List of Vietnam War films
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This article lists notable films related to the Vietnam War.
Representation of the Vietnamese in film
In film, people are able to portray people and events to fit the needs of the audience and the intended purpose of the film. However, it is also noted how certain people/communities may be biased for their perspective of said film. According to a study by Martin Novelli, the depictions of the Vietnamese in American war films is often negatively stereotyped. Vietnamese civilians are usually shown as passive victims, prostitutes, or conniving with the enemy, while North Vietnamese or NLF guerilla fighters are frequently drawn as cruel torturers or effeminate cowards, and the ARVN are described as incompetent. In addition, many relevant facts concerning the conception of the war, or America’s subsequent acknowledgement of how the war was a mistake were not properly addressed. Instead, filmmakers focused more on the themes of war compared with educating the populace with hard facts.
In Walsh and Louvre's opinion, "the ideology of such films speaks of several basic and widespread public attitudes towards the war".[1]
Donna Alvah reported that students writing an introductory essay on the war often reflect the perception shared by most Americans born after the war. According to Alvah, students' conceptions of the Vietnam War are "largely gleaned from movies, documentaries, music, and .. relatives who served in the war, or who in any case hold strong opinions about it."[2]
Post-war films
After the Vietnam War ended in 1975, there was an increase in American films that were more "raw", containing actual battle footage. A FilmReference.com article noted that American filmmakers "appeared more confident to put Vietnam combat on screen for the first time" during that era.[3] These American post-war film representations have generally been more realistic and gritty, such as The Deer Hunter (1978) and Apocalypse Now (1979).[3]
Theatrical films about the Vietnam War
Year | Country | Title | Director | Events depicted |
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1964 | US | A Yank in Viet-Nam | Marshall Thompson | A USMC pilot is shot down, but meets a female guerrilla; filmed in South Vietnam |
1966 | US | To the Shores of Hell | Will Zens | A US Marine officer leads a rescue attempt of his brother who is held prisoner by the Viet Cong |
1968 | US | The Green Berets | John Wayne, Ray Kellogg |
A tribute to U.S. Special Forces, starring John Wayne, filmed mostly in Georgia[4] |
1970 | US | The Losers | Jack Starrett | An American motorcycle gang is recruited for a mission into Cambodia |
1971 | South Vietnam | Đất khổ | Ha Thuc Can | |
1971 | South Vietnam | Người tình không chân dung | Hoàng Vĩnh Lộc | |
1972 | North Vietnam | Vĩ tuyến 17 ngày và đêm | Hải Ninh | Life of Vietnamese living on both sides of the 17th parallel that splits Vietnam into North and South |
1974 | US | There Is No 13 | William Sachs | Surrealist cinema based film involving a young Vietnam War soldier reminiscing about twelve love affairs with the cinematography ending before the subject of the thirteenth romance |
1975 | North Vietnam | Girl from Hanoi | Hải Ninh | Operation Linebacker II |
1978 | Hong Kong, US | The Boys in Company C | Sidney J. Furie | A group of Marines go through basic training and a tour of service in Vietnam in 1968 |
1978 | US | Go Tell the Spartans | Ted Post | US military advisers during the early part of the war (1964) |
1978 | US, UK | The Deer Hunter | Michael Cimino | Three friends from Pennsylvania go off to fight, and come back changed men[4] |
1979 | Australia | The Odd Angry Shot | Tom Jeffrey | Follows a group of Australian soldiers in Vietnam |
1979 | Vietnam | The Abandoned Field: Free Fire Zone (Cánh đồng hoang) | Nguyễn Hồng Sến | An "unnerving and compelling .. subjective-camera-eye-view" of life under helicopter fire in the Mekong Delta. The film cuts to an (American) "helicopter-eye view", contrasting painfully with the human tenderness seen earlier.[5] |
1979 | US | Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford Coppola | A special forces officer is called in to locate and kill a rogue colonel[4] in a retelling of Conrad's Heart of Darkness |
1980 | Italy | The Last Hunter | Antonio Margheriti | Set in 1973, a US officer goes on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines to blow up an enemy propaganda radio station |
1981 | UK | How Sleep the Brave | Lyndon James Swift | A group of new soldiers go on a mission in the jungle |
1982 | Vietnam | Ván bài lật ngửa | Lê Hoàng Hoa | Biopic of the North Vietnamese spy Pham Ngoc Thao |
1983 | US | Streamers | Robert Altman | Four soldiers awaiting deployment to Vietnam |
1984 | US | 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 | Vietnam, USSR | Coordinates of Death [6] (a.k.a. Target for Death) |
Samvel Gasparov, Suan Tian Nguyen |
Stranded Soviet sailors witness American war brutality |
1985 | US | Missing in Action 2: The Beginning | Lance Hool | U.S. POW breaks out of Vietnamese prison camp. |
1986 | US | Platoon | Oliver Stone | A new recruit's service in a platoon of soldiers patrolling the Cambodian border[4] |
1987 | US, Philippines | Eye of the Eagle | Cirio H. Santiago | US officer hunts down rogue GIs. |
1987 | US | Gardens of Stone | Francis Ford Coppola | Set in 1968-1969, James Caan plays the frustrated sergeant in charge of the Arlington National Cemetery ceremonial guard |
1987 | UK, US | Full Metal Jacket | Stanley Kubrick | Battle of Hue Tet Offensive[4] |
1987 | US | Hamburger Hill | John Irvin | Battle of Hamburger Hill in the Ashau Valley[4] |
1987 | US | Good Morning, Vietnam | Barry Levinson | Loosely based on the experiences of AFRS radio DJ Adrian Cronauer |
1988 | US | Off Limits | Christopher Crowe | Two US Criminal Investigation Command agents investigate murders of Vietnamese prostitutes by high-ranking US officers |
1988 | US | Platoon Leader | Aaron Norris | An inexperienced officer learns the ropes of fighting in Vietnam |
1988 | US | Bat*21 | Peter Markle | Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton's experience of survival while MIA |
1988 | US | 1969 | Ernest Thompson | The film deals with the Vietnam War and the resulting social tensions between those who support and oppose the war in small-town America. |
1989 | US | The Iron Triangle | Eric Weston | Viet Cong soldier protects captured GI who spared his life |
1989 | US, Philippines | The Siege of Firebase Gloria | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Marines defend a firebase during the Tet offensive |
1989 | US | 84C MoPic | Patrick Sheane Duncan | Found footage-style mockumentary follows a US Long-range reconnaissance patrol |
1989 | Philippines, US | Eye of the Eagle 2: Inside the Enemy | Carl Franklin | US soldier goes to rescue Vietnamese girlfriend who has been kidnapped by superior officer |
1989 | US | The Expendables | Cirio H. Santiago | Commando trains a group of misfit soldiers for dangerous mission |
1989 | US | Casualties of War | Brian De Palma | The incident on Hill 192[7] |
1989 | Hong Kong | A Better Tomorrow 3 | Tsui Hark | A crime story involving the struggle of Chinese mobsters and their family trying to get back to Hong Kong during the fall of Saigon. |
1989 | US | Born on the Fourth of July | Oliver Stone | Based on the experiences of Ron Kovic, who joins the Marines and is paralyzed and wounded in combat, then turning into a significant protester against the war.[8] |
1990 | US | Air America | Roger Spottiswoode | Air America pilots uncover U.S. plot to smuggle narcotics |
1990 | Hong Kong | Bullet in the Head | John Woo | Hong Kong mobsters travel to Vietnam during the war to smuggle illegal goods. They get entangled with both sides in the war. |
1991 | US | Flight of the Intruder | John Milius | A-6 Intruder pilots go on an unauthorized mission to bomb targets in North Vietnam |
1991 | US | Dogfight | Nancy Savoca | Dogfight shows the last night of several marines in San Francisco, before they are send to the Vietnam war. Only a short scene of the war itself is shown, wwere several of the Marines die. Later one marine gets back to San Francisco, where he realises that everything has changed, even the behaviour of the society towards the Marines. |
1991 | US | For The Boys | Mark Rydell | Characters Bette Midler and James Caan entertain the troops and experience turmoil |
1992 | South Korea | White Badge | Chung Ji-young | Story of two South Koreans who served in Vietnam |
1993 | US, France | Heaven & Earth | Oliver Stone | Based on the experiences of Vietnamese civilian Le Ly Hayslip of the Vietnam war and its aftermath. |
1994 | US | Forrest Gump | Robert Zemeckis | Title character serves in Vietnam |
1995 | US | The Walking Dead | Preston A. Whitmore II | In the waning days of the war, a group of Marines are sent to rescue US POWs |
1995 | US | Operation Dumbo Drop | Simon Wincer | Green Berets bribe Vietnamese villagers with an elephant |
1995 | US | Dead Presidents | Albert Hughes | Characters serve in Vietnam |
2000 | US, Germany | Tigerland | Joel Schumacher | US recruits go through basic training before going to Vietnam |
2002 | US, Germany | We Were Soldiers | Randall Wallace | Battle of Ia Drang |
2003 | Vietnam | Hà Nội 12 ngày đêm | Bùi Đình Hạc | Operation Linebacker II |
2003 | South Korea | The Classic | Kwak Jae-yong | A romantic movie set in 1968. Joon-ha joins the South Korean Army and goes to Vietnam. |
2004 | South Korea | R-Point | Kong Su-chang | South Korean unit is sent out to find missing platoon in this horror film |
2008 | South Korea | Sunny | Lee Joon-ik | Wife of South Korean serving in Vietnam takes job as singer to be near her husband |
2008 | Canada, US, Germany | 1968 Tunnel Rats | Uwe Boll | U.S. "Tunnel rats" who go into Viet Cong tunnel complexes |
2009 | Canada, US, Germany | 21 and a Wake-Up | Chris McIntyre | The film focuses on real people McIntyre knew in the Marines, as well as experiences of Dr. Marvin Wayne, renowned and decorated physician at the 24th Evac in its final year. |
2012 | Australia | The Sapphires (film) | Wayne Blair | The Sapphires is about four indigenous Australian women, Gail (Deborah Mailman), Julie (Jessica Mauboy), Kay (Shari Sebbens) and Cynthia (Miranda Tapsell), who are discovered by a talent scout (Chris O'Dowd), and form a music group named The Sapphires, travelling to Vietnam in 1968 to sing for troops during the war. |
2013 | Japan | Number Ten Blues | Norio Osada | Saigon in February 1975, during the final stage of the Vietnam War, there is another story of love and violence. Japanese businessman Sugimoto (Yūsuke Kawazu) accidentally kills a Vietnamese man. |
2014 | US | X-Men: Days of Future Past | Bryan Singer | A movie about the Paris Peace Accords. |
2014 | South Korea | Ode to My Father | Yoon Je-kyoon | The main character and his best friend serve in the Vietnam War. |
2017 | US | The Post (film) | Steven Spielberg | Set in the early 1970s, The Post depicts the true story of attempts by journalists at The Washington Post to publish the Pentagon Papers, classified documents regarding the 30-year involvement of the United States government in the Vietnam War. |
Theatrical films about the Vietnam War POWs
Year | Country | Title | Director | Events depicted |
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1987 | US | The Hanoi Hilton | Lionel Chetwynd | Mistreatment of U.S. POWs in the Hỏa Lò Prison |
2006 | US | Rescue Dawn | Werner Herzog | Dieter Dengler's experience as a POW |
Theatrical films about the Anti-Vietnam War movement
Year | Country | Title | Director | Events depicted |
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1969 | US | Hail, Hero! | David Miller | A young man (Michael Douglas in his screen debut) is torn between joining the army or becoming a hippie |
1979 | US | Hair | Miloš Forman | 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 |
1980 | US | Return of the Secaucus 7 | John Sayles | Reunion of anti-war protesters |
2007 | US | Across the Universe | Julie Taymor | The main character's best friend is drafted to fight in the war |
Theatrical films about Vietnam War veterans
Year | Country | Title | Director | Events depicted |
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1965 | US | Motorpsycho | Russ Meyer | A US motorcycle gang is led by a disturbed veteran |
1968 | US | Targets | Peter Bogdanovich | A disturbed Vietnam veteran goes on a sniper shooting spree after killing his wife and mother |
1972 | US | The Visitors | Elia Kazan | Vietnam veterans confront each other over war crime |
1973 | US | Forced Entry | Shaun Costello | An unnamed and psychotic Vietnam War veteran who returns from the Vietnam War sexually assaults and kills random women who stop at the filling station where he works as an gas station attendant |
1974 | Canada | Deathdream | Bob Clark | War veteran returns home as a living corpse |
1976 | US | Taxi Driver | Martin Scorsese | A mentally disturbed Vietnam veteran comes to New York City after the war, and gets a job driving taxicabs due to insomnia. He is unable to fit into society, displays obsessive behavior, and is driven to violence |
1976 | US | Zebra Force | Joe Tornatore | The film is about a group of Vietnam War veterans who declare war on Los Angeles drug dealers and the Mafia. |
1977 | US | Heroes | Jeremy Kagan | Amnesiac Vietnam veteran seeks out former comrades |
1977 | US | Rolling Thunder | John Flynn | A returning Vietnam veteran loses his family to a violent home invasion, and decides to seek and retaliate against those responsible. |
1978 | US | Coming Home | Hal Ashby | Homecoming of a Vietnam veteran |
1978 | US | Big Wednesday | John Milius | 3 surfer friends face the draft in 1965, one serves in Vietnam and they reunite in the early 1970s |
1980 | US | The Exterminator | James Glickenhaus | Vietnam veteran turns vigilante |
1982 | US | First Blood | Ted Kotcheff | John Rambo, a highly decorated special forces veteran traumatized by his experiences as a prisoner of war, goes on a rampage in a northwestern U.S. town against law enforcement officers who push him too far. |
1983 | US | Americana (film) | David Carradine | A down on his luck, former Green Beret captain, freshly discharged from the Vietnam War, drifts into Drury, Kansas. |
1985 | US | Alamo Bay | David Carradine | Alamo Bay is a 1985 drama film about a Vietnam veteran who clashes with Vietnamese immigrants who move to his fictitious Texas bay hometown. |
1986 | US | Combat Shock | Buddy Giovinazzo | Vietnam veteran goes insane (Troma film) |
1987 | Hong Kong | Eastern Condors | Sammo Hung | Lieutenant Colonel Lam is an American army officer given a top-secret mission by the US military. The mission entails entering Vietnam to destroy an old American bunker filled with missiles before the Viet Cong can get to them. |
1988 | US | Braddock: Missing in Action III | Aaron Norris | Vietnam vet goes back to Vietnam to rescue left behind wife and child |
1988 | US | Above the Law (film) | Andrew Davis | The main character was recruited into the CIA by Special Agent Nelson Fox and was involved in covert operations on the Vietnamese-Cambodian border during the Vietnam War. |
1989 | US | Jacknife | David Jones | Vietnam veterans have trouble adjusting to civilian life |
1989 | US | In Country | Norman Jewison | Daughter of deceased Vietnam vet explores her father's past through her uncle, also a vet |
1990 | US | Jacob's Ladder | Adrian Lyne | Vietnam vet is haunted by his past |
1991 | US | McBain | James Glickenhaus | Vietnam veterans reunite to depose a Colombian dictator |
1992 | US | Universal Soldier (1992 film) | Roland Emmerich | The film tells the story of Luc Deveraux, a former U.S. Army soldier who was killed in the Vietnam War in 1969, and returned to life following a secret military project called the "Universal Soldier" program. |
2001 | US | Spy Game | Tony Scott | |
2007 | US | American Gangster (film) | Ridley Scott | The film is fictionally based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by detective Richie Roberts. |
2009 | US | Watchmen | Zack Snyder | Some characters participated are Vietnam War veterans. |
2009 | US | X-Men Origins: Wolverine | Gavin Hood | The main character is a Vietnam War veteran. |
2014 | South Korea | Obsessed | Kim Dae-woo | South Korean erotic romance film written and directed by Kim Dae-woo, about a couple having a passionate affair in a military camp under tight surveillance in 1969. |
2017 | US | Kong Skull Island | Jordan Vogt-Roberts | An expedition to Skull Island was made by a US recon team to explore the odd island. |
2017 | US | The Foreigner | Martin Campbell | Ngoc Minh Quan, a former Chinese Vietnam War US special forces operator turned London restaurateur, who looks for revenge after his daughter is killed in a bombing. |
Theatrical films about the Vietnam War MIAs
Year | Country | Title | Director | Events depicted |
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1978 | US | Good Guys Wear Black | Ted Post | Former CIA assassin battles duplicitous US government official. |
1983 | US | Uncommon Valor | Ted Kotcheff | Father organizes a group of Vietnam veterans to go back and rescue his son who is secretly held prisoner in Vietnam |
1984 | US | Missing in Action | Joseph Zito | Vietnam veteran goes back to Vietnam to free secretly held POWs |
1985 | US | Rambo: First Blood Part II | George P. Cosmatos | Vietnam veteran goes back to Vietnam to free secretly held POWs |
Theatrical films about the Indochina refugee crisis
Year | Country | Title | Director | Events depicted |
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1981 | Hong Kong | The Story of Woo Viet | Ann Hui | The story features Woo Viet, who wants to leave his country, Vietnam, behind and start over in the United States. |
1982 | Hong Kong | Boat People | Ann Hui | The Fall of Saigon and its aftermath |
1984 | UK | The Killing Fields (film) | Roland Joffé | The Killing Fields is a 1984 British biographical drama film about the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, which is based on the experiences of two journalists: Cambodian Dith Pran and American Sydney Schanberg. |
1992 | Australia | Turtle Beach (film) | Stephen Wallace | Judith, an Australian photojournalist (Greta Scacchi), leaves her family to cover the story of Vietnamese boat people in a Malaysian refugee camp. There she befriends Minou, a Vietnamese streetwalker (Joan Chen), who has married a diplomat and together they try to bring awareness to the terrible conditions suffered by the people there. |
2001 | US | Green Dragon | Timothy Linh Bui | The experiences of Vietnamese refugees in the United States immediately following the end of the war |
2004 | US | The Beautiful Country | Hans Petter Moland | A Vietnamese boy (Damien Nguyen) goes to the US to search for his father, an American ex-soldier |
2005 | Vietnam | Sống trong sợ hãi (Living in Fear) | Bùi Thạc Chuyên | A Vietnamese farmer is supporting two families after the end of the war - one in the north, which he abandoned after fleeing during the war, and his new family in the south. To get enough money he sets on to re-cultivate a field full of mines. His life and psyche is changing while he removes each mine by himself. |
2007 | US | Journey from the Fall | Ham Tran | Vietnamese experience of post-war reeducation camps and life as refugees |
2014 | France, Belgium, Cambodia | The Gate (2014 film) | Régis Wargnier | The Gate (French: Le Temps des aveux) is a 2014 French-Belgian-Cambodian drama film directed by Régis Wargnier, based on the books by François Bizot. |
2017 | Cambodia, US | First They Killed My Father (film) | Angelina Jolie | First They Killed My Father (Khmer: មុនដំបូងខ្មែរក្រហមសម្លាប់ប៉ារបស់ខ្ញុំ Moun dambaung Khmer Krahm samleab ba robsa khnhom) is a 2017 Cambodian–American Khmer biographical historical thriller film directed by Angelina Jolie and written by Jolie and Loung Ung, based on Ung's memoir of the same name. Set in 1975, the film depicts 7-year-old Ung who is forced to be trained as a child soldier while her siblings are sent to labor camps during the Communist Khmer Rouge regime. |
Television films about the Vietnam War
Year | Country | Title | Director | Events depicted |
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1967 | US | Wings of Fire (film) | David Lowell Rich | Doug Sanborn (Ralph Bellamy) runs a small charter company based at a regional airport. His daughter, Kitty (Suzanne Pleshette), a young female pilot wants to be in the Unlimited class at the air races but her male friends stymie her ambitions. Her former boyfriend Taff Malloy (James Farentino) has recently come back from the US Navy and a stint as a pilot in Vietnam. |
1998 | US | A Bright Shining Lie | Terry George | Experiences of US Lt. Col. John Paul Vann, military adviser to the South Vietnamese. Based on the book by the same name by Neil Sheehan. |
2002 | US | Path to War | John Frankenheimer | The Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of US President Lyndon B. Johnson and his cabinet members. |
2005 | US | Faith of My Fathers | Peter Markle | Experiences of US Navy Lieutenant Commander John McCain (later senator) as a POW. Based on the memoir of the same name. |
2016 | US | All the Way (film) | Jay Roach | All the Way is a 2016 American biographical television drama film based on events of the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson. |
Television films about Vietnam War veterans
Year | Country | Title | Director | Events depicted |
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1969 | US | The Ballad of Andy Crocker | George McCowan | Made for TV film begins with a Vietnam firefight and then deals with a veteran's readjustment problems |
1979 | US | Friendly Fire | David Greene | Based on actual events explores the questionable death of a Vietnam PFC and families quest seeking the truth about shrapnel affliction. |
2001 | Canada, US | Under Heavy Fire | Sidney J. Furie | Reunited veterans visit Vietnam 25 years after the war, flashbacks to their battles |
2003 | US | Word of Honor | Robert Markowitz | A former army officer is charged with war crimes allegedly committed by his unit in Vietnam |
2006 | US, Canada | The Veteran | Sidney J. Furie | Vietnam veteran and state senator returns to Vietnam 30 years after the war, and is secretly probed for information on missing GI |
Documentary films
Year | Country | Title | Director | Events depicted |
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1965 | Canada | The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam | Beryl Fox | |
1967 | France | The Anderson Platoon | Pierre Schoendoerffer | Follows a deployed US infantry platoon in Vietnam. |
1967 | France | Far from Vietnam | Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker and Alain Resnais | |
1968 | US | A Face of War | Eugene S. Jones | Day-to-day activities of active duty Marines. |
1969 | US | In the Year of the Pig | Emile de Antonio | History of the war. |
1970 | US | Street Scenes | Martin Scorsese | Follows two demonstrations against the war, interviews with participants and bystanders. |
1970 | US | The World of Charlie Company | John Laurence | Follows US troops of Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, of the 1st Cavalry Division. |
1971 | US | Vietnam!, Vietnam! | Sherman Beck | A United States Information Agency film, narrated by Charlton Heston, was shot on location in Vietnam in October–December 1968 but not released until 1971. |
1972 | US | Winter Soldier | Follows the Winter Soldier Investigation. | |
1974 | US | Hearts and Minds | Peter Davis | Interviews with Americans and Vietnamese. |
1979 | UK | Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia | David Munro | The war in Cambodia and its aftermath under the rule of the Khmer Rouge. |
1980 | Canada | Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War (TV miniseries) |
Michael Maclear (producer) |
History of the conflict from the First Indochina War to the Fall of Saigon. |
1982 | US | The Uncounted Enemy | George Crile III (producer) |
The film alleges that general William Westmoreland presented false numbers of enemy combatants to the US public. |
1983 | US | Vietnam: A Television History (TV miniseries) |
Based on Karnow's book Vietnam: A History. | |
1987 | US | Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam | Bill Couturié | Based on letters from US soldiers serving in Vietnam. |
1989 | UK | Four Hours in My Lai (Yorkshire Television documentary) |
My Lai Massacre. | |
1990 | US | Berkeley in the Sixties | Mark Kitchell | Anti-war protesters at Berkeley University. |
1995 | UK | Vietnam: The Last Battle | David Munro | Review of the history of Vietnam of the two decades since the end of the war |
1998 | US | Regret to Inform | Barbara Sonneborn | The director, a US war widow, goes to Vietnam to explore the loss of her husband. |
1999 | Vietnam | The Sound of the Violin in My Lai (Tiếng vỹ cầm ở Mỹ Lai) | Tran Van Thuy | My Lai Massacre |
2001 | The Netherlands | First Kill | Coco Schrijber | The psychology of war is explored through interviews with Vietnam veterans. |
2001 | US | Unfinished Symphony: Democracy and Dissent | Bestor Cram, Mike Majoros | Follows a three-day protest against the war in Lexington, Massachusetts over Memorial Day weekend in 1971, staged by newly returned war veterans. |
2001 | US | Investigation of a Flame | Lynne Sachs | Story of the Catonsville Nine, Catholic activists who burned draft files in 1968 to protest against the war. |
2002 | US | Daughter from Danang | Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco | US woman, daughter of US soldier and Vietnamese woman goes to Vietnam to meet her biological relatives. |
2003 | US | The Fog of War | Errol Morris | Interview with Robert S. McNamara, US Secretary of Defense during the war. |
2004 | US | In the Shadow of the Blade | Patrick Fries, Cheryl Fries |
Huey helicopter on cross-US tour reunites veterans and veterans' relatives. |
2004 | US | Stolen Honor | Carlton Sherwood | The film connects the testimony of John Kerry with increased mistreatment of US POWs. |
2004 | US | Going Upriver | George Butler | U.S. Senator John Kerry's military service and his subsequent participation in the anti-war movement. |
2005 | France | Enemy Image | Mark Daniels | Examines the impact of televised war reporting, starting with the relatively unrestricted reporting during the Vietnam War. |
2005 | US | Sir! No Sir! | David Zeiger | Anti-war sentiments within the US armed forces. |
2006 | Australia | The Battle of Long Tan | Damien Lay | 108 young and mostly inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers fight for survival against an overwhelming enemy force of 2,500. |
2007 | US | The Camden 28 | Anthony Giacchino | Follows twenty-eight members of the Catholic Left who were arrested in 1971 for attempting to break into and vandalize a draft board. |
2007 | US | Bomb Harvest | Kim Mordaunt | Aftermath of the bombing of Laos during the war, the problem of large amounts of Unexploded Ordnance in the country. |
2008 | US | Between the Lines | Scott Bass, Ty Ponder | The impact of the war on US surfing culture |
2009 | US | The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers | Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith | About Daniel Ellsberg and his leaking of the Pentagon Papers, a secret US government history of the war. |
2011 | US | Vietnam in HD (TV miniseries) |
Sammy Jackson | Better known as the Vietnam Lost Films is a six part documentary of thirteen Americans confronting their experience of war in Vietnam. |
2012 | US | Into Harm's Way | Jordan Kronick | West Point Class of 1967 and their experiences during college and in the Vietnam War. |
2014 | US | Last Days in Vietnam | Rory Kennedy | About the evacuation of American and South Vietnamese Citizens. |
2017 | US | The Vietnam War | Ken Burns and Lynn Novick | History of the war from the anti-colonial struggle against the French to the exit of the Americans in 1973. |
See also
References
- ^ Louvre, Alf; Walsh, Jeffrey (1988). Tell me lies about Vietnam : cultural battles for the meaning of the war. Open University Press.
- ^ Bradford, Laurence (7 July 2013). "Pop culture dictates the American version of the Vietnam War". Inside Investor. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
- ^ a b Vietnam War: American Cinema After the War, FilmReference.com, retrieved 2009-03-18
- ^ a b c d e f Neale, Stephen (2000). War Films. Psychology Press. pp. 121–124. ISBN 978-0-415-02606-2.
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- ^ Clarke, 2006. pp. 181–192
Further reading
- Anderegg, Michael A. (1991). Inventing Vietnam: The War in Film and Television. Temple University Press. ISBN 0-87722-861-2.
- Clarke, James (2006). War Films. Virgin Books. ISBN 978-0-753-51094-0.
- Dittmar, Linda; Michaud, Gene (1990). From Hanoi to Hollywood: the Vietnam War in American film. Rutgers University Press. ISBN 0-8135-1586-6.
- Hixon, Walter (2000). Historical memory and representations of the Vietnam War. Garland Publishing. ISBN 0-8153-3536-9.
- Taylor, Mark (2003). The Vietnam War in History, Literature, and Film. University of Alabama Press. ISBN 0-8173-1401-6.