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In the 1980s, a popular genre of Vietnam-related films was revenge fantasies that featured a Vietnam veteran or veterans returning to Vietnam to vanquish the Vietnamese, of which the most popular was the 1985 film Rambo: First Blood Part II. [10] The American historian John Hellman noted that such revenge fantasies were an American version of the stab-in-the-back myth (that Germany actually ...
Films about the Vietnam War (1955–1975) and/or its aftermath.
1964. A Yank in Viet-Nam (Year of the Tiger) Marshall Thompson. Marshall Thompson, Kiều Chinh, Mario Barri, Enrique Magalona. English Feature Film. It was filmed entirely in South Vietnam during the Vietnam War. 1965. Le ciel, la terre (The Sky, The Earth) Joris Ivens.
United States Marine Corps Recruit Training was also depicted in Jack Webb 's The D.I. and Stanley Kubrick 's Full Metal Jacket that led to more enlistments to the Corps. Most recently, the Gulf and Iraq wars have become the subject of controversial films such as Jarhead and Generation Kill .
1980s war drama films (1 C, ... The Movie; Troma's War; Tumbledown; Twice Born (1983 film) U. The Unknown Soldier (1985 film) V. Vietnam War Story II; Vijeta (1982 ...
Platoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Keith David, Kevin Dillon, John C. McGinley, Forest Whitaker, and Johnny Depp. It is the first film of a trilogy of Vietnam War films directed by Stone, followed by Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Heaven & Earth (1993). The film, based on Stone's experience from ...
Casualties of War is a 1989 American war drama film directed by Brian De Palma and written by David Rabe, based primarily on an article written by Daniel Lang for The New Yorker in 1969, which was later published as a book. [3] The film stars Michael J. Fox and Sean Penn and is based on the events of the 1966 incident on Hill 192 during the Vietnam War, in which a Vietnamese woman was ...
Uncommon Valor is a 1983 American action war film directed by Ted Kotcheff and starring: Gene Hackman, Fred Ward, Reb Brown, Randall "Tex" Cobb, Robert Stack, Patrick Swayze, Harold Sylvester and Tim Thomerson. Hackman plays a former U.S. Marine colonel, who puts together a rag-tag team to rescue his son, who he believes is among those still held in Laos after the Vietnam War .