Movies about the Vietnam War

Movies about the Vietnam War
List of the best films about the Vietnam War according to visitors: The Last Full Measure, Platoon, Danger Close, Full Metal Jacket, Rescue Dawn, Apocalypse Now, We Were Soldiers, To the Ends of the World, Casualties of War, Tunnel Rats.

In the top there are new films of 2020, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

Genre
Country
Markimdb: 6.8
Genredrama, military, history
CountryUSA
CharactersHeroes, Military, Lawyers, Veterans
PlotOn real events, Investigation, Death, Cancer, Self-sacrifice
PlaceJungle, Vietnam, Hospitals
StyleAction, Soulful, Fascinating, For men

The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger and uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the decades-long denial of the medal, prompting Huffman to put his own career on the line to seek justice for the fallen airman.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genredrama, military, history
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:55
CharactersMilitary, Soldier, Warriors
PlotSkirmishes
PlaceJungle, Vietnam
StyleHeavy, Makes me think, Depressive, Serious

As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genreaction, drama, military, history
CountryAustralia
CharactersHeroes, Military, Soldier
PlotWar, On real events, Skirmishes, Fight
PlaceVietnam, Australia
StyleHeavy, Tense, Creepy, Serious, Disturbing

Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On August 18th, members of Delta Company will face the true horror of a ruthless battle among the trees of a rubber plantation called Long Tân. They are barely a hundred. The enemy is a human wave ready to destroy them.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genredrama, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration01:56
CharactersSnipers, Military, Friends, Soldier
PlotWar, Survival, Adventure, Skirmishes
PlaceVietnam
StyleHeavy, Depressive

A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, military, biography
CountryUSA, Luxembourg
Duration02:00
CharactersMilitary, Soldier, Pilots
PlotWar, On real events, Survival, Prison Break
PlaceJungle, Vietnam
StyleAction, Heavy, Depressive, Disturbing

A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.

Markimdb: 8.5
Genreaction, drama, military, history
CountryUSA
Duration03:14
CharactersMilitary, Soldier
PlotWar, Apocalypse, Skirmishes
PlaceJungle, Vietnam, Asia
StylePsychological problems, Action, Depressive

At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genreaction, drama, military, history
CountryUSA, Germany, France
Duration02:18
CharactersHeroes, Military, Soldier
PlotWar, On real events, Death
PlaceVietnam
StyleSoulful, Fascinating, Heavy, Serious, Disturbing

The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genredrama, military
CountryFrance
CharactersHorses, Gay, Snake, Writers
PlotWar, Survival, Death
PlaceVietnam
StyleHeavy, Tense

Indochina, 1945. While the French are harassed by both the Japanese army and the Vietnamese rebels, private Robert Tassen, driven by the memory of a tragedy of which he is the only survivor, embarks on the search for the mysterious and cruel Võ Bình Yên, one of the leaders of the insurrection.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genreaction, drama, crime, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:53
CharactersMilitary, Soldier
PlotWar, On real events, Abduction, Investigation, Justice
PlaceVietnam
StyleAction, Heavy, Serious, Disturbing

During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager. Based on the actual events of an incident on Hill 192 in November, 1966.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genreaction, drama, military
CountryCanada, Germany
CharactersSoldier
PlotSurvival
PlaceVietnam
StyleHeavy

During the Vietnam War [1959-1975] a special US combat unit is sent out to hunt and kill the Viet Cong soldiers in a man-to-man combat in the endless tunnels underneath the jungle of Vietnam. Suicide squads of a special kind.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genredrama, military
CountryUSA
CharactersHeroes, Military, Soldier, Orphans
PlotWar, Survival, Apocalypse, Adventure, Political
PlaceJungle, Vietnam
TimeWorld War II
StyleExciting, Fascinating, Makes me think, Serious, For men

Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for two missions in South Vietnam. The first is to strengthen a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy. The second is to kidnap a North Vietnamese General.

Markimdb: 3.9
Genreaction
CountryUSA
CharactersSoldier
PlaceVietnam

A trio of soldiers vow revenge on their platoon when they are left behind enemy lines. When they come across a missing contingent in a Vietnamese village, alliances dissolve and each step forward will come with a price.

Markimdb: 8.8
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, military, history
CountryUSA
Duration02:22
CharactersFriends, Losers, Soldier, Good people
PlotLove, War, Adventure, Sports, Travel
PlaceChina, USA, New York
StyleInteresting, Popular, Kind, To cry, Soulful

A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events - in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. Yet, despite all the things he has attained, his one true love eludes him. 'Forrest Gump' is the story of a man who rose above his challenges, and who proved that determination, courage, and love are more important than ability.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, military
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:41
CharactersMilitary, Friends, Losers
PlotUprising
PlaceVietnam
StyleAction, To cry, Soulful, Heavy, Smart

A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971.

Markimdb: 8.1
Genredrama, military
CountryUSA
Duration03:03
CharactersSoldier
PlotWar, Survival, Friendship
PlaceVillage, Vietnam, USSR, Party
StylePsychological problems, Fascinating, Heavy, Epic, Depressive

A group of working-class friends decides to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:45
CharactersHeroes, Military, Soldier
PlotWar, On real events, Survival, Adventure, Friendship
PlaceJungle, Vietnam, Asia
StyleExciting, Heavy, Tense, Serious, For men

Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows the area he's in is going to be carpet-bombed but a temporary shortage of helicopters causes a delay. Working with an Air Force reconnaissance pilot, Capt. Bartholomew Clark, he maps out an escape route.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genreaction, drama, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:49
CharactersMilitary, Soldier
PlotWar, On real events, Survival, Skirmishes
PlaceJungle, Vietnam, Asia
StyleHeavy, Gloomy, Serious, Disturbing

The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it chews up soldiers like chopped meat. They are fighting for their country, their fellow soldiers and their lives. War is hell, but this is worse. Hamburger Hill tells it the way it was, the way it really was. It's a raw, gritty and totally unrelenting dramatic depiction of one of the fiercest battles of America's bloodiest war. This happened. Hamburger Hill - war at its worst, men at their best.

Markimdb: 8.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:53
CharactersTaxi drivers, Introverts, Drivers
PlotObsession, Loneliness, Mental disorders, Depression, Insomnia
PlaceNew York
StyleHeavy, Depressive, Disturbing

A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genreaction, comedy, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:53
CharactersCIA, Heroes, Military, Losers, Pilots
PlotFate, Justice
PlaceAircraft, Vietnam, Helicopters
StyleExciting, Light, Smart, For men

Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited into it, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.

Markimdb: 8
Genredocumentary, military
CountryLuxembourg
Duration01:36
CharactersPhotographers, Reporters
PlotWar, Political

Documentary about war photographer James Nachtwey, considered by many the greatest war photographer ever.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genreaction, drama, military, history
CountryRussia, Ukraine, Finland
Duration02:19
CharactersHeroes, Military, Soldier
PlotWar, On real events, Friendship, Death
PlaceAfghanistan
StyleExciting, Heavy, Serious, For men, Disturbing

The picture opens in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, in late 1988, when military trainees Petrovsky, Ryaba, Chugun, Stas, Pinochet, Lyutev and Vorobyev are whipped into shape at a training camp by the brutal, sadistic commander, Warrant Officer Dygalo - prior to being sent off to the front lines. After several one-by-one dalliances with the local whore, Snow White, and a cautionary lecture on the history, geography and culture of Afghanistan (which most of the men sleep through), the trainees head off to battle - first to the Bagram air base, then to the Afghani province of Khost to secure supply lines. But nothing can begin to prepare them for the brutal devastation into which they are plunged, or the relentless tide of slaughter that scatters thousands of Soviet victims in its wake.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, drama, military, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:56
CharactersMilitary
PlotWar, On real events, Marine Corps, Radio, Uprising
PlaceVietnam, Asia
StyleTo cry, Soulful, Fancy

Radio funny man Adrian Cronauer is sent to Vietnam to bring a little comedy back into the lives of the soldiers. After setting up shop, Cronauer delights the G.I.s but shocks his superior officer, Sergeant Major Dickerson, with his irreverent take on the war. While Dickerson attempts to censor Cronauer's broadcasts, Cronauer pursues a relationship with a Vietnamese girl named Trinh, who shows him the horrors of war first-hand.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genremelodrama, drama, military
CountryUSA
Duration02:07
CharactersMilitary, Disabled people, Soldier
PlotLove, War, Love triangle, Marine Corps
PlaceVietnam, California, Los Angeles
StyleSoulful, Fascinating, Gloomy, Makes me think, Touching

The wife of a Marine serving in Vietnam, Sally Hyde decides to volunteer at a local veterans hospital to occupy her time. There she meets Luke Martin, a frustrated wheelchair-bound vet who has become disillusioned with the war. Sally and Luke develop a friendship that soon turns into a romance.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genredrama, adventure, military
CountryUSA
CharactersVeterans, Old men
PlotSkirmishes
PlaceVietnam

Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of the immorality of the Vietnam War.

Markimdb: 7
Genredrama, military, history
CountryHong Kong, USA
Duration02:05
CharactersHeroes, Military, Friends, Soldier, Teachers
PlotWar, Friendship, Marine Corps, Uprising
PlaceVietnam, Asia
StyleExciting, Heavy, Depressive, Serious, For men

Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander, the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they purposely lose a soccer game against a South Vietnamese team, they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind the lines.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genreaction, thriller, adventure
CountryUSA, Mexico
Duration01:34
CharactersSpecial Forces, Heroes, Soldier
PlotWar, Revenge, Chase, Rivalry
PlaceVietnam, Helicopters, Asia
StyleExciting, Heavy, Serious, For men, Disturbing

John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return—the jungles of Vietnam.

Markimdb: 8
Genredocumentary, biography, sport
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration01:40
PlotBoxing, Rivalry
StyleFascinating

Ten of Muhammad Ali's former rivals pay tribute to the three-time world heavyweight champion.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genredrama, biography, sport
CountryNew Zealand, Japan, USA
Duration02:07
CharactersGood people
PlotOn real events, Racing, Adventure, Travel, Motorcycles
PlaceDeserts
StyleTo cry, Inspirational, Philosophical, Fascinating, Touching

The life story of New Zealander Burt Munro, who spent years building a 1920 Indian motorcycle -- a bike which helped him set the land-speed world record at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats in 1967.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genremelodrama, drama, military
CountryUSA
Duration01:32
CharactersFriends, Soldier

When a young soldier in Vietnam gets dumped by his hometown girl, he and his best friend decide to go AWOL and return to the States to win her back.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, drama, biography, history
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration01:42
CharactersCIA, Special agents, Millionaires, Womanizers
PlotOn real events, Friendship, Political, Cheating
PlaceAfghanistan, Party, Texas, Helicopters
TimeCold War
StyleSmart, Makes me think

The true story of Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets had some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.





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