Top Ten Best Vietnam War Movies
Dear America - Letters Home from Vietnam (1988)
Vietnam War Movie #1
Dear America - Letters Home from Vietnam
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All the confusion, pain, despair, and even hope of the men and women who served in Vietnam is captured in Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam. Read by dozens of actors such as Harvey Keitel, Matt Dillon, and Kathleen Turner, these letters show a more human story of the war than we see in most media outlets and reveal real people in real situations trying to explain or understand. The footage, some newsreel, some shot by the servicemen and servicewomen, reveals a tension between the soldiers' actual experiences and the presentation their loved ones received from television. The soundtrack weaves the songs of the 1960s with the readings to create a compelling aural snapshot of the time, which complements the video exceptionally well. While it's not a "feel-good" movie, the viewer does get a sense of the indestructibility of human dreams. --Rob Lightner
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Journey From the Fall (2005)
Vietnam Movie #2
Journey From the Fall
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Directed and written by Ham Tran, "Journey from the Fall," is a very emotional film. The films narrative is based on fictional characters, but in a sense these characters are representative of the millions of South Vietnamese who were displaced, forced to leave their country, or sent to re-education camps after the fall of Saigon. The film reminded me in many ways of "The Killing Fields" starring the late Haing S. Ngor. And while "The Killing Fields" dealt with Cambodia and the Khmer Rouge, it has much in common with the film "Journey from the Fall," in that it deals with the aftermath of Americas absence from Southeast Asia, and what befell those who were left behind. In this particular film, the director weaves three main narratives into the film. (excerpt of a customer review on amazon.com Ernest Jagger)
Journey From the Fall
Vietnam War Movie #2
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Return with Honor (1999)
Vietnam Movie #3
Return With Honor: The American Experience
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Men who piloted the hottest fighter planes in the world found themselves suddenly transformed from hotshots to humiliated prisoners during the Vietnam War. The story of how American prisoners survived in North Vietnam's notorious prison camps is dramatically told in this documentary, an installment of the American Experience series on PBS. The men, who survived appalling treatment, relate their experiences, and vintage footage, including propaganda films shot by their captors, portrays what they endured. A former POW describes how he was coached before being put on public display, yet he spelled out the word "torture" in Morse code by blinking his eyes, a defiant action that can clearly be seen in footage that the North Vietnamese provided to the world's media. Another former prisoner, who somehow survived massive injuries despite being denied medical care, describes how he had to lie on the concrete floor of his cell for nearly a year, just trying to get his arms and legs to function again. These inspirational stories lead up to an emotional climax as the prisoners, including Arizona Senator John McCain, describe what it was like to be freed after their long captivity. This is a deeply moving and inspiring story told by men who overcame great depths of human suffering. --Robert J. McNamara
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Vietnam War With Walter Cronkite
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Vietnam War With Walter Cronkite
Amazon Price: $31.49 (as of 11/11/2009)
For decades, the war in Vietnam was the central drama on the stage of Southeast Asia. It was an intensely publicized war, the first television war that came roaring into the living rooms of America every night. Walter Cronkite tells the story of the long and divisive conflict as seen through the eyes of CBS News. Dan Rather, Morley Safer and Ed Bradley report the stories of American courage, failed programs, an elusive enemy and ultimately an end to a tragic war. It is all graphically shown in these superb CBS documentaries which tell the story of the most divisive war in American history and its effect on those who fought it.
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American Experience: Two Days in October (2005)
Vietnam Movie #5
American Experience: Two Days in October
Amazon Price: $26.99 (as of 11/11/2009)
The film is based on David Maraniss' THEY MARCHED INTO SUNLIGHT, which tells the same stories, and a great many others, in far more depth. But given the constraints of a 90-minute video presentation, TWO DAYS IN OCTOBER is outstanding. With its use of vintage TV clips juxtaposed with modern-day interviews of the participants, it creates immediacy at the same time it gives the witnesses a chance to reflect on events decades past. I looked hard for bias, and didn't find any-although it's clear the film is a Rohrschach ink blot test. What you see in it depends on what you bring to it. (Excerpt of a comment by amazon.com customer, Carl Hoffman.)
American Experience: Two Days in October
Vietnam War Movie #5
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We Were Soldiers
Vietnam Movie # 6
We Were Soldiers
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Based on the book by Lt. Col. Harold Moore (ret.) and journalist Joseph Galloway, We Were Soldiers offers a dignified reminder that the Vietnam War yielded its own crop of American heroes. Departing from Hollywood's typically cynical treatment of the war, writer-director Randall Wallace focuses on the first engagement of American soldiers with the North Vietnamese enemy in November 1965. Moore (played with colorful nuance by Mel Gibson) and nearly 400 inexperienced troopers from the U.S. Air Cavalry were surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese Army soldiers, and the film re-creates this brutal firefight with graphic authenticity, while telling the parallel story of grieving army wives back home
We Were Soldiers
Vietnam War Movie #6
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sittonbull wrote...
Movies... I love 'em. I grew up watching WW11 movies and westerns and used to (of course) fantasize as the hero and play them out with my friends, but my dad who was a Tank CO in WW11 would always, as persuasively as possible, try to make us understand that hollywood and reality are usually nowhere close to being alike. I later discovered he was right (as he so often was)! "We Were Soldiers Once... " (the book by LTC Hal Moore) is a "gut wrenching" read, but it is one of the finest books ever written on Vietnam and the US's first "large scale"battle of the Ia Drang Valley. The movie is "gut wrenching" also... and I love Mel Gibson, but again hollywood Vs reality leaves me to recommend that seeing the movie is entertaining, but read the book! Am going to have to rent "Shooting Grunts" which is actual footage and should be as realistic as you can get without being there. Good Lens!
Posted June 25, 2009
Treasures-By-Brenda wrote...
In line with the other movies in this top ten, this movie is based on real events and people. Having grown up with Apocalypse Now and and other fiction movies portarying disgruntled troops it was refreshing to watch a movie where the soldiers are professional.
Posted June 25, 2009
The War at Home (1979)
Vietnam Movie #7
The War at Home
Amazon Price: $22.49 (as of 11/11/2009)
Nominated for an Academy Award and cited by film critic Roger Ebert as one of the twenty greatest political films of all time, THE WAR AT HOME vividly chronicles the anti-war protest movement of the 1960's and 70's. The film provides an illuminating look at the home front of the Vietnam War-- the war that students and other anti-war dissidents waged on America's political system, military and notions of patriotism. Through a powerful combination of rare archival footage and interviews with community leaders and Vietnam veterans, THE WAR AT HOME shows how the anti-war movement grew into a genuine people's revolution in tandem with the escalation of war in Vietnam.
Unnatural Causes (1986)
Vietnam Movie #8
Unnatural Causes
Amazon Price: $6.99 (as of 11/11/2009)
Review from the New York Times:
Based on several actual case histories, Unnatural Causes stars John Ritter as a Vietnam veteran dying of Agent Orange poisoning. Alfre Woodard co-stars as real-life V.A. administration benefits counselor Maude DeVictor. Battling against official denials and bureaucratic red tape, Ms. DeVictor is finally able to expose the dangers of Agent Orange, and to assure full compensation for victims like Ritter (whose character is a composite)
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Shooting Grunts
Vietnam War Movie #9
Shooting Grunts
Amazon Price: $17.99 (as of 11/11/2009)
SHOOTING GRUNTS is the high-octane story of a young combat movie cameraman in Vietnam who shot the war with film instead of bullets. Effectively covering the cameraman's period of enlistment, late 1966 to early 1968, the film shows what actually happened in those turbulent years when American troops thought they would be permitted to win and were 'gung-ho' to fight the fight. Avoiding the use of anti-war talking heads, the film makers have focused on both the soldiers and cameraman in a dramatic light seldom seen in a war documentary. Considered the definitive war movie when it comes to praising American troops facing enemy soldiers, it doesn't gloss over the high price paid by our men in the name of patriotism. Professionally edited from digitally enhanced footage actually shot on Vietnam battlefields, SHOOTING GRUNTS is supported by a musical score that was awarded a Silver Remi at the 2008 Houston International Film Festival.
True Stories of Vietnam
True Stories of a Green Beret in Vietnam
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Stories of Vietnam
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True Stories of Vietnam "While war is always wrenching, the Vietnam War tore apart this country in ways from which we have never recovered. To many, it was a loss of innocence, the event that led to what has been called a permanent adversarial c...
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Stories of Vietnam Part Four
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True Stories of Vietnam "Television brought the brutality of war into the comfort of the living room. Vietnam was lost in the living rooms of America--not on the battlefields of Vietnam." - Marshall McLuhan, 1975 "Our purpose in Vietnam is to preven...
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Stories of Vietnam Part Three
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True Stories of Vietnam "Now, it should be incandescently clear that no one who has any concern for the integrity and life of America today can ignore the present war. If America's soul becomes totally poisoned, part of the autopsy must read Vietnam...
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Stories of Vietnam Part Five
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True Stories of Vietnam "This war has already stretched the generation gap so wide that it threatens to pull the country apart." --Marshall McLuhan, 1975 "Above all, Vietnam was a war that asked everything of a few and nothing of most...
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Stories of Vietnam Part Two
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True Stories of Vietnam "The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars." William Westmoreland "Once upon a time our traditional goal in war... was victory. Once upon a time we were proud of our strength, our military power. Now we seem asha...
Vietnam: A Retrospective
Vietnam Movie #10
Vietnam: A Retrospective
Amazon Price: $35.99 (as of 11/11/2009)
Since 1935, the National Archives has been responsible for the acquisition, preservation and public dissemination of the permanent records of the United States government. Step into the vaults of the National Archives and relive the country s most incredible moments. Hand-picked and selected by archivists, all the films in this line are treasures in their own respects.
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lollyj wrote...
Thanks for visiting my lens, stargazer.
This is a GREAT idea for a lens. I remember my grandparents staring at the tv in horror at the visions of war in a place they had to look up on the map.
My husband and I watch We Were Soldiers every time it's on tv. Great movie.
5 and fave from a fellow JJJ team member.
Posted July 12, 2009
kiwisoutback wrote...
This is a great idea. I haven't seen any of them, and I love these type of movies. Squid Angel blessed!
Posted July 07, 2009
mukunda22 wrote...
This really rocks! Haven't seen these, and I think I must!!
Thank you for sharing these movies in such an eye appealing way!!
Posted July 07, 2009
Ramkitten wrote...
Well done lens. I have a lens about top 10 lists if you'd like to add this to the plexo on Top 10 Lists of Top Ten Lists of Top Ten. (Say that ten times fast!) :) I've actually never seen any of these films.
Posted July 05, 2009
stargazer00 wrote...
in reply to allinclusiveblog These are the top ten according to Amazon's customer reviews. I think the ones you mentioned might appear in a future lens!
Posted June 30, 2009
allinclusiveblog wrote...
No Casualties of War, Hamburger Hill, Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, etc...?
Posted June 30, 2009
KarateKatGraphics wrote...
Have only seen the fiction movies on this subject--always difficult to watch. Great recommendations here. 5*
Posted June 26, 2009
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