🏷 Discover The Best Vietnam Veteran Movies & TV Shows To Watch Today

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Uncovering the Realities of War: Top Vietnam Veteran Movies and TV Shows

Delve into the complexities of the Vietnam War through the lens of cinema and television. From gritty dramas to thought-provoking documentaries, discover the most impactful and emotionally charged films and shows that shed light on the experiences of Vietnam veterans. Explore the stories of those who fought, the families who waited, and the nation that struggled to heal.

Cast

Tom Hanks

Robin Wright

Gary Sinise

Sally Field

Forrest Gump (1994)

8.5 30.0K votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance

Country: United States of America

Duration: 142 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: 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.

Plot: new year's eve, vietnam veteran, mentally disabled, friendship, usa president, washington dc, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), waitress, ...

Time: vietnam war, 1970s, 1960s

Place: usa, america

The Deer Hunter (1978)

8.0 4.3K votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 183 min.

Audience: R

Story: Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter during the war changes their lives forever.

Plot: vietnam veteran, small town, suicide, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), escape, pennsylvania, usa, saigon, ...

Time: vietnam war

Place: vietnam

No Country for Old Men (2007)

7.9 13.5K votes

Genre: Crime, Thriller, Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 122 min.

Audience: R

Story: Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.

Plot: vietnam veteran, sheriff, trailer park, based on novel or book, hitman, psychopath, drug trafficking, motel, ...

Time: 1980s

Place: texas

Cast

Jeff Bridges

John Goodman

Julianne Moore

Steve Buscemi

The Big Lebowski (1998)

7.8 12.3K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 117 min.

Audience: R

Story: Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.

Style: absurd

Plot: vietnam veteran, white russian, bowling, carpet, nihilism, heart attack, kidnapping, lsd, ...

Cast

Al Pacino

Chris O'Donnell

James Rebhorn

Gabrielle Anwar

Scent of a Woman (1992)

7.8 4.0K votes

Genre: Drama

Country: United States of America

Duration: 156 min.

Audience: R

Story: Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.

Plot: vietnam veteran, new york city, blindness and impaired vision, scholarship, boarding school, tango, thanksgiving, limousine, ...

Place: new england

Cast

Sylvester Stallone

Richard Crenna

Brian Dennehy

Bill McKinney

First Blood (1982)

7.5 7.0K votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Netherlands Antilles

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: R

Story: When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers.

Style: absurd

Plot: prison, guerrilla warfare, dying and death, vietnam veteran, hero, police brutality, sheriff, escape, ...

Time: vietnam war

Place: vietnam

Quarry (2016) TV Show

7.3 195 votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Drama

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 8

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The story of Mac Conway, a Marine who returns home to Memphis from Vietnam in 1972 and finds himself shunned by those he loves and demonized by the public. As he struggles to cope with his experiences at war, Conway is drawn into a network of killing and corruption that spans the length of the Mississippi River.

Plot: corruption, vietnam veteran, mississippi river, based on novel or book, hitman, memphis, tennessee, money, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Mel Gibson

Madeleine Stowe

Greg Kinnear

Sam Elliott

We Were Soldiers (2002)

7.1 2.3K votes

Genre: Action, History, War

Country: Germany, United States of America

Duration: 138 min.

Audience: R

Story: The year is 1965 and America is at war with North Vietnam. Commanding the air cavalry is Lt. Col. Hal Moore (Gibson), a born leader committed to his troops. His target: the Ia Drang Valley, called "The Valley of Death." As Moore prepares for one of the most violent battles in U.S. history, he delivers a stirring promise to his soldiers and their families: "I will leave no man behind...dead or alive. We will all come home together."

Style: intense

Plot: vietnam veteran, hero, army, based on novel or book, steel helmet, missile, based on true story, major, ...

Time: vietnam war, 1960s

Cast

Tim O'Kelly

Boris Karloff

Arthur Peterson

Monte Landis

Targets (1968)

7.1 239 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 90 min.

Audience: R

Story: An aging horror-movie icon's fate intersects with that of a seemingly ordinary young man on a psychotic shooting spree around Los Angeles.

Plot: sniper, vietnam veteran, drive-in theater, murder, serial killer, sniper rifle, los angeles, california, ...

Cast

Sylvester Stallone

Richard Crenna

Charles Napier

Steven Berkoff

Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

6.7 4.4K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: United States of America, Mexico

Duration: 96 min.

Audience: R

Story: John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.

Plot: vietnam veteran, helicopter, government, prisoner, chase, submachine gun, liberation of prisoners, photography, ...

Time: vietnam war

Place: vietnam

Cast

Tom Hiddleston

Samuel L. Jackson

John Goodman

Brie Larson

Kong: Skull Island (2017)

6.6 11.2K votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Fantasy

Country: China, United States of America

Duration: 118 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: Explore the mysterious and dangerous home of the king of the apes as a team of explorers ventures deep inside the treacherous, primordial island.

Plot: vietnam veteran, island, monster, expedition, giant monster, giant spider, creature, spin off, ...

Time: 1970s

Cast

Harrison Ford

Gary Oldman

Glenn Close

Wendy Crewson

Air Force One (1997)

6.5 3.4K votes

Genre: Action, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 124 min.

Audience: R

Story: When Russian neo-nationalists hijack Air Force One, the world's most secure and extraordinary aircraft, the President is faced with a nearly impossible decision to give in to terrorist demands or sacrifice not only the country's dignity, but the lives of his wife and daughter.

Plot: vietnam veteran, journalist, usa president, washington dc, usa, airplane, ultimatum, kazakhstan, ...

Cast

Delroy Lindo

Jonathan Majors

Clarke Peters

Norm Lewis

Da 5 Bloods (2020)

6.4 1.2K votes

Genre: Drama, War

Country: United States of America

Duration: 155 min.

Audience: R

Story: Four African-American Vietnam veterans return to Vietnam. They are in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader and the promise of buried treasure. These heroes battle forces of humanity and nature while confronted by the lasting ravages of the immorality of the Vietnam War.

Plot: vietnam veteran, gold, war veteran, male friendship, land mine

Time: vietnam war

Place: vietnam

Cast

John Marley

Lynn Carlin

Richard Backus

Henderson Forsythe

Dead of Night (1974)

6.3 143 votes

Genre: Horror

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: PG

Story: A young soldier who was thought to be killed in Vietnam returns home and exhibits disturbing behavior, much to the confusion of his family.

Plot: vietnam veteran, suicide, vampire, cemetery, drive-in theater, murder, hitchhiker, zombie, ...

Cast

William Katt

George Wendt

Richard Moll

Kay Lenz

House (1985)

6.2 632 votes

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror

Country: United States of America

Duration: 92 min.

Audience: R

Story: A divorced horror novelist coming to terms with the disappearance of his young son inherits an old mansion home to malevolent supernatural residents.

Plot: vietnam veteran, haunted house, author, new neighbor, novelist, next door neighbor, neighbor neighbor relationship, divorced man, ...

Time: vietnam war

Cast

Patrick McVey

Patricia Joyce

James Woods

Steve Railsback

The Visitors (1972)

6.0 28 votes

Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: R

Story: Bill, Martha and their little child Hal are spending a quiet winter Sunday in their cosy house when they get an unexpected visit from Mike Nickerson and Tony Rodriguez. Mike and Tony are old acquaintances of Bill; a few years back, in Vietnam, they were in the same platoon. They also became opposed parties in a court martial - for a reason that Bill never explained to Martha. What happened in Vietnam, and what is the reason for the presence of Mike and Tony ?

Plot: vietnam veteran, rape, hostage, revenge, veteran

Time: vietnam war

Place: vietnam

Cast

George Clooney

Ewan McGregor

Jeff Bridges

Kevin Spacey

The Men Who Stare at Goats (2009)

6.0 2.4K votes

Genre: Comedy, War

Country: United Kingdom, United States of America

Duration: 94 min.

Audience: R

Story: A reporter in Iraq might just have the story of a lifetime when he meets Lyn Cassady, a guy who claims to be a former member of the U.S. Army's New Earth Army, a unit that employs paranormal powers in their missions.

Plot: vietnam veteran, kuwait, new age, paranoid fantasy, hippie lifestyle, drug use, psychedelic drug

Cast

Chuck Norris

M. Emmet Walsh

David Tress

Lenore Kasdorf

Missing in Action (1984)

5.9 577 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller

Country: United States of America

Duration: 101 min.

Audience: R

Story: American servicemen are still being held captive in Vietnam and it's up to one man to bring them home in this blistering, fast-paced action/adventure starring martial arts superstar Chuck Norris. Following a daring escape from a Vietnamese POW camp, Special Forces Colonel James Braddock (Norris) is on a mission to locate and save remaining MIAs.

Plot: vietnam veteran, martial arts, patriotism, prisoner of war, rescue mission, one man army, special forces, jungle warfare, ...

Time: vietnam war

Cast

Chuck Norris

Aki Aleong

Yehuda Efroni

Floyd Levine

Braddock: Missing in Action III (1988)

5.8 302 votes

Genre: Action, Adventure, War

Country: United States of America, Philippines

Duration: 102 min.

Audience: R

Story: When Colonel James Braddock is told that his Asian wife and 12-year-old son are still alive in Communist Vietnam, he mounts a one-man assault to free them. Armed with the latest high-tech firepower, Braddock fights his way into the heart of the country and ends up battling his way out with several dozen abused Amerasian children in tow! Struggling to keep them alive while outmaneuvering a sadistic Vietnamese officer, Braddock ignites the jungle in a blazing cross-country race for freedom.

Plot: vietnam veteran, martial arts, orphanage, patriotism, rescue mission, abandoned building

Time: vietnam war

Cast

Chuck Norris

Soon-Tek Oh

Steven Williams

Professor Toru Tanaka

Missing in Action 2: The Beginning (1985)

5.8 336 votes

Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller

Country: United States of America, St. Kitts and Nevis

Duration: 95 min.

Audience: R

Story: 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.

Style: absurd, whimsical

Plot: vietnam veteran, martial arts, vietcong, escape, loss of loved one, patriotism, prisoner of war, liberation, ...

Time: vietnam war

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