Vietnam War in film

Viet Cong poster for a 1967 film about the death of war hero Nguyễn Văn Bé^{[citation needed]}

This article lists notable films related to the Vietnam War.

Representation of the Vietnamese in film[]

In film, people are able to portray people and events to fit the needs of the audience and the intended purpose of the film. However, it is also noted how certain people/communities may be biased for their perspective of said film. According to a study by Martin Novelli, the depictions of the Vietnamese in American war films is often negatively stereotyped. Vietnamese civilians are usually shown as passive victims, prostitutes, or conniving with the enemy, while North Vietnamese Army and Viet Cong guerilla fighters are frequently drawn as cruel torturers or effeminate cowards, and the ARVN are described as incompetent. In addition, many relevant facts concerning the conception of the war, or America's subsequent acknowledgement of how the war was a mistake were not properly addressed. Instead, filmmakers focused more on the themes of war compared with educating the populace with hard facts.

In Walsh and Louvre's opinion, "the ideology of such films speaks of several basic and widespread public attitudes towards the war".^[1]

Donna Alvah reported that students writing an introductory essay on the war often reflect the perception shared by most Americans born after the war. According to Alvah, students' conceptions of the Vietnam War are "largely gleaned from movies, documentaries, music, and .. relatives who served in the war, or who in any case hold strong opinions about it."^[2]

Post-war films[]

After the Vietnam War ended in 1975, there was an increase in American films that were more "raw", containing actual battle footage. A FilmReference.com article noted that American filmmakers "appeared more confident to put Vietnam combat on screen for the first time" during that era.^[3] These American post-war film representations have generally been more realistic and gritty, such as The Deer Hunter (1978) and Apocalypse Now (1979).^[3]

Theatrical films about the Vietnam War[]

Year	Country	Title	Director	Events depicted
1964	US	A Yank in Viet-Nam	Marshall Thompson	A USMC pilot is shot down, but meets a female guerrilla; filmed in South Vietnam
1966	US	To the Shores of Hell	Will Zens	A USMC officer leads a rescue attempt of his brother who is held prisoner by the Viet Cong
1968	US	The Green Berets	John Wayne, Ray Kellogg	A tribute to U.S. Special Forces, starring John Wayne, filmed mostly in Georgia^[4]
1970	US	The Losers	Jack Starrett	An American motorcycle gang is recruited for a mission into Cambodia
1970	West Germany	o.k.	Michael Verhoeven	Based on the Incident on Hill 192. An American patrol torture and kill a Vietnamese girl.
1971	South Vietnam	Người tình không chân dung
1971	South Vietnam	Chân trời tím (phim)
1972	South Vietnam	Người cô đơn (phim 1972)	Hoàng Thi Thơ
1972	US	The Visitors	Elia Kazan	A story of a Vietnam War veteran who is confronted by two other members of his platoon.
1972	North Vietnam	Vĩ tuyến 17 ngày và đêm		Life of Vietnamese living on both sides of the 17th parallel that splits Vietnam into North and South
1973	South Vietnam		Nguyễn Văn Tường
1974	South Vietnam	Đất khổ		The Battle of Hue during the Tet Offensive in 1968.
1974	US	There Is No 13	William Sachs	Surrealist cinema based film involving a young Vietnam War soldier reminiscing about twelve love affairs with the cinematography ending before the subject of the thirteenth romance
1975	Republic of South Vietnam	Girl from Hanoi		Operation Linebacker II
1978	Hong Kong, US	The Boys in Company C	Sidney J. Furie	A group of Marines go through basic training and a tour of service in Vietnam in 1968
1978	US	Go Tell the Spartans	Ted Post	US military advisers during the early part of the war (1964)
1978	US, UK	The Deer Hunter	Michael Cimino	Three friends from Pennsylvania go off to fight, and come back changed men^[4]
1979	Australia	The Odd Angry Shot	Tom Jeffrey	Follows a group of Australian soldiers in Vietnam
1979	Vietnam	The Abandoned Field: Free Fire Zone (Cánh đồng hoang)		An "unnerving and compelling .. subjective-camera-eye-view" of life under helicopter fire in the Mekong Delta. The film cuts to an (American) "helicopter-eye view", contrasting painfully with the human tenderness seen earlier.^[5]
1979	US	Apocalypse Now	Francis Ford Coppola	A special forces officer is called in to locate and kill a rogue colonel^[4] in a retelling of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness
1980	Italy	The Last Hunter	Antonio Margheriti	Set in 1973, a US officer goes on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines to blow up an enemy propaganda radio station
1981	UK	How Sleep the Brave	Lyndon James Swift	A group of new soldiers go on a mission in the jungle
1982	US	Don't Cry, It's Only Thunder	Peter Werner	An Army medic in Saigon takes care of a group of Vietnamese orphans.
1982	Vietnam	Ván bài lật ngửa	Lê Hoàng Hoa	Biopic of the North Vietnamese spy Pham Ngoc Thao
1982	Vietnam	Con thú tật nguyền
1983	US	Streamers	Robert Altman	Four soldiers awaiting deployment to Vietnam
1984	US	Purple Hearts	Sidney J. Furie	Love story between a surgeon (Ken Wahl) and a nurse (Cheryl Ladd) who are serving in the U.S. Navy during the war
1985	Vietnam, USSR	Coordinates of Death^[6] (a.k.a. Target for Death)	Samvel Gasparov,	Stranded Soviet sailors witness American war brutality
1985	US	Missing in Action 2: The Beginning	Lance Hool	U.S. POW breaks out of Vietnamese prison camp.
1986	US	Platoon	Oliver Stone	A new recruit's service in a platoon of soldiers patrolling the Cambodian border^[4]
1987	US, Philippines	Eye of the Eagle	Cirio H. Santiago	US officer hunts down rogue G.I.s.
1987	US	Gardens of Stone	Francis Ford Coppola	Set in 1968-1969, James Caan plays the frustrated sergeant in charge of the Arlington National Cemetery ceremonial guard.
1987	UK, US	Full Metal Jacket	Stanley Kubrick	Battle of Hue Tet Offensive^[4]
1987	US	Hamburger Hill	John Irvin	Battle of Hamburger Hill in the Ashau Valley^[4]
1987	US	Good Morning, Vietnam	Barry Levinson	Loosely based on the experiences of AFRS radio DJ Adrian Cronauer
1988	US	Off Limits	Christopher Crowe	Two US Criminal Investigation Command agents investigate murders of Vietnamese prostitutes by high-ranking US officers
1988	US	Platoon Leader	Aaron Norris	An inexperienced officer learns the ropes of fighting in Vietnam
1988	US	Bat21*	Peter Markle	Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton's experience of survival while MIA
1988	US	1969	Ernest Thompson	The film deals with the Vietnam War and the resulting social tensions between those who support and oppose the war in small-town America.
1989	US	The Iron Triangle	Eric Weston	Viet Cong soldier protects captured GI who spared his life
1989	US, Philippines	The Siege of Firebase Gloria	Brian Trenchard-Smith	Marines defend a firebase during the Tet offensive
1989	US	84C MoPic	Patrick Sheane Duncan	Found footage-style mockumentary follows a US Long-range reconnaissance patrol
1989	Philippines, US	Eye of the Eagle 2: Inside the Enemy	Carl Franklin	US soldier goes to rescue Vietnamese girlfriend who has been kidnapped by superior officer
1989	US	The Expendables	Cirio H. Santiago	Commando trains a group of misfit soldiers for dangerous mission
1989	US	Casualties of War	Brian De Palma	The incident on Hill 192^[7]
1989	Hong Kong	A Better Tomorrow III: Love & Death in Saigon	Tsui Hark	A crime story involving the struggle of Chinese mobsters and their family trying to get back to Hong Kong during the fall of Saigon.
1989	US	Born on the Fourth of July	Oliver Stone	Based on the experiences of Ron Kovic, who joined the Marines and was wounded and paralyzed in Vietnam. Upon his return to the US, he evolves into a significant activist against the war.^[8]
1990	US	Air America	Roger Spottiswoode	Air America pilots uncover U.S. plot to smuggle narcotics
1990	Hong Kong	Bullet in the Head	John Woo	Hong Kong mobsters travel to Vietnam during the war to smuggle illegal goods. They get entangled with both sides in the war.
1991	US	Flight of the Intruder	John Milius	A-6 Intruder pilots go on an unauthorized mission to bomb targets in North Vietnam
1991	US	Dogfight	Nancy Savoca	Dogfight shows the last night of several marines in San Francisco, before they are sent to the Vietnam war. Only a short scene of the war itself is shown, where several of the Marines die. Later one marine gets back to San Francisco, where he realises that everything has changed, even the behaviour of the society towards the Marines.
1991	US	For the Boys	Mark Rydell	Bette Midler and James Caan portray two USO artists who entertain the troops and experience turmoil
1992	South Korea	White Badge	Chung Ji-young	Story of two South Koreans who served in Vietnam
1993	US, France	Heaven & Earth	Oliver Stone	Based on the experiences of Vietnamese civilian Le Ly Hayslip of the Vietnam war and its aftermath.
1994	US	Forrest Gump	Robert Zemeckis	Title character serves in Vietnam
1995	US	The Walking Dead	Preston A. Whitmore II	In the waning days of the war, a group of Marines are sent to rescue US POWs
1995	US	Operation Dumbo Drop	Simon Wincer	Green Berets bribe Vietnamese villagers with an elephant
1995	US	Dead Presidents	Albert Hughes	Characters serve in Vietnam
1998	Puerto Rico	Héroes de otra patria ("Heroes from Another Country")	Iván Dariel Ortíz	Two Puerto Rican soldiers in action and their family back home
2000	US, Germany	Tigerland	Joel Schumacher	US recruits go through basic training before going to Vietnam
2002	US, Germany	We Were Soldiers	Randall Wallace	Battle of Ia Drang
2003	Vietnam	Hà Nội 12 ngày đêm		Operation Linebacker II
2003	South Korea	The Classic	Kwak Jae-yong	A romantic movie set in 1968. Joon-ha joins the South Korean Army and goes to Vietnam.
2004	South Korea	R-Point	Kong Su-chang	South Korean unit is sent out to find missing platoon in this horror film
2005	Vietnam	[vi]	Long Vân	North Vietnam and Viet Cong units' attacks during the fall of Saigon
2008	South Korea	Sunny	Lee Joon-ik	Wife of South Korean serving in Vietnam takes job as singer to be near her husband
2008	Canada, US, Germany	Tunnel Rats	Uwe Boll	U.S. "Tunnel rats" who go into Viet Cong tunnel complexes
2009	Canada, US, Germany	21 and a Wake-Up		The film focuses on real people McIntyre knew in the Marines, as well as experiences of Dr. Marvin Wayne, renowned and decorated physician at the 24th Evac in its final year.
2012	Australia	The Sapphires	Wayne Blair	The Sapphires is about four indigenous Australian women, Gail (Deborah Mailman), Julie (Jessica Mauboy), Kay (Shari Sebbens) and Cynthia (Miranda Tapsell), who are discovered by a talent scout (Chris O'Dowd), and form a music group named The Sapphires, travelling to Vietnam in 1968 to sing for troops during the war.
2013	Japan	Number Ten Blues		Saigon in February 1975, during the final stage of the Vietnam War, there is another story of love and violence. Japanese businessman Sugimoto (Yūsuke Kawazu) accidentally kills a Vietnamese man.
2014	South Korea	Ode to My Father	Yoon Je-kyoon	The main character and his best friend serve in the Vietnam War.
2015	US		Fred Koster	The movie takes place during the Easter Offensive in 1972 and the aftermath of the Fall of Saigon in 1975 with the Vietnamese communist camps. The protagonists are US Captain John Ripley and ARVN Lieutenant Colonel Le Ba Binh.
2017	US	The Post	Steven Spielberg	Set in the early 1970s, The Post depicts the true story of attempts by journalists at the Washington Post to publish the Pentagon Papers, classified documents regarding the 30-year involvement of the United States government in the Vietnam War.
2019	Australia	Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan	Kriv Stenders	Battle of Long Tan in August 1966.
2020	US	Da 5 Bloods	Spike Lee	Follows four aging Vietnam War veterans who return to the country in search of the remains of their fallen squad leader.

Theatrical films about the Vietnam War POWs[]

Year	Country	Title	Director	Events depicted
1987	US	The Hanoi Hilton	Lionel Chetwynd	Mistreatment of U.S. POWs in the Hỏa Lò Prison
1987	US	In Love and War (1987 film)	Lionel Chetwynd	Mistreatment of U.S. POWs in the Hỏa Lò Prison
2006	US	Rescue Dawn	Werner Herzog	Dieter Dengler's experience as a POW

Theatrical films about the Anti-Vietnam War movement[]

Year	Country	Title	Director	Events depicted
1969	US	Hail, Hero!	David Miller	A young man (Michael Douglas in his screen debut) is torn between joining the army or becoming a hippie
1979	US	Hair	Miloš Forman	Film adaptation of the 1968 Broadway musical of the same name about a Vietnam war draftee who meets and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to the army induction center
1980	US	Return of the Secaucus 7	John Sayles	Reunion of anti-war protesters
2007	US	Across the Universe	Julie Taymor	The main character's best friend is drafted to fight in the war
2020	US	The Trial of the Chicago 7	Aaron Sorkin	Follows the Chicago Seven, a group of anti–Vietnam War protesters charged with the intention of inciting riots at the 1968 Democratic National Convention.

Theatrical films about Vietnam War veterans[]

Year	Country	Title	Director	Events depicted
1965	US	Motorpsycho	Russ Meyer	A US motorcycle gang is led by a disturbed veteran
1968	US	Targets	Peter Bogdanovich	A disturbed Vietnam veteran goes on a sniper shooting spree after killing his wife and mother
1972	US	The Visitors	Elia Kazan	Vietnam veterans confront each other over war crime
1973	US	Forced Entry		An unnamed and psychotic Vietnam War veteran who returns from the Vietnam War sexually assaults and kills random women who stop at the filling station where he works as a gas station attendant
1974	Canada	Deathdream	Bob Clark	War veteran returns home as a living corpse
1976	US	Taxi Driver	Martin Scorsese	A mentally disturbed Vietnam veteran comes to New York City after the war, and gets a job driving taxicabs due to insomnia. He is unable to fit into society, displays obsessive behavior, and is driven to violence
1976	US	The Zebra Force	Joe Tornatore	The film is about a group of Vietnam War veterans who declare war on Los Angeles drug dealers and the Mafia.
1977	US	Heroes	Jeremy Kagan	Amnesiac Vietnam veteran seeks out former comrades
1977	US	Rolling Thunder	John Flynn	A returning Vietnam veteran loses his family to a violent home invasion, and decides to seek and retaliate against those responsible.
1978	US	Coming Home	Hal Ashby	Homecoming of a Vietnam veteran
1978	US	Big Wednesday	John Milius	3 surfer friends face the draft in 1965, one serves in Vietnam and they reunite in the early 1970s
1980	US	The Exterminator	James Glickenhaus	Vietnam veteran turns vigilante
1980	US	The Stunt Man	Richard Rush	Vietnam veteran stumbles on a movie set and takes a job as a stunt man to hide out from police
1982	US	First Blood	Ted Kotcheff	John Rambo, a highly decorated special forces veteran traumatized by his experiences as a prisoner of war, goes on a rampage in a northwestern U.S. town against law enforcement officers who push him too far.
1983	US	Americana	David Carradine	A down on his luck, former Green Beret captain, freshly discharged from the Vietnam War, drifts into Drury, Kansas.
1985	US	Alamo Bay	David Carradine	Alamo Bay is a 1985 drama film about a Vietnam veteran who clashes with Vietnamese immigrants who move to his fictitious Texas bay hometown.
1986	US	Combat Shock	Buddy Giovinazzo	Vietnam veteran goes insane
1987	Hong Kong	Eastern Condors	Sammo Hung	Lieutenant Colonel Lam is an American army officer given a top-secret mission by the US military. The mission entails entering Vietnam to destroy an old American bunker filled with missiles before the Viet Cong can get to them.
1988	US	Braddock: Missing in Action III	Aaron Norris	Vietnam vet goes back to Vietnam to rescue left behind wife and child
1988	US	Above the Law	Andrew Davis	The main character was recruited into the CIA by Special Agent Nelson Fox and was involved in covert operations on the Vietnamese-Cambodian border during the Vietnam War.
1989	US	Jacknife	David Jones	Vietnam veterans have trouble adjusting to civilian life
1989	US	In Country	Norman Jewison	Daughter of deceased Vietnam vet explores her father's past through her uncle, also a vet
1990	US	Jacob's Ladder	Adrian Lyne	Vietnam vet is haunted by his past
1991	US	McBain	James Glickenhaus	Vietnam veterans reunite to depose a Colombian dictator
1992	US	Universal Soldier	Roland Emmerich	The film tells the story of Luc Deveraux, a former U.S. Army soldier who was killed in the Vietnam War in 1969, and returned to life following a secret military project called the "Universal Soldier" program.
1994	US	The War	Jon Avnet	A returned Vietnam Veteran struggles to find work and re-establish himself back home
2001	US	Spy Game	Tony Scott
2007	US	American Gangster	Ridley Scott	The film is fictionally based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by detective Richie Roberts.
2009	US	Watchmen	Zack Snyder	Some characters are Vietnam War veterans.
2009	US	X-Men Origins: Wolverine	Gavin Hood	The main character is a Vietnam War veteran.
2014	South Korea	Obsessed	Kim Dae-woo	South Korean erotic romance film written and directed by Kim Dae-woo, about a couple having a passionate affair in a military camp under tight surveillance in 1969.
2017	US	Kong: Skull Island	Jordan Vogt-Roberts	An expedition to Skull Island was made by a US recon team to explore the odd island.
2017	US	The Foreigner	Martin Campbell	Ngoc Minh Quan, a former Chinese Vietnam War US special forces operator turned London restaurateur, who looks for revenge after his daughter is killed in a bombing.

Theatrical films about the Vietnam War MIAs[]

Year	Country	Title	Director	Events depicted
1978	US	Good Guys Wear Black	Ted Post	Former CIA assassin battles duplicitous US government official.
1983	US	Uncommon Valor	Ted Kotcheff	Father organizes a group of Vietnam veterans to go back and rescue his son who is secretly held prisoner in Laos
1984	US	Missing in Action	Joseph Zito	Vietnam veteran goes back to Vietnam to free secretly held POWs
1985	US	Rambo: First Blood Part II	George P. Cosmatos	Vietnam veteran goes back to Vietnam to free secretly held POWs

Theatrical films about the Indochina refugee crisis[]

Year	Country	Title	Director	Events depicted
1981	Hong Kong	The Story of Woo Viet	Ann Hui	The story centers on the character Woo Viet, who wants to leave his country Vietnam behind and start over in the United States.
1982	Hong Kong	Boat People	Ann Hui	The Fall of Saigon and its aftermath
1984	UK	The Killing Fields	Roland Joffé	The Killing Fields is a 1984 British biographical drama film about the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, which is based on the experiences of two journalists: Cambodian Dith Pran and American Sydney Schanberg.
1985	US	Alamo Bay	Louis Malle	Alamo Bay is a 1985 American drama film about a Vietnam veteran who clashes with Vietnamese immigrants who move to his fictitious Texas bay hometown. A despondent Vietnam veteran in danger of losing his livelihood is pushed to the edge when he sees Vietnamese immigrants moving into the fishing industry in a Texas bay town. He teams up with other fishermen and the KKK to terrorize the Vietnamese fishermen in a campaign of violence and intimidation based on true historical events that took place in Texas in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
1992	Australia	Turtle Beach	Stephen Wallace	Judith, an Australian photojournalist (Greta Scacchi), leaves her family to cover the story of Vietnamese boat people in a Malaysian refugee camp. There she befriends Minou, a Vietnamese streetwalker (Joan Chen), who has married a diplomat and together they try to bring awareness to the terrible conditions suffered by the people there.
2001	US	Green Dragon	Timothy Linh Bui	The experiences of Vietnamese refugees in the United States immediately following the end of the war
2004	US	The Beautiful Country	Hans Petter Moland	A Vietnamese boy () goes to the US to search for his father, an American ex-soldier
2005	Vietnam	Sống trong sợ hãi (Living in Fear)		A Vietnamese farmer is supporting two families after the end of the war - one in the north, which he abandoned after fleeing during the war, and his new family in the south. To get enough money he sets on to re-cultivate a field full of mines. His life and psyche is changing while he removes each mine by himself.
2007	US	Journey from the Fall	Ham Tran	Vietnamese experience of post-war re-education camps and life as refugees
2009	Australia	Mother Fish	Khoa Do	Mother Fish, also known as Missing Water, is a feature film written, produced and directed by Khoa Do. The film draws largely from Khoa Do's own experiences as a Vietnamese refugee, and reflects on the perceived fear in the general population generated by 'boat people' which is prevalent in Australian politics and discourse. Mother Fish follows the story of a middle-aged Vietnamese woman (Hyen Nguyen) working in a suburban sweatshop. In the evening when the workers have left, she is transported back to the night she and her sister (Sheena Pham) fled her homeland, led by an uncle promising to reunite them with their father. Through the setting of the sweatshop, the woman remembers the journey. The boat is unprepared for the ocean crossing, as are they. Food and water supplies are low, their engine breaks, and the threat of rape and death at the hands of South-sea pirates is real. Through the woman's memory the audience relives the experience of crossing the ocean in search of a better life.
2014	France, Belgium, Cambodia	The Gate	Régis Wargnier	The Gate (French title: Le Temps des aveux) is a 2014 French-Belgian-Cambodian drama film directed by Régis Wargnier, based on the books by François Bizot.
2012	Israël, US	Foreign Letters		The movie, which has reviews from multiple sources, involves Ellie, a 12-year-old immigrant girl from Israel, and her family after moving into the United States in 1982. At first she experiences all kinds of difficulties, but then she meets Thuy, a Vietnamese refugee her age, bringing a changing point as the movie progresses. Its themes include the immigrant experience, learning English, dealing with prejudice, sharing secrets, opening to other cultures, and creatively handling conflict in friendships.
2017	Cambodia, US	First They Killed My Father	Angelina Jolie	First They Killed My Father is a 2017 Cambodian–American Khmer biographical historical thriller film directed by Angelina Jolie and written by Jolie and Loung Ung, based on Ung's memoir of the same name. Set in 1975, the film depicts 7-year-old Ung who is forced to be trained as a child soldier while her siblings are sent to labor camps during the Communist Khmer Rouge regime.

Television films about the Vietnam War[]

Year	Country	Title	Director	Events depicted
1967	US	Wings of Fire	David Lowell Rich	Doug Sanborn (Ralph Bellamy) runs a small charter company based at a regional airport. His daughter, Kitty (Suzanne Pleshette), a young female pilot wants to be in the Unlimited class at the air races but her male friends stymie her ambitions. Her former boyfriend Taff Malloy (James Farentino) has recently come back from the US Navy and a stint as a pilot in Vietnam.
1980	US	A Rumor of War	Richard T. Heffron	Dramatization of Philip Caputo's autobiographical book on his service in Vietnam and his growing disillusionment with the war.
1998	US	A Bright Shining Lie	Terry George	Experiences of US Lt. Col. John Paul Vann, military adviser to the South Vietnamese. Based on the book by the same name by Neil Sheehan.
2002	US	Path to War	John Frankenheimer	The Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of US President Lyndon B. Johnson and his cabinet members.
2005	US	Faith of My Fathers	Peter Markle	Experiences of US Navy Lieutenant Commander John McCain (later senator) as a POW. Based on the memoir of the same name.
2016	US	All the Way	Jay Roach	All the Way is a 2016 American biographical television drama film based on events of the presidency of Lyndon B. Johnson.

Television films about Vietnam War veterans[]

Year	Country	Title	Director	Events depicted
1969	US	The Ballad of Andy Crocker	George McCowan	Begins with a Vietnam firefight and then deals with a veteran's readjustment problems
1979	US	Friendly Fire	David Greene	Based on actual events explores the questionable death of a Vietnam PFC and families quest seeking the truth about shrapnel affliction.
2001	Canada, US	Under Heavy Fire	Sidney J. Furie	Reunited veterans visit Vietnam 25 years after the war, flashbacks to their battles
2003	US	Word of Honor	Robert Markowitz	A former army officer is charged with war crimes allegedly committed by his unit in Vietnam
2006	US, Canada	The Veteran	Sidney J. Furie	Vietnam veteran and state senator returns to Vietnam 30 years after the war, and is secretly probed for information on missing soldier

Documentary films[]

Year	Country	Title	Director	Events depicted
1965	Canada	The Mills of the Gods: Viet Nam	Beryl Fox	Various scenes from the war, appearance by Bernard B. Fall
1967	France	The Anderson Platoon	Pierre Schoendoerffer	Follows a deployed US infantry platoon in Vietnam.
1967	France	Far from Vietnam	Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker and Alain Resnais
1968	US	A Face of War		Day-to-day activities of active duty Marines.
1969	US	In the Year of the Pig	Emile de Antonio	History of the war.
1970	US	Street Scenes 1970	Martin Scorsese	Follows two demonstrations against the war, interviews with participants and bystanders.
1970	US	The World of Charlie Company	John Laurence	Follows US troops of Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, of the 1st Cavalry Division.
1971	US	Vietnam! Vietnam!	Sherman Beck	A United States Information Agency film, narrated by Charlton Heston, was shot on location in Vietnam in October–December 1968 but not released until 1971.
1972	East Germany		,	Mixing Remington Arms publicity and appropriated scenes of The Green Berets, it explains how American troop modified ammunition into "tiny, flesh-tearing alumi- num missiles that cannot be detected by X-rays".^[9]
1972	US	Winter Soldier		Follows the Winter Soldier Investigation.
1974	US	Hearts and Minds	Peter Davis	Interviews with Americans and Vietnamese.
1976	East Germany		,	Interviews with former prisoner Le Quang Vinh about the South Vietnamese Co Son prison.^[9]
1976	East Germany		,	A tour of the in Hanoi.^[9]
1977	East Germany		,	Links between former German Nazis and anti-Nazis and the Vietnam war.^[9]
1977	East Germany	^[9]	,
1977	East Germany	^[9]	,	Through the South Vietnamese commander Lam Van Phat and his North Vietnamese sister, captain , the film reflects on the possibility of re-educating enemies.
1979	East Germany	^[9]	,
1979	UK	Year Zero: The Silent Death of Cambodia	David Munro	The war in Cambodia and its aftermath under the rule of the Khmer Rouge.
1980	Canada	Vietnam: The Ten Thousand Day War (TV miniseries)	Michael Maclear (producer)	History of the conflict from the First Indochina War to the Fall of Saigon.
1982	US	The Uncounted Enemy	George Crile III (producer)	The film alleges that general William Westmoreland presented false numbers of enemy combatants to the US public.
1983	US	Vietnam: A Television History (TV miniseries)		Based on Karnow's book .
1987	US	Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam	Bill Couturié	Based on letters from US soldiers serving in Vietnam.
1989	UK	Four Hours in My Lai (Yorkshire Television documentary)		My Lai Massacre.
1990	US	Berkeley in the Sixties	Mark Kitchell	Anti-war protesters at Berkeley University.
1995	UK	Vietnam: The Last Battle	David Munro	Review of the history of Vietnam of the two decades since the end of the war
1997	Germany, UK, France	Little Dieter Needs to Fly	Werner Herzog	Documents Dieter Dengler's experience as a POW in North Vietnam, and his escape.
1998	US	Regret to Inform	Barbara Sonneborn	The director, a US war widow, goes to Vietnam to explore the loss of her husband.
1999	Vietnam	The Sound of the Violin in My Lai (Tiếng vỹ cầm ở Mỹ Lai)	Tran Van Thuy	My Lai Massacre
2001	The Netherlands	First Kill	Coco Schrijber	The psychology of war is explored through interviews with Vietnam veterans.
2001	US	Unfinished Symphony: Democracy and Dissent	Bestor Cram, Mike Majoros	Follows a three-day protest against the war in Lexington, Massachusetts over Memorial Day weekend in 1971, staged by newly returned war veterans.
2001	US	Investigation of a Flame	Lynne Sachs	Story of the Catonsville Nine, Catholic activists who burned draft files in 1968 to protest against the war.
2002	US	Daughter from Danang	Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco	US woman, daughter of US soldier and Vietnamese woman goes to Vietnam to meet her biological relatives.
2003	US	The Fog of War	Errol Morris	Interview with Robert S. McNamara, US Secretary of Defense during the war.
2004	US	In the Shadow of the Blade	,	Huey helicopter on cross-US tour reunites veterans and veterans' relatives.
2004	US	Stolen Honor	Carlton Sherwood	The film connects the testimony of John Kerry with increased mistreatment of US POWs.
2004	US	Going Upriver	George Butler	U.S. Senator John Kerry's military service and his subsequent participation in the anti-war movement.
2005	France	Enemy Image	Mark Daniels	Examines the impact of televised war reporting, starting with the relatively unrestricted reporting during the Vietnam War.
2005	US	Sir! No Sir!	David Zeiger	Anti-war sentiments within the US armed forces.
2006	Australia			During the Battle of Long Tan, 108 young and mostly inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers fight for survival against an overwhelming enemy force of 2,500.
2007	US	The Camden 28	Anthony Giacchino	Follows twenty-eight members of the Catholic Left who were arrested in 1971 for attempting to break into and vandalize a draft board.
2007	US	Bomb Harvest	Kim Mordaunt	Aftermath of the bombing of Laos during the war, the problem of large amounts of Unexploded Ordnance in the country.
2008	US	Between the Lines	Scott Bass, Ty Ponder	The impact of the war on US surfing culture
2009	US	The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers	Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith	About Daniel Ellsberg and his leaking of the Pentagon Papers, a secret US government history of the war.
2011	US	Vietnam in HD (TV miniseries)	Sammy Jackson	Better known as the Vietnam Lost Films is a six part documentary of thirteen Americans confronting their experience of war in Vietnam.
2012	US	Into Harm's Way	Jordan Kronick	West Point Class of 1967 and their experiences during college and in the Vietnam War.
2014	US	Last Days in Vietnam	Rory Kennedy	About the evacuation of American and South Vietnamese Citizens.
2017	US	The Vietnam War	Ken Burns and Lynn Novick	History of the war from the anti-colonial struggle against the French to the exit of the Americans in 1973.

Documentary TV series[]

Year	Country	Title	Director	Events depicted
1968	East Germany		,	Interviews with American pilots in the "Hanoi Hilton" North Vietnam prisoner camp.^[9]

References[]

^ Louvre, Alf; Walsh, Jeffrey (1988). Tell me lies about Vietnam : cultural battles for the meaning of the war. Open University Press.
^ Bradford, Laurence (7 July 2013). "Pop culture dictates the American version of the Vietnam War". Inside Investor. Retrieved 12 July 2013.
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b Vietnam War: American Cinema After the War, FilmReference.com, retrieved 2009-03-18
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f Neale, Stephen (2000). War Films. Genre and Hollywood. Psychology Press. pp. 121–124. ISBN 978-0-415-02606-2.
^ "The Abandoned Field-Free Fire Zone (Canh dong hoang)". University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
^ IMDb, plus DVD, 2000, ALL region, with menu and subtitles in English, French; subtitles only in German, Spanish, and Italian.
^ Clarke, 2006. pp. 193–202
^ Clarke, 2006. pp. 181–192
^ Jump up to: ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g ^h Alter, Nora M. (1996). "Excessive Pre/Requisites: Vietnam Through the East German Lens". Cultural Critique (35): 39–79. doi:10.2307/1354571.