30 Films & TV Shows Set In Vietnam During The 1960s
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The Last Full Measure
Ohio District of Columbia ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1990s The 1960s The 2000sThe ultimate sacrifice deserves the highest honor. โ 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.
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Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan
๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1960sOutnumbered. Outgunned. Never out of courage โ 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 Tรขn. They are barely a hundred. The enemy is a human wave ready to destroy them.
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Commando Ninja
California ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1980s The 1990s The 1960sJohn Hunter is Vietnam Green Beret Veteran, Half Commando, Half Ninja, whose daughter has been abducted by a secret Ninja Organization, led by a Central-American dictator, who wants to create a new-world order - through time.
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The Post
New York District of Columbia ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1970s The 1960sTruth be told โ A cover-up that spanned four U.S. Presidents pushed the country's first female newspaper publisher and a hard-driving editor to join an unprecedented battle between journalist and government. Inspired by true events.
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Get on Up
Georgia New York Massachusetts ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam ๐ซ๐ท France The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sThe Funk Don't Quit โ A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
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Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States: Specials
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq ๐บ๐ธ United States of America ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1940s The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 2000sOliver Stone's re-examination of under-reported events in American history.
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The Sapphires
๐ป๐ณ Vietnam ๐ฆ๐บ Australia The 1960sFollow your heart. Discover your soul. โ It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when they entertain the US troops in Vietnam as singing group The Sapphires.
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Watchmen
New York District of Columbia Mars ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam ๐ฆ๐ถ Antarctica The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sJustice is coming to all of us. No matter what we do. โ In a gritty and alternate 1985 the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown, but after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer is initiated. The reunited heroes set out to prevent their own destruction, but in doing so uncover a sinister plot that puts all of humanity in grave danger.
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21 and a Wake-Up
๐ป๐ณ Vietnam ๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia The 1970s The 1960sA story of Vietnam. โ "I learn that Chris McIntyre served in Vietnam and that "21 and a Wakeup," set in an Army hospital in the waning days of the war, is based on events that he experienced and heard about." - Roger Ebert
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American Gangster
New York New Jersey North Carolina ๐น๐ญ Thailand ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1970s The 1990s The 1960sThere are two sides to the American dream โ Following the death of his employer and mentor, Bumpy Johnson, Frank Lucas establishes himself as the number one importer of heroin in the Harlem district of Manhattan. He does so by buying heroin directly from the source in South East Asia and he comes up with a unique way of importing the drugs into the United States. Partly based on a true story.
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Why We Fight
๐ฎ๐ถ Iraq New York ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1960s The 1990sIt Is Nowhere Written That The American Empire Goes On Forever โ Is American foreign policy dominated by the idea of military supremacy? Has the military become too important in American life? Jarecki's shrewd and intelligent polemic would seem to give an affirmative answer to each of these questions.
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We Were Soldiers
๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1960s The 1950s400 U.S paratroopers. 4,000 Vietnamese soldiers. 12,000 miles away from home. 1 man led them into battle. โ The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
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Regret to Inform
๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1960s The 1990sIn this film made over ten years, filmmaker Barbara Sonneborn goes on a pilgrimage to the Vietnamese countryside where her husband was killed. She and translator (and fellow war widow) Xuan Ngoc Nguyen explore the meaning of war and loss on a human level. The film weaves interviews with Vietnamese and American widows into a vivid testament to the legacy of war.
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Operation Dumbo Drop
๐น๐ญ Thailand ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1960sA Top-Secret Mission Of Gigantic Proportions! โ Five Green Berets stationed in Vietnam in 1968 grudgingly undertake the mission of a lifetime -- to secretly transport an 8,000-pound elephant through 200 miles of rough jungle terrain. High jinks prevail when Capt. Sam Cahill promises the Montagnard villagers of Dak Nhe that he'll replace their prized elephant in time for an important ritual. But for Capt. T.C. Doyle, the mission becomes a jumbo-sized headache!
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Forrest Gump
Alabama Arizona California Georgia Louisiana New York Virginia District of Columbia ๐จ๐ณ China ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sLife is like a box of chocolates...you never know what you're gonna get. โ A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic eventsโin each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.
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The Scent of Green Papaya
๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1950s The 1960s The 1940sA Vietnamese servant girl, Mui, observes lives within two different Saigon families: the first, a woman textile seller with three boys and a frequently absent husband; the second, a handsome young pianist with his fiancรฉe.
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Universal Soldier
Nevada Arizona Louisiana ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1960sThe future has a bad attitude. โ An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldier's memories, he begins to experience flashbacks that are forcing him to recall his past.
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Born on the Fourth of July
Florida New York Texas ๐ฒ๐ฝ Mexico ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1960s The 1970sA story of innocence lost and courage found โ 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.
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Riverbend
Georgia ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1960sWhen you're right... you fight! โ A black major (Steve James) and his men are on the run from a rigged court martial and hide out in a small Georgia town where a cruel white sheriff is terrorizing the black population. Together with one strong-willed woman they formulate a bold plan to fight for freedom and human rights.
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Off Limits
๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1960sBeing a cop is tough. But in Saigon, 1968, being a cop is crazy. โ McGriff and Albaby are probably doing the worst law enforcement job in the world - they are plain clothes U.S. military policemen on duty in war-time Saigon. However, their job becomes even harder when they start investigating the serial killings of local prostitutes. Their prime suspect is high ranking U.S. Army officer which brings their lives in danger.
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Full Metal Jacket
South Carolina ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1960sVietnam can kill me, but it canโt make me care. โ 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.
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Good Morning, Vietnam
๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1960sTime to rock it from the Delta to the DMZ! โ 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.
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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
๐บ๐ธ United States of America ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1960s The 1970sAddressed to the heart of America. โ Real-life letters written by American soldiers, sailors, airmen, and Marines during the Vietnam War to their families and friends back home. Archive footage of the war and news coverage thereof augment the first-person "narrative" by men and women who were in the war, some of whom did not survive it.
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Platoon
๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1960sThe first casualty of war is innocence. โ 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.
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Apocalypse Now
๐ฐ๐ญ Cambodia ๐ป๐ณ Vietnam The 1960sThis is the end... โ 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.
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