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- DirectorAntonio PerezStarsRobert MariusJeff GriffithMike MontyTrained as soldiers with a string of medals, yet nothing in their experience prepared them for the mission of their lives.
- DirectorPierre SchoendoerfferStarsJacques PerrinBruno CremerPierre FabreIn Vietnam, 1954, a French platoon isolated behind enemy lines tries to come back. It is led by the inexperienced, idealistic sous-lieutenant Torrens, and by adjutant Willsdorf, a WWII veteran of the Wehrmacht.
- DirectorPatrick Sheane DuncanStarsJonathan EmersonNicholas CasconeJason TomlinsThe title refers to the U.S. Army's former "MOS" (job code) for a combat cameraman. The story follows a unit of American G.I.s in Vietnam, all with different backgrounds and motives for being there, through the lens of his camera.
- DirectorHong Sen NguyenStarsToi LamThuy An NguyenDe XuanThe story of a young man and his wife who struggle to survive against a hostile force intent upon driving them out of their home in the swamps of the Mekong Delta.
- DirectorAndrew DavisStarsSteven SeagalPam GrierHenry SilvaA former Special Operations Vietnam vet works as a Chicago cop, and uncovers C.I.A. wrongdoing.
- DirectorArt NapoleonStarsMichael SmithLesley TaplinTom MaierMike, a college student, makes an impassioned anti-war speech on campus, which is carried on live television, causing a storm of controversy. His girlfriend leaves him, but he finds himself attracted to her roommate Lee, and they fall in love. He must choose between his love for Lee and his dedication to the anti-war cause.
- DirectorArthur PennStarsArlo GuthriePatricia QuinnJames BroderickA cinematic adaption of Arlo Guthrie's classic story-song.
- DirectorBruce KesslerStarsTom SternTed MarklandJack StarrettA destructive ex-motorcycle gang leader comes home from Vietnam to resume his life. His desire to form a powerful gang has the police running scared. But, will he succeed...
- DirectorGreydon ClarkStarsGreydon ClarkTom JohnigarnJacqulin ColeA white ex-GI goes to a Black ghetto to deliver a letter from his buddy, a Black soldier who died in Vietnam, but when he gets there he encounter hostility and trouble from all sides.
- DirectorDanny BoyleStarsLeonardo DiCaprioTilda SwintonDaniel YorkOn vacation in Thailand, Richard sets out for an island rumored to be a solitary beach paradise.
- DirectorJoel CoenEthan CoenStarsJeff BridgesJohn GoodmanJulianne MooreJeff "The Dude" Lebowski, mistaken for a millionaire of the same name, seeks restitution for his ruined rug and enlists his bowling buddies to help get it.
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsPeter BernuthIn the process of shaving, a young man cuts himself. A lot.
- DirectorJohn FrankenheimerStarsRobert ShawBruce DernMarthe KellerWhen a Black September terrorist group begins a plot to carry out a massive terrorist attack in the United States, an Israeli commando works with the FBI to identify the target and conspirators, and prevent the plan from succeeding.
- DirectorWilliam A. LeveyStarsJohn HartIvory StoneJoe De SueEddie is a Vietnam war veteran who loses both his arms and his legs when he steps on a land mine. A brilliant surgeon is able to attach new limbs, but his assistant switches the DNA injections, transforming him into a huge hulking monster.
- DirectorWayne IrvingStarsWallace TerryJudy WoodruffA high percentage of men on frontlines in Vietnam were young, poor, undereducated, and black.
- DirectorAndy WarholStarsVivaLouis WaldonViva and Louis Waldon spend an idyllic afternoon together in an apartment in New York City.
- DirectorMort LachmanStarsBob HopeJim NaborsJill St. John
- DirectorBarry LevinsonStarsRobin WilliamsForest WhitakerTom T. TranIn 1965, an unorthodox and irreverent DJ named Adrian Cronauer begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the U.S. Armed Services radio station in Vietnam.
- StarsFrank CampbellAnn TranThis video captures the conversation between a Vietnam combat veteran and a Vietnamese American doctoral psychology student at the Santa Rosa VA Clinic. The Vietnam veteran attended an anger management group that the Vietnamese American student co-led. The veteran experienced a significant increase in his Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) symptoms when he joined the group due to her presence. As the group progressed, the veteran revealed that, during his combat tour in Vietnam, he had killed a young Vietnamese woman who closely resembled the Vietnamese American doctoral student. The veteran talks about the process of healing and his on-going recovery from the event as well as other traumatic events in Vietnam. Themes include combat-related trauma, PTSD, anger and guilt, and identity and meaning.
- DirectorPhilippe MoraStarsRutger HauerPowers BootheKathleen TurnerA conservationist and a widow meet a mountain climber hired to steal bald-eagle eggs.
- DirectorMinh Nguyen-VoStarsThe Lu LeThi Kieu Trinh NguyenHuu Thanh NguyenSet along the southern coast of Vietnam during the French occupation in the 1940s, water is everywhere, giving life and bringing decay and rot. Kim is 15; his father and step-mother have two buffalo, their lifeline as subsistence rice farmers. During the rainy season, there's no grass and the buffalo are starving. Kim volunteers to take the beasts inland to find food. On this coming-of-age journey, Kim sees men mistreat women, men fight with men, and French taxes rob the poor. He works for Lap, a buffalo herder whose past is entangled with Kim's parents, and he makes friends who will lead him to his place in the world.
- DirectorPeter CollinsonStarsPeter FondaCornelia SharpeJohn Phillip LawThree young men take a young woman and a middleaged man to an isolated cabin, where they are terrorized in different ways.
- DirectorDon MedfordStarsRobert ConradErin GrayRed WestJim Brandon, a former player of the Chigago Bears, was paralyzed during the Vietnam War. When he returns, he tries to get a job as a football coach, but he doesn't succeed. After a visit to the youth prison, St. Charles, he thinks of becoming the football coach there. He decides to do it, because he likes the challenge. The boys, young delinquents, don't accept him, but he goes all out to be accepted.
- DirectorLane SlateTom SternStarsTom SternTelly SavalasRobert VaughnAn ex-soldier is recruited by the FBI to go undercover in L.A. and find other ex-soldiers who are part of a drug-dealing gang.
- StarsRaymond Burr
- DirectorKemal HoruluSidney KnightSimon NuchternStarsJohn RossLinda SouthernSusan SparlingA man must decide whether to flee the U.S. draft and go to stay in Canada or go fight for his country in Vietnam.
- DirectorShimon DotanStarsMichael ParéMacha GrenonPeter GreeneA small town deputy goes toe to toe with a dangerous underworld kingpin in the midwest.
- DirectorCecil HowardStarsDavid JohnBrad FriedmanRuth CollinsBuzz shows his artwork to Norman at the employment agency. Norman laughs in his face. Buzz takes this personally and later returns to the office building with his friends Goose and Jo Jo. They systematically terrorize the people in different offices on the 13th floor, with only a few grizzled Vietnam veterans and a suicidal lawyer to try and stop them.
- DirectorFloyd MutruxStarsDermot MulroneyRicky SchroderKelli WilliamsGraduates of a Los Angeles high school in 1965 see America's culture and politics gradually change.
- DirectorMark Blezinger
- DirectorPierre SchoendoerfferStarsDonald PleasencePatrick CatalifoJean-François BalmerAn American reporter finds himself in the middle of the 57-day battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam between the French army and the Vietminh, which finally resulted in the defeat and surrender of the French forces and France's eventual withdrawal from Vietnam.
- DirectorStanley KramerStarsGene HackmanCandice BergenRichard WidmarkA Vietnam War veteran who's been imprisoned for murder is offered freedom if he agrees to commit a contract killing for a shady organization.
- DirectorCharles KoppelmanStarsEsperanza CatubigArt DesuyoDaphne AshbrookJohn Shed, a black American, lives precariously, at the margins of Silicon Valley, with his white girl friend, Belinda. His life is thrown out of balance when his half-Vietnamese daughter, Minh, arrives from a refugee camp in Thailand. Father and daughter begin a parallel search for belonging and identity amidst the salt ponds and tract homes of the south San Francisco Bay Area rarely seen in films.
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsJames WoodsJim BelushiMichael MurphyA burnt-out photojournalist becomes involved in a Central American revolution.El Salvador another vietnam but in south america. A fight against the govt and the communists.
- DirectorPaul KrasnyStarsBruce BoxleitnerTiana Alexandra-SilliphantMichael BeckAn American photojournalist is sent to Saigon to cover the Vietnam War.
- DirectorNoel NosseckStarsJace AlexanderGeorge American HorseJohn AndersonAn ex-marine, in search of some defining life direction, unexpectedly faces a hurdle when his jeep breaks down in a sparsely populated Wyoming town. While waiting for parts to repair the vehicle he takes a temporary job as a rest area attendant and moves onto a ranch run by a one-legged widow with a mentally handicapped son. When an abandoned Vietnamese girl joins the group, the scene is ready for confrontation and tragedy.
- DirectorMark RydellStarsBette MidlerJames CaanGeorge SegalTalented USO entertainer Dixie Leonard and comedian Eddie Sparks deal with their relationship over the course of 5 decades from World War II to the Vietnam War era to their twilight era in the 90's.
- DirectorWalter GraumanStarsDennis WeaverLois NettletonAnne FrancisFormer Vietnam War POW Lt.Joe Hardy returns home to the US where he finds a totally changed life situation and where he struggles with PTSD.
- DirectorStig BjörkmanStarsDiana SandsDirk BenedictMinnie GentryGeorgia, an African-American singer, travels to the Swedish city of Stockholm for a performance. There, she meets an American deserter and soon they have fallen in love. But Georgia's friend and assistant, Alberta, warns her to stick to her own kind.
- DirectorMel DamskiStarsCheryl LaddTony DenisonMelissa ChanA home is divided when a 13-year-old Vietnamese girl moves in with a family of an ex-GI who believes that she may be his illegitimate daughter.
- DirectorGraeme CliffordStarsChristian SlaterSteven BauerRichard HerdA young avid skateboarder uncovers a government conspiracy while investigating his adoptive brother's mysterious death.
- DirectorEdwin SherinStarsArthur KennedyMitchell RyanWilliam DevaneTwo soldiers return from Vietnam with serious PTSD. They decide to go for a couple of days to a peaceful farm owned by the father of one of the men. A psychotic sergeant who also did tours in Nam, joins them. Personalities clash hard.
- StarsLouis Gossett Jr.
- StarsDavid ScottThe UH-1 Huey, the most widely used military helicopter in the world, began to arrive in Vietnam in 1963. Before the conflict ended, more than 5,000 of these versatile aircraft were employed in Southeast Asia. The copters were used for a variety of purposes, including MedEvac, command and control, air assault, transport of personnel and material, and as gun ships. From the three-part series Wings Over Vietnam comes an in-depth look at the role this aircraft played in Vietnam and how it came to symbolize the war itself. Meet the commanders of this military legend and hear gripping stories of the special breed of men who piloted Huey. Companion videos in the set include Wings Vietnam: A-4 Skyhawk and Wings Vietnam: F-105 Thunderchief.
- StarsWalter Cronkite
- DirectorRobert KennerStarsMichael HagiwaraPing WuA documentary about the Battle of Ong Thanh and the protest at the University of Wisconsin-Madison during the Vietnam War.
- DirectorFreida Lee MockTerry SandersStarsEverett Alvarez Jr.Ron BlissFred CherryThe story of U.S. fighter pilots shot down over North Vietnam who became POWs for up to 8 and a half years.
- DirectorMel Halbach
- DirectorCoco SchrijberStarsEddie AdamsMichael HerrVeterans of the Vietnam War tell about their experiences. The disasters but also the glorious moments of war. The central figure in the documentary is the scenario writer of Full Metal Jacket, Michael Herr. The veterans describe how it felt to kill for the first time and how those feelings still hunt them.
- DirectorMickey GrantStarsBa Ong NgoThi Dinh NguyenPhuong Dong HuynhDuring the Vietnam war, thousands of people in the province of Cu Chi lived in an elaborate system of underground tunnels. This film tells the story of life underground, and the fight to defeat the US, by those who lived the experience.
- DirectorGreydon ClarkStarsGreydon ClarkTom JohnigarnJacqulin ColeA white ex-GI goes to a Black ghetto to deliver a letter from his buddy, a Black soldier who died in Vietnam, but when he gets there he encounter hostility and trouble from all sides.
- DirectorLouis MorneauStarsMichael DudikoffCary-Hiroyuki TagawaTyrin TurnerA group of prisoners are going to Vietnam to rescue the daughter of a V-I.P. The Ones who survive get their freedom back...but hell awaits them.
- DirectorBen StillerStarsBen StillerJack BlackRobert Downey Jr.Through a series of freak occurrences, a group of actors shooting a big-budget war movie are forced to become the soldiers they are portraying.
- DirectorEddie RomeroStarsTimothy BottomsJohn Phillip LawCandy RaymondFilipino actor Eddie Romero directs this arresting drama set during the Vietnam War. A handful of prisoners escape their captors but have to make their way through the thicket of the Vietnamese jungle.
- DirectorLek KitaparapornStarsRobert Walker Jr.Woody StrodeChristopher GeorgeAn American journalist returns to Cambodia to bring out the girlfriend he was forced to leave behind when the murderous Khmer Rouge took over the country.
- DirectorDavid WorthStarsJohn SavageMaría SocasEdgardo MoreiraFrank Morgan risked his life for his country in the Vietnam War, but when he came home, no hero's welcome awaited him; instead he was branded a traitor. Nonetheless, he's about to make one more trip into hell to save the woman he loves and preserve her war-torn country.