Regret to Inform (1999), The Fog of War (2003), First Blood (1982), Black Dynamite (2009), Hi, Mom (1970), The War at Home (1996), The 'Burbs (1989), Dead Presidents (1995) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Vietnam Vet movies.
Storyline: At the age of 24, American director Barbara Sonneborn lost her husband in the Vietnam War. Twenty years after his death, Sonneborn sets out to interview other American and Vietnamese women whose spouses died in the conflict. Along the way she meets a Vietnamese woman who was forced into prostitution during the war, an American woman whose husband died of chemical poisoning years after the conflict ended and a woman who worked as a North Vietnamese spy.
Plot Keywords: widow, soldier, filmmaker, vietnam vet, vietnamese woman, moving, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Former corporate whiz kid Robert McNamara was the controversial Secretary of Defense in the Kennedy and Johnson administrations, during the height of the Vietnam War. This Academy Award-winning documentary, augmented by archival footage, gives the conflicted McNamara a platform on which he attempts to confront his and the U.S. government's actions in Southeast Asia in light of the horrors of modern warfare, the end of ideology and the punitive judgment of history.—Jwelch5742
Plot Keywords: secretary of defense, president, viet cong, soldiers, vietnam vet, chilling, patriotic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: John J. Rambo is a former United States Special Forces soldier who fought in Vietnam and won the Congressional Medal of Honor, but his time in Vietnam still haunts him. As he came to Hope, Washington to visit a friend, he was guided out of town by the Sheriff William Teasel who insults Rambo, but what Teasel does not know that his insult angered Rambo to the point where Rambo became violent and was arrested. As he was at the county jail being cleaned, he escapes and goes on a rampage through the forest to try to escape from the sheriffs who want to kill him. Then, as Rambo's commanding officer, Colonel Samuel Trautman tries to save both the Sheriff's department and Rambo before the situation gets out of hand.
Plot Keywords: veteran, sheriff, commanding officer, deputy, vietnam vet, brutal, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House..
Plot Keywords: vietnam vet, kung fu master, ex-cia agent, brother, mafia boss, orphan, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A porno filmmaker (Robert De Niro) learns from a master (Allen Garfield) and turns urban guerrilla in New York.
Plot Keywords: vietnam vet, neighbor, producer, black panther, resident, beautiful woman, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Jeremy Collier is a Vietnam veteran who has returned home and is struggling to cope with the war experiences that haunt him. He is also at odds with his family, who cannot begin to understand what he has been through. Jeremy's battles with his family finally spiral out of control on Thanksgiving Day, when a bitter secret is revealed.—Azure_Girl
Plot Keywords: vietnam vet, father, mother, sister, military officer, viet cong, engaging ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This story takes place in a typical American neighborhood, when some new neighbors come to live in the house next to Ray Peterson. These new people are really strange; nobody has ever seen them, their house is a real mess, and during the night you can hear weird noises from their basement. The only thing they know is their name: Klopeks. One day Walter (an old man of the neighborhood) suddenly disappears and everyone starts to suspect the Klopeks...
Plot Keywords: suburbanite, wife, neighbor, vietnam vet, doctor, teen boy, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This action film, directed by the Hughes brothers, depicts a heist of old bills, retired from circulation and destined by the government to be "money to burn." However, more broadly, it addresses the issues of Black Americans' involvement in the Vietnam War and their subsequent disillusionment with progress in social issues and civil rights back home in the United States, during the 1960's.
Plot Keywords: vietnam vet, drug addict, pyromaniac, preacher, criminal, wife, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Vietnam veteran Vince Majestyk just wants to grow his watermelons and live in peace on his farm. But the local mob boss has different ideas. When his workers are threatened Mr. Majestyk decides to lend them a hand but then the wrath of the mob is turned onto Mr. Majestyk himself. The poor mobsters don't stand a chance.—Steve Crook <steve@brainstorm.co.uk>
Plot Keywords: vietnam vet, lawyer, mobster, migrant worker, police detective, criminal, gritty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Picking up three years after the events in Magnum Force (1973), a threatening terrorist group called "The People's Revolutionary Strike Force" declare war on the city of San Francisco and demand a ransom to be paid, otherwise they plan to blow the city apart. While Inspector "Dirty" Harry Callahan (Clint Eastwood) is in limbo following his unorthodox method during a robbery, he's sent to dispatch the terrorist group, by playing their game by being dirtier than ever. But this time, he has a new partner, Inspector Kate Moore (Tyne Daly), which might prove the task to be somewhat more difficult than ever, unless the two can work together.
Plot Keywords: dirty harry callahan, policewoman, mayor, terrorist, partner, vietnam vet, unrestrained ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Samantha Hughes (Emily Lloyd) lives with her uncle, Emmett Smith (Bruce Willis), in a small Kentucky town. After her high school graduation, she decides not to join her mother, Irene (Joan Allen), in Lexington, but instead stays with Emmett, whose mental and physical health have been affected by his experiences in the Vietnam War. Samantha's father, Dwayne (Daniel Jenkins), died in Vietnam before she was born, and she hopes to learn more about him from her traumatized uncle.
Plot Keywords: teen girl, uncle, mother, grandmother, vietnam vet, ex-girlfriend, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The American daughter of missionaries Lana returns to Los Angeles from Palestine to work in a mission helping homeless people. Lana was born in Ohio and raised in South Africa and Middle East, and she is an authentic citizen of the world, connected through Internet and aware of how other people see the lack of culture and knowledge and exaggerated patriotism of average American people. Her unique relative is her unknown uncle Paul, a veteran of Vietnam War that cut relationships with his family and is bigot and paranoid. Paul lives in a surveillance van, lives as if he were a secret agent, sees conspiracy and terrorist cells everywhere, and has a great prejudice against Arabs and other non-American breeds after the September, 11th. They meet each other, and when they see the murder of a poor Pakistanis nearby the mission, they travel together to the small town of Trone to deliver his corpse to the family, where Paul sees a different reality.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: american woman, vietnam vet, pastor, pakistani, friend, old woman, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Roger Cobb is a Vietnam vet whose career as a horror novelist has taken a turn for the worse when his son Jimmy mysteriously disappears while visiting his aunt's house. Roger's search for Jimmy destroys his marriage and his writing career. The sudden death of his aunt brings Roger back to the house where his nightmares began. The evil zombies in the house force Roger to endure a harrowing journey into his past.
Plot Keywords: father, aunt, son, missing person, novelist, vietnam vet, frightening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A man seeking peace and quiet finds himself father to three bears.
Plot Keywords: vietnam vet, bear cub, bear, chief, commissioner, indigenous person, creative ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A psychotic sniper (Pat Healy) terrorizes a bank robber (James Landry Hébert) and his hostage (Ashley Bell) in the California desert.
Plot Keywords: vietnam vet, hostage, sheriff, bank robber, serial killer, sniper, thrilling ...
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