We Were Soldiers (2002)
The film is based on real battles from the Vietnam War. In November 1965, the Vietnam War escalated to the point where the U.S. military was directly involved in the war. The number of U.S. troops stationed in Vietnam is rising. Lieutenant Colonel Moore (Mel Gibson) is ordered to train a group of recruits as real soldiers, and many family members of the army are poured in at the same time, and the soldiers play the dual roles of husband and warrior, and the warm atmosphere is mixed with a hint of uneasiness. In order to alleviate the monotony of military life, the troops held a large party. The time came, and Moore solemnly promised to "bring back every soldier" at the ceremony.
Moore and his troops were parachuted into a river valley near Cambodia, where the North Vietnamese Army's heavy troops were located, and the weak american troops were heavily encircled, suffering heavy casualties, and finally the battle began to stalemate with the help of artillery and helicopters. The next day, the battle advanced to the hills but still could not break through the encirclement, Moore sought air help, and because the two sides were too close, American petrol bombs injured some ground troops. Photojournalist Joe (Barry Pepper) chronicles the brutal scenes of the battle. On the third day, the U.S. army was preparing for a decisive close combat, when air support was in place and the Vietnamese army was completely annihilated.
Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)
In the 1965 Vietnam War in Saigon, the lifeless military radio station suddenly became energized by the arrival of a new DJ, Adrian Krolauer (Robin Williams). Adrian hosts the morning radio show every day in a witty style, with humor and humor. His program was warmly welcomed by the soldiers. Later, he also went deep into the Vietnamese folk and gradually fell in love with the country. However, his remarks on the show that contradicted military propaganda led to Adrian's fate of being ousted.
Directed by renowned Oscar-winning director Barry Levenson, the film is based on a radio host's personal experience in Vietnam that year. The film reflects the brutal war of the Vietnam War in the form of a light comedy with black humor. The film also uses a number of classic pop songs of the 1960s, which evokes deep resonance and nostalgia from the audience. Robin Williams was nominated for Best Actor at the 60th Academy Awards in 1988 and Best Actor in the Musical Comedy category at the 45th Golden Globe Awards in 1988.
Rescue Dawn (2006)
Born in Germany, Dieter Dangler (Christian Bell) has dreamed of flying an airplane into the sky since childhood. Growing up, he immigrated to the United States with his family, joined the army and became a real pilot. Dieter then joined the navy in the Vietnamese battlefield. On the way to the mission, Dieter's plane was unfortunately shot down by ground artillery fire from the Vietnamese army. Luckily escaped death, he was eventually captured by the enemy and tortured. Dieter was taken to a prisoner-of-war camp in Laos, where several U.S. troops were accompanied. Guarding the inhuman treatment of the enemy, Dieter is secretly determined to escape before he can sit still, but his companions Gene (Jeremy Davis), Doon (Steve Zin), etc. around them do not think so, and they do not have much confidence. After some persuasion, Dieter carefully planned to escape from prison when the rainy season came. They have to face endless jungles, hunger, beasts, and Vietnamese who don't know where they are...
Vietnam War Trauma Casualties of War (1989)
Set against the backdrop of the Vietnam War, the film portrays and exposes the brutal crimes of the US military in the war, and also expresses the choreographer's hatred of war and his cherishing and calling for peace.
Allison is a new soldier in the Vietnamese battlefield and has a passion for dedication to the country. Accidentally ambushed by the Vietnamese army during an operation, he was saved by his colleague Ma Su. During a long-range reconnaissance mission, Ma Su and others forcibly robbed Vietnamese girls to join the army to vent their bestiality. As Alisson watched the Vietnamese maiden being ravaged to death, the righteous man began to be disappointed in his fellow citizens, so he disregarded his own safety and exposed the crimes of his colleagues to the world...
Tigerland (2000)

As soon as Lorenbas was released from the confinement cell, he was sent to fight in Vietnam. But the maverick Bass was not only ostracized by his comrades, but also suppressed by his commanders at every turn. When they arrived at tiger island before the battlefield for training, Bass used his unique leadership charm to unite everyone and bring unexpected results...
The film recreates how American soldiers must undergo cruel training on tiger island in vietnam before they enter the war in Vietnam, and through the narrator's memory, they recount how their close friends used their wisdom and perseverance to get rid of abnormal military life, influencing and shocking all the brothers in Lianshang.
Full Metal Jacket (1987)
During the Vietnam War, the U.S. military recruited heavily. A large number of young people were conscripted into the army and received "cruel" training in the new barracks. The "fool" Bill has an underdeveloped motor nerve and often makes mistakes and punishes everyone together. The "Joker" (Matthew Modine) is ordered to help Bill, but Bill still makes mistakes and involves others. Everyone couldn't bear to beat him up, and Bill became delirious, shooting the instructor on the eve of the new barracks graduation and swallowing a gun to kill himself.
The Joker was then assigned to the Army News Group. In the interview, he saw that his companions at that time had become numb and cruel. Once, when the "Joker" was on a mission with the "Cowboy", he was ambushed by Viet Cong snipers, and the "Cowboy" was unfortunately shot and killed. After some searching, the crowd wounded the sniper. The "Joker" discovers that the sniper is actually a young girl. Someone proposed to leave her struggling to die, and the "Joker" pulled the trigger amid the girl's pleas to "kill me".
Apocalypse Now (1979)
At the end of the Vietnam War, U.S. Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) is ordered to travel up the Mekong River in search of Coates (Marlon Brando), who has broken away from the U.S. military and established his kingdom in Cambodia, and bring him back or kill him. Professor Coates was once a hero of the U.S. military in the Vietnam War, and his achievements were outstanding. Suddenly, however, one day, he disappeared. Subsequently, intelligence pointed out that he had established his own kingdom in Cambodia, his own army, specifically against the U.S. army.
Willard and several soldiers went up the river, and on the way they witnessed all kinds of atrocities, killings, and witnessed the distortion of the spirit of both American soldiers and locals in the long war, and all kinds of abnormal behavior, willard felt greatly shocked.
Willard was eventually captured by the locals in the kingdom of Coates, Cambodia, and met Coates. However, Coates wanted to die and asked Willard to blow it to the ground...
The Deer Hunter (1978)
During the Vietnam War, three of Clayton's five best friends who regularly hunt wild deer together, Nick (Christopher Walken), Stephen (John Savage), and Michael (Robert De Niro), are on their way to the front. On the eve of leaving, Stephen married another friend and girlfriend, Angela, and the wedding was their farewell party.
Three young men are captured by the Vietnamese on the battlefield, the cruel Vietnamese forces force them to play the game of "Russian roulette", and Michael takes the opportunity to grab the guns of the Vietnamese soldiers. The three escaped, but were separated in the process. Michael and Steven eventually returned to the United States, but Stephen was permanently crippled and living in a nursing home unwilling to go home and drag his family down. On the eve of the end of the Vietnam War, Michael learns from Stephen that he often receives anonymous remittances from Saigon, and Michael concludes that it is Nick. In order to find his good brother, Michael decided to venture into Vietnam again.
Oliver Stone's Vietnam War trilogy
Platoon in the Field (1986)
Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Heaven & Earth (1993)
Oliver traveled to Vietnam twice, the first time after a year at Yale University before the outbreak of the Vietnam War, and Oliver went to Vietnam for a year as a village teacher. Later, he returned to China via Mexico. Soon after, in 1967, he came to Vietnam because of the war, and two completely different experiences gave him his own unique understanding of Vietnam, and his later "Vietnam War Trilogy" became a huge production that was difficult for others to copy and surpass.
It tells the story of Taylor (Charlie Sheen), an American college student during the Vietnam War, who travels to the Vietnam front to perform military service and is assigned to an infantry unit. There are two men in the army who have always influenced him a lot – Elias (William Dafoe) and Barnes (Tom Berenger). The two of them have very different views on war, the former can't bear to kill innocents, while the latter is murderous, and Taylor is very confused, who is right in the end.
Barnes unleashed a brutal massacre that turned entire villages in Vietnam into rivers of blood. Elias tried to persuade his friend not to be so cruel, but the relationship between the two was broken. Barnes was more suspicious of Elias's small report to his superiors, and the friendship turned to jealousy. So, in a jungle war, he carried everyone behind his back and pulled the trigger on Elias.
Taylor saw all this, and he finally had the answer in his heart.
It tells the story of Lang (Tom Cruise), a competitive boy who has been a competitive boy since childhood, and longs for a manly life. The young Lang was completely conquered by the president's provocative Vietnam War speech, and an impulse to sacrifice for the country gradually grew in Lang's heart. The defeat of a wrestling match made him, who has always been strong, resolutely bid farewell to his lover Donna and college life, and embarked on the road to join the army and participate in the war.
However, Lang, who came to Vietnam, did not find the long-awaited heroism here, but witnessed a tragedy against humanity. Lang's friend Wilson also died in a melee in Lang's bullets, and soon after Lang was paralyzed and sent back to the United States.
Lang, who is in a wheelchair, still clings to his faith in the war waged by the United States, but after his girlfriend Donna re-encounters Lang, she bitterly believes that Lang's tragedies are all the fault of the war. The nightmare haunts Lang, who goes to pay homage to his comrade Wilson, and in the cry of anti-war, Lang finally awakens.
It tells the story of a Vietnamese girl, Li Li (Hiep Thi Le), who lives happily despite her family's poverty. With the outbreak of the Vietnam War, her disaster will also come.
During the Vietnam War, Le Li was captured by government forces for supporting the Viet Cong guerrillas and experienced inhuman treatment. Her mother (Chen Chong) bribes someone in the government to get out, but at this time she is also considered by the Viet Cong to betray the guerrillas, and she is raped. Her mother had to take her to work in a rich man's house, and she fell in love with the man and became pregnant with a child.
They were driven away by the hostess and turned to her sister, who was a prostitute, but she really did not like her sister's style, and finally chose to leave, live alone, and left with children.
At that time, many women became prostitutes in order to make more money. But she still insisted that she could not live a depraved life. Until Dawn meets American soldier Steve (Tommy Lee Jones), Steve falls in love with her at first sight, and Dawn is eventually touched by Steve's true feelings. After marriage they had two sons. After the family returned to the United States, due to different values, Li Li and Steve had a conflict, and Steve could not stand the mental pressure and committed suicide.
Years later, The happy Life of Li Li returned to Vietnam again with his three sons, but it was no longer human...
Forrest Gump (1994)
Forrest Gump (Tom Hanks) was born in a small, isolated town in Alabama, southern Alabama, shortly after World War II, where he was born mentally handicapped and had an IQ of only 75, yet his mother was a strong woman who often encouraged Forrest Gump to "be a fool and a fool" and asked him to be self-reliant.
Forrest Gump goes to school like a normal child and meets jenny (Robin Wright Pan), a lifelong friend and beloved, and under the love of Jenny and her mother, Forrest Gump begins a lifelong non-stop running with the "scud legs" given by God.
Forrest Gump became a football superstar, a Hero of the Vietnam War, a table tennis diplomatic ambassador, and a billionaire, but he never forgot Jenny, and several hasty reunions and partings deepened Forrest Gump's thoughts.
One day, Forrest Gump receives a letter from Jenny and they finally want to meet again...
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