94 Films & TV Shows Set In Vietnam
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The Exterminator
New York 🇻🇳 VietnamA one man army. A new kind of soldier in a new kind of war. — When a man's best friend is killed on the streets of New York, he transforms into a violent killer, turning New York into a war zone.
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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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Apocalypse Now
🇰🇭 Cambodia 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1960sThis is the end... — 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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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 Boys in Company C
California 🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1960sTo keep their sanity in an insane war, they had to be crazy. — Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander, the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they purposely lose a soccer game against a South Vietnamese team, they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind the lines.
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Go Tell the Spartans
🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1960sWe're getting strafed, shelled, bombed, and blasted. And it isn't even our damned war! — Go Tell the Spartans is a 1978 American war film based on Daniel Ford's 1967 novel "Incident at Muc Wa." It tells the story about U.S. Army military advisers during the early part of the Vietnam War. Led my Major Asa Barker, these advisers and their South Vietnamese counterparts defend the village of Muc Wa against multiple attacks by Viet-Cong guerrillas.
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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.
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The Green Berets
🇻🇳 Vietnam North CarolinaA special force in a special kind of hell! — Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for two missions in South Vietnam. The first is to strengthen a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy. The second is to kidnap a North Vietnamese General.
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Short Subject
🇻🇳 VietnamShort Subject [commonly known as Mickey Mouse in Vietnam] is a 16mm underground animated short film. Mickey Mouse enlists with the army and ships off to Vietnam.
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To the Shores of Hell
🇻🇳 VietnamWhen the fighting starts, the Marines are there! — A Marine officer leads a rescue mission through the Vietnamese jungle to rescue his brother, a doctor who has been taken prisoner by the Viet Cong.
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Operation C.I.A.
🇻🇳 VietnamOur C.I.A. man in Saigon ... The hottest spot on Earth! — A young CIA agent is assigned to Saigon to stop a planned political assassination.
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China Gate
🇻🇳 Vietnam The 1950sAn American dynamiter love-locked in war-locked China! — Near the end of the French phase of the Vietnam War, a group of mercenaries are recruited to travel through enemy territory to the Chinese border.
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Flame Over Vietnam
🇻🇳 VietnamA nun comes to missions during the war in China and then friend of refugee children becomes. One day, a dealer is injured and led him to the mission, where he falls for the nun.
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Rogues' Regiment
🇻🇳 VietnamLast outpost of adventure ! Where men leave to fight and fight to leave ! — A post World War 2, US Army agent is assigned to join the Foreign Legion in search of high ranking Nazi war criminal who may have also enlisted.
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Saigon
🇻🇳 VietnamAfter World War II Larry learns that his flying buddy Mike will only live a short time despite the efforts of the doctors. He takes on a profitable flying job for profiteers Maris to finance a good time for his buddy. As the plane takes off he shoves Maris' secretary Susan on board. When Mike falls for her, Larry tells her to play along for Mike's sake. She, of course, falls for Larry.
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Lady of the Tropics
🇻🇳 VietnamHedy Lamarr set the world aflame with her beauty in "Algiers" ! Now you see her in the arms of a dashing Bob Taylor ! — Playboy Bill Carey woos a half-caste beauty in French Indochina, but her second-class legal status makes a formidable barrier.
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Red Dust
🇻🇳 VietnamShe fought for her mate with a tigress' fury… — Dennis, owner of a rubber plantation in Cochinchina, is involved with Vantine, who left Saigon to evade the police; but when his new surveyor, Gary, arrives along with his refined but sensual wife, Barbara, Dennis gets infatuated by her.