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2) R-point
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Language
English
Description
Korean soldiers searching for a missing platoon in 1972 Vietnam end up encountering forces that basic training never prepared them for. Giving new meaning to the phrase "the horrors of war," R-point exists at the goose-flesh-inducing intersection of Apocalypse now and The ring.
3) Platoon
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment Inc
Edition
Widescreen; Special edition.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Follows young Chris Taylor who arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that his worst enemies are not just the Viet Cong, but gnawing fear, physical exhaustion, and the anger growing within himself.
Publisher
Columbia Pictures
Language
English
Description
America in the turbulent late-1960s, a time when battle lines were being drawn at home and abroad. When young dockworker Jude (Jim Sturgess) leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in America, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy (Evan Rachel Wood), a rich but sheltered American girl who joins the growing anti-war movement in New York's Greenwich Village. As the body count in Vietnam...
6) Forrest Gump
Language
English
Formats
Description
Forrest Gump is a low-intelligence man who has good intentions. He struggles through childhood with his best and only friend Jenny. His mama teaches him the ways of life and leaves him to choose his destiny. Forrest joins the army and heads off to Vietnam where he becomes friends with Dan and Bubba. He wins medals, starts a table tennis craze, creates a famous shrimp fishing fleet, inspires people to jog, create the smiley, writes bumper stickers...
8) Platoon
Publisher
20th Century Fox
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
The story of innocence lost in the war torn jungles of Vietnam as conflict between members of a single platoon unfolds.
Publisher
Screen Media Films
Language
English
Description
After one of the War's most brutal battles is waged, Captain Ramsey, the officer in charge of the campaign, is falsely accused of providing incorrect bombing coordinates, causing the senseless deaths of the men under his command. With all the odds against him, Ramsey now faces the battle of his life in this story about bravery, loyalty, and honor.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Edition
Special edition ; widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Imported by the Army for an early morning radio show in Vietnam, disc jockey Adrian Cronauer blasts the formerly staid, sanitized airwaves with a constant barrage of rapid-fire humor and the hottest hits from back home. The G.I.'s love him, but the brass is up in arms.
12) The deer hunter
Publisher
Universal Studios
Edition
Widescreen edition.
Language
English
Description
Cimino's epic film about friendship chronicles the lives of three steelworkers and their friends, whose lives are irrevocably changed by a tour of duty in Vietnam. The film is renowned for the Russian roulette scenes.
13) Heaven & earth
Series
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
The true story of a man who fought, a woman who endured, and a love caught up in the war in Vietnam.
14) The Green Berets
Series
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
They were crack troops skilled in the techniques of unconditional warfare, the soldiers of the Special Forces-- and the focus of Hollywood's first feature film about the Vietnam War.
15) Rescue dawn
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Based on the true story of U.S. fighter pilot Dieter Dengler, who escapes death after being shot down over one of the most intense front lines in the Vietnam War. He is then taken captive by the Vietnamese Army and is forced to endure a harrowing stint in a Vietnamese prison camp, before he and a small band of his fellow captives stage a death-defying escape.
Publisher
Pure Flix
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
With the Vietnam War raging in 1969, two young fathers report for duty: a man of great faith and a doubtful cynic. A quarter-century later, their sons, Wayne and John Paul, meet as strangers. Guided by handwritten letters from their fathers from the battlefield, they embark on an unforgettable journey to The Wall -the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. Along the way, they discover the devastation of war cannot break the love of a father...
18) Hamburger Hill
Publisher
Lionsgate
Edition
Widescreen version, twentieth anniversary edition.
Language
English
Description
For ten days, the American soldiers of Bravo Company fight in Vietnam to take over Hill 937, also known as Hamburger Hill.
19) Platoon
Publisher
Metro Goldwyn Mayer Studios Inc
Edition
Widescreen.
Language
English
Description
Platoon is the story of every soldier whose innocence was lost in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam. Chris Taylor arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that his worst enemies are not just the Viet Cong, but gnawing fear, physical exhaustion and the anger growing within himself.
20) The Sapphires
Publisher
Anchor Bay Entertainment
Edition
Widescreen version.
Language
English
Description
Inspired by a true story, it's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship and war when their all girl group The Sapphires entertain the US troops in Vietnam.
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