
Eye of the Eagle 2: Inside the Enemy Carl Franklin
1989 USA Born on the Fourth of July Oliver Stone Ron Kovic becomes paralysed during battle, and his experiences coming home
1989 USA The Expendables Cirio H. Santiago
1989 Philippines
USA
Eye of the Eagle 3 Cirio H. Santiago
1990 USA Air America Roger Spottiswoode
1990 USA Jacob's Ladder Adrian Lyne
1990 China Bullet in the Head John Woo
1991 USA Flight of the Intruder John Milius
1992 France Diên Biên Phu Pierre Schoendoerffer The 1954 Battle of Dien Bien Phu in the First Indochina War
1992 South Korea White Badge Jeong Ji-yeong
1993 USA
France
Heaven & Earth Oliver Stone
1994 USA Forrest Gump Robert Zemeckis
1995 USA The Walking Dead Preston A. Whitmore II
1995 USA Operation Dumbo Drop Simon Wincer
1995 USA Dead Presidents Albert Hughes
1998 USA A Bright Shining Lie Terry George
1999 Vietnam The Sound of the Violin in My Lai (Tiếng vỹ cầm ở Mỹ Lai) Tran Van Thuy My Lai Massacre
2000 USA
Germany
Tigerland Joel Schumacher
2001 Canada
USA
Under Heavy Fire Sidney J. Furie
2002 USA
UK
Australia
France
Germany
The Quiet American Phillip Noyce
2002 USA Path to War John Frankenheimer
2002 USA
Germany
We Were Soldiers Randall Wallace Battle of Ia Drang
2003 Vietnam Hà Nội 12 ngày đêm Bùi Đình Hạc Operation Linebacker II
2005 Vietnam Sống trong sợ hãi (Living in Fear) Bùi Thạc Chuyên South Vietnamese soldier being mistreated by Communist brother-in-law after the war
2005 Vietnam Giải phóng Sài Gòn (Liberate Sai Gon) Fall of Saigon
2006 USA
Canada
The Veteran Sidney J. Furie
2006 USA Rescue Dawn Werner Herzog Dieter Dengler's experience as a POW
2007 Canada
USA
Germany
1968 Tunnel Rats Uwe Boll
2007 USA Across the Universe Julie Taymor
2007 USA Journey from the Fall Ham Tran
2008 South Korea Sunny (님은 먼곳에) Lee Joon-ik
2009 Italy My Lai Four Paolo Bertola The My Lai Massacre by US forces

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