Top Vietnam War Movies – have you seen them all?

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 for.

6. Rescue Dawn (2006)
Christian Bale plays a US fighter Pilot who is shot down over Vietnam and attempts an escape. Based on a true story. Bale is excellent, a suprisingly little known movie that is well worth checking out.

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