24 Films & TV Shows Set In Vietnam During The 1970s
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Kong: Skull Island
Illinois District of Columbia 🇹🇭 Thailand 🇻🇳 Vietnam Pacific Ocean The 1970s The 1940sAll hail the king — Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.
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The Post
New York District of Columbia 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1970s The 1960sTruth be told — 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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X-Men: Days of Future Past
New York 🇫🇷 France 🇷🇺 Russia 🇨🇳 China 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1970s The 2020sTo save the future, they must alter the past — The ultimate X-Men ensemble fights a war for the survival of the species across two time periods as they join forces with their younger selves in an epic battle that must change the past – to save our future.
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Get on Up
Georgia New York Massachusetts 🇻🇳 Vietnam 🇫🇷 France The 1970s The 1980s The 1990s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sThe Funk Don't Quit — A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
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Number 10 Blues Goodbye Saigon
🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1970sDespite the signing of the Paris Peace Accords and the withdrawal of 540,000 U.S. troops in 1973, the America government kept funding South Vietnamese forces and their war against North Vietnam and Viet Cong spread across the country. Against this backdrop, Japanese businessman Toshio Sugimoto (Yusuke Kawazu) enjoys a leisurely existence, buying seafood in the relatively safe climate of Saigon. After accidentally killing a Vietnamese, his entire existence falls apart. Suddenly stripped of all privileges — from no. 1 to no. 10 — as well as having to put order in his love affair with the beautiful club singer Lan (Lan Tanh) and falling into the Saigon underworld, one mistake at a time, Sugimoto goes into hiding. But soon, hiding isn’t enough. He must flee across a war-torn Vietnam, taking his lover Lan and newfound ally Taro (Kenji Isomura), son of an ex-Japanese soldier and a Vietnamese woman, along for the bumpy ride.
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Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States: Specials
🇮🇶 Iraq 🇺🇸 United States of America 🇻🇳 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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Watchmen
New York District of Columbia Mars 🇻🇳 Vietnam 🇦🇶 Antarctica The 1970s The 1980s The 1960s The 1950s The 1940s The 1930sJustice is coming to all of us. No matter what we do. — 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
🇻🇳 Vietnam 🇰🇭 Cambodia The 1970s The 1960sA story of Vietnam. — "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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Sunny
🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1970sWith hopes of reuniting with her husband, who left for the Vietnam War without telling her, a young wife joins a traveling band as the lead singer.
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American Gangster
New York New Jersey North Carolina 🇹🇭 Thailand 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1970s The 1990s The 1960sThere are two sides to the American dream — 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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Daughter from Danang
🇻🇳 Vietnam Tennessee The 1970s The 1990sIn 1975, as the Vietnam War was ending, thousands of orphans and Amerasian children were brought to the United States as part of "Operation Babylift." Daughter from Danang tells the dramatic story of one of these children, Heidi Bub (a.k.a. Mai Thi Hiep), and her Vietnamese mother, Mai Thi Kim, separated at the war's end and reunited 22 years later. Heidi, now living in Tennessee - a married woman with kids - had always dreamt of a joyful reunion. When she ventures to Vietnam to meet her mother, she unknowingly embarks on an emotional pilgrimage that spans decades and distance. Unlike most reunion stories that climax with a cliché happy ending, Daughter from Danang is a real-life drama. Journeying from the Vietnam War to Pulaski, Tennessee and back to Vietnam, Daughter from Danang tensely unfolds as cultural differences and the years of separation take their toll in a riveting film about longing and the personal legacy of war.
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Spy Game
Jiangsu Province 🇩🇪 Germany 🇭🇰 Hong Kong 🇱🇧 Lebanon 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1970s The 1980s The 1990sIt's not how you play the game. It's how the game plays you. — On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal.
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Forrest Gump
Alabama Arizona California Georgia Louisiana New York Virginia District of Columbia 🇨🇳 China 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1950s The 1960s The 1970s The 1980sLife is like a box of chocolates...you never know what you're gonna get. — A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in 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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Natural Causes
🇹🇭 Thailand 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1970sAn American links her mothers death in Bankok to a plot involving Vietnamese refugees.
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Flight of the Intruder
🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1970sThe only thing they can count on is each other. — U.S. Navy pilot Lt. Jake Grafton and his bombardier buddy, Lt. Cmdr. Virgil Cole, are two soldiers embedded in the Vietnam War growing frustrated by the military's constraints on their missions. Despite the best efforts of their commanding officer, Cmdr. Frank Camparelli, to re-engage them, this disillusioned pair decide to take the war effort into their own hands with an explosive battle plan that could well get them court-martialed.
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Born on the Fourth of July
Florida New York Texas 🇲🇽 Mexico 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1960s The 1970sA story of innocence lost and courage found — 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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A Better Tomorrow III: Love and Death in Saigon
🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1970sThe year is 1974. A young Hong Kong Chinese, Mark (Chow Yun-Fat), travels to Saigon to make his fortune. There, he encounters a mysterious femme fatale, the lovely Kit. As he becomes more involved in her various underworld deals, a tragic romance develops. On the eve of the outbreak of war, Kit's past returns to endanger her, and Mark must risk everything for the one true love of his life...
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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam
🇺🇸 United States of America 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1960s The 1970sAddressed to the heart of America. — 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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Eastern Condors
🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1970sA motley group of Chinese prisoners held in the US is sent on a covert mission with the promise of a pardon: to go deep into Vietnam and destroy a secret depot of missiles that the US left behind during the pull-out.
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Missing in Action 2: The Beginning
🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1970s The 1980sChuck Norris is back! A one-man time bomb set to explode! — Prequel to the first Missing In Action, set in the early 1980s it shows the capture of Colonel Braddock during the Vietnam war in the 1970s, and his captivity with other American POWs in a brutal prison camp, and his plans to escape.
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Friendly Fire
🇻🇳 Vietnam Iowa The 1970sIn war, the only thing worse than death is not knowing the truth. — In March 1970, a U.S. Army officer arrived at the Iowa farm of Peg and Gene Mullen and informed them that their son Michael had been killed in Vietnam by "friendly fire." Their determined attempts to learn more about the circumstances of their son's death are the subject of this true account film.
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The Deer Hunter
Pennsylvania 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1960s The 1970sOne of the most important and powerful films of all time! — A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left, Steven married his pregnant girlfriend -- and Michael and Nick were in love with the same woman. But all three are different men upon their return.
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The Choirboys
California 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1970s The 1960sDon't look for these guys in church. — A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.
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Introduction to the Enemy
🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1970sThis film documents the journey of actress Jane Fonda and her husband – future California state senator Tom Hayden – through North and South Viet Nam in 1974. They travel from villages to towns talking with ordinary Vietnamese about their lives and the effects of the war on their lives, families, and communities.
