Vietnam War
"vietnam war" Movies and TV Shows
#1
The A-Team
Synopsis:
A fictional group of ex-United States Army Special Forces personnel work as soldiers of fortune while on the run from the Army after being branded as war criminals for a "crime they didn't commit".
Starring:
Mr. T,
Dwight Schultz,
George Peppard
Plot:
crime fighter,
framed,
special forces,
ex soldier,
escaped prisoner,
gmc vandura,
mercenary,
van,
fugitive,
commando
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#2
Woodstock
Synopsis:
An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation through cleanup, with historic access to insiders, blistering concert footage, and portraits of the concertgoers; negative and positive aspects are shown, from drug use by performers to naked fans sliding in the mud, from the collapse of the fences by the unexpected hordes to the surreal arrival of…
Starring:
Roger Daltrey,
Pete Townshend,
John Entwistle
Plot:
drugs,
woodstock,
music festival,
1960s,
year 1969,
rock festival,
vietnam era,
anti war,
outdoor concert,
concert film
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#3
We Were Soldiers
Synopsis:
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.
Starring:
Clark Gregg,
Chris Klein,
Jsu Garcia
Plot:
battle,
soldier,
vietnam war,
helicopter,
reporter,
based on true story,
french soldier,
french military,
wound,
battalion
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#4
Universal Soldier
Synopsis:
An American soldier who had been killed during the Vietnam War is revived 25 years later by the military as a semi-android, UniSols, a high-tech soldier of the future. After the failure of the initiative to erase all the soldier's memories, he begins to experience flashbacks that are forcing him to recall his past.
Starring:
Jean-Claude Van Damme,
Jerry Orbach,
Dolph Lundgren
Plot:
soldier,
reporter,
scientist,
super soldier,
top secret,
female reporter,
vietnam war,
severed ear,
flashback,
vietnam
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#5
The Dreamers
Synopsis:
When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.
Starring:
Eva Green,
Michael Pitt,
Jean-Pierre Léaud
#6
The Deer Hunter
Synopsis:
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.
Starring:
Robert De Niro,
John Savage,
Christopher Walken
#7
Taxi Driver
Synopsis:
A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feed his urge for violent action.
Starring:
Robert De Niro,
Albert Brooks,
Jodie Foster
#8
Spy Game
Synopsis:
On the day of his retirement, a veteran CIA agent learns that his former protégé has been arrested in China, is sentenced to die the next morning in Beijing, and that the CIA is considering letting that happen to avoid an international scandal.
Starring:
Brad Pitt,
Catherine McCormack,
Robert Redford
#9
Platoon
Synopsis:
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
Starring:
Keith David,
Johnny Depp,
Willem Dafoe
#10
Pierrot le Fou
Synopsis:
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
Starring:
Anna Karina,
Jean-Paul Belmondo,
Samuel Fuller
Plot:
on the run,
smuggling,
mediterranean sea,
vietnam war,
party,
money,
beach,
babysitter,
nouvelle vague,
french new wave
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#11
Masculin Féminin
Synopsis:
Paul, a young idealist trying to figure out what he wants to do with his life, takes a job interviewing people for a marketing research firm. He moves in with aspiring pop singer Madeleine. Paul, however, is disillusioned by the growing commercialism in society, while Madeleine just wants to be successful. The story is told in a series of 15 unrelated vignettes.
Starring:
Jean-Pierre Léaud,
Henri Attal,
Brigitte Bardot
Plot:
france,
french new wave,
nouvelle vague,
1960s,
disillusionment,
timeframe 1960s,
singer,
friend,
french,
politics
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#12
JFK
Synopsis:
Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.
Starring:
Gary Oldman,
Tommy Lee Jones,
Michael Rooker
#13
Jacob's Ladder
Synopsis:
After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer rapidly falls apart as the world and people around him morph and twist into disturbing images. His girlfriend, Jezzie, and ex-wife, Sarah, try to help, but to little avail. Even Singer's chiropractor friend, Louis, fails to reach him as he descends int…
Starring:
Jason Alexander,
Pruitt Taylor Vince,
Ving Rhames
Plot:
soldier,
vietnam,
new york,
delusion,
conspiracy,
memory,
hallucination,
death of child,
death,
hell
...
#14
if....
Synopsis:
In an English boys' boarding school, social hierarchy reigns supreme and power remains in the hands of distanced and ineffectual teachers and callously vicious prefects in the Upper Sixth. But three Lower Sixth students, leader Mick Travis, Wallace and Johnny decide on a shocking course of action to redress the balance of privilege once and for all.
Starring:
Malcolm McDowell,
David Wood,
Richard Warwick
Plot:
student rebellion,
boys' school,
hate,
tradition,
bully,
revolution,
social satire,
violence,
humiliation,
homosexuality
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#15
Good Morning, Vietnam
Synopsis:
Radio funny man Adrian Cronauer is sent to Vietnam to bring a little comedy back into the lives of the soldiers. After setting up shop, Cronauer delights the G.I.s but shocks his superior officer, Sergeant Major Dickerson, with his irreverent take on the war. While Dickerson attempts to censor Cronauer's broadcasts, Cronauer pursues a relationship with a Vietnamese girl named Trinh, who shows him…
Starring:
Noble Willingham,
Robin Williams,
Forest Whitaker
#16
Girl, Interrupted
Synopsis:
Set in the changing world of the late 1960s, Susanna Kaysen's prescribed "short rest" from a psychiatrist she had met only once becomes a strange, unknown journey into Alice's Wonderland, where she struggles with the thin line between normal and crazy. Susanna soon realizes how hard it is to get out once she has been committed, and she ultimately has to choose between the world of people who belo…
Starring:
Brittany Murphy,
Winona Ryder,
Jared Leto
#17
Dazed and Confused
Synopsis:
The adventures of a group of Texas teens on their last day of school in 1976, centering on student Randall Floyd, who moves easily among stoners, jocks and geeks. Floyd is a star athlete, but he also likes smoking weed, which presents a conundrum when his football coach demands he sign a "no drugs" pledge.
Starring:
Rory Cochrane,
Sasha Jenson,
Milla Jovovich
Plot:
hazing,
high school,
last day of school,
student,
texas,
year 1976,
coming of age,
football,
pledge,
party
...
#18
Born on the Fourth of July
Synopsis:
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Starring:
Mark Moses,
Vivica A. Fox,
Tom Cruise
Plot:
drunkenness,
desert,
bar,
1970s,
1950s,
1960s,
religious mother,
crying,
crying man,
vietnam war veteran
...
#19
Bad Santa
Synopsis:
A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid.
Starring:
Octavia Spencer,
Billy Bob Thornton,
John Ritter
Plot:
christmas,
christmas eve,
heaving bosom,
intercourse,
stripper,
strip club,
stripper pole,
woman on top,
breasts,
nudity
...
#20
Apocalypse Now
Synopsis:
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.
Starring:
Laurence Fishburne,
Harrison Ford,
Martin Sheen
Plot:
vietnam,
vietnam war,
jungle,
insanity,
secret mission,
anti war,
u.s. army,
severed head,
army,
cambodia
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