55 Films & TV Shows Set In Vietnam During The 20th Century
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The Protégé
England 🇷🇴 Romania 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1990s The 2020sWherever you run, the past follows... — Rescued as a child by the legendary assassin Moody and trained in the family business, Anna is the world’s most skilled contract killer. When Moody, the man who was like a father to her and taught her everything she needs to know about trust and survival, is brutally killed, Anna vows revenge. As she becomes entangled with an enigmatic killer whose attraction to her goes way beyond cat and mouse, their confrontation turns deadly and the loose ends of a life spent killing will weave themselves ever tighter.
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The Last Full Measure
Ohio District of Columbia 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1990s The 1960s The 2000sThe ultimate sacrifice deserves the highest honor. — 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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Long Shot
New York District of Columbia 🇸🇪 Sweden 🇵🇹 Portugal 🇪🇸 Spain 🇷🇺 Russia 🇵🇭 Philippines 🇻🇳 Vietnam 🇨🇴 Colombia The 2020s The 2010s The 1990sUnlikely but not impossible. — Journalist Fred Flarsky reunites with his childhood crush, Charlotte Field, now one of the most influential women in the world. As she prepares to make a run for the Presidency, Charlotte hires Fred as her speechwriter—much to the dismay of her trusted advisers.
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Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan
🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1960sOutnumbered. Outgunned. Never out of courage — 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 Tân. They are barely a hundred. The enemy is a human wave ready to destroy them.
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Song Lang
🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1980sWhen theatre and real life become one. — Set against a gloriously filmed backdrop of the distinctly jaded charm of mid-90s Saigon, the lives of two men intertwine as they are both bound by traditions and honor. One to his mafia family, the other to the traveling troupe that performs elaborate classic operas. Yet they have much more in common than either wants to admit.
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Commando Ninja
California 🇻🇳 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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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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The Girl from Yesterday
🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1990sA teenage boy causes problems on an everyday basis. He falls in love with a transfer student and becomes close to her, but he keeps thinking about his first love from early childhood that he couldn't confess his feelings to.
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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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The Sapphires
🇻🇳 Vietnam 🇦🇺 Australia The 1960sFollow your heart. Discover your soul. — 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 🇻🇳 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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Why We Fight
🇮🇶 Iraq New York 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1960s The 1990sIt Is Nowhere Written That The American Empire Goes On Forever — 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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The Beautiful Country
🇲🇾 Malaysia 🇻🇳 Vietnam Texas The 1990sAn epic story of hope. — After reuniting with his mother in Ho Chi Minh City, a family tragedy causes Binh to flee from Viet Nam to America. Landing in New York, Binh begins a road trip to Texas, where his American father is said to live.
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The Quiet American
🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1950sA stylish political thriller where love and war collide in Southeast Asia. Set in early 1950s Vietnam, a young American becomes entangled in a dangerous love triangle when he falls for the beautiful mistress of a British journalist. As war is waged around them, these three only sink deeper into a world of drugs, passion, and betrayal where nothing is as it seems.
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We Were Soldiers
🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1960s The 1950s400 U.S paratroopers. 4,000 Vietnamese soldiers. 12,000 miles away from home. 1 man led them into battle. — 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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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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Regret to Inform
🇻🇳 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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