1. Apocalypse Now (1979) Not only one of the best Vietnam war movies, seems a long drawn out film but one of the best war movies full stop. 2. Full Metal Jacket (1987) One of the best from the late great Stanley Kubrick, has become a real cult classic, following a platoon as they train and finally go into action in Vietnam. This film is also remember for the performance of Lee Ermey as Gny. Sgt. Hartman. 3. Platoon (1986) A 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone and starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe and Charlie Sheen. It is the first film of a trilogy of Vietnam War films by Stone (followed by 1989’s Born on the Fourth of July and 1993’s Heaven & Earth). Stone wrote the story based upon his experiences as a U.S. infantryman in Vietnam to counter the vision of the war portrayed in John Wayne’s The Green Berets. It was the first Hollywood film to be written and directed by a veteran of the Vietnam War 4. The Deer Hunter (1978) An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam war impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania. This can be a very heavy movie. A classic De Niro movie. 5. Born on the Fourth of July (1989) The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought
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