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  1. Apocalypse Now

    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."...

    #456Attention Score4.0
  2. Full Metal Jacket

    A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the...

    #499Attention Score3.8
  3. Saving Private Ryan

    As U.S. troops storm the beaches of Normandy, three brothers lie dead on the battlefield, with a fourth trapped behind enemy lines. Ranger captain...

    #722Attention Score3.1
  4. The Deer Hunter

    Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter...

    #885Attention Score2.8
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  1. We Were Soldiers

    The year is 1965 and America is at war with North Vietnam. Commanding the air cavalry is Lt. Col. Hal Moore (Gibson), a born leader committed to his...

    #2,399Attention Score1.2
  2. Casualties of War

    During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.

    #3,000Attention Score0.9
  3. Born on the Fourth of July

    Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought...

    #3,461Attention Score0.8
  4. Hamburger Hill

    The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound...

    #4,295Attention Score0.6
  5. 1917

    At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on...

    #557Attention Score3.6
  6. Black Hawk Down

    When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and...

    #913Attention Score2.7
  7. The Thin Red Line

    The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about...

    #1,504Attention Score1.9
  8. Jacob's Ladder
    1990Drama

    After returning home from the Vietnam War, veteran Jacob Singer struggles to maintain his sanity. Plagued by hallucinations and flashbacks, Singer...

    #1,634Attention Score1.8
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  1. The Hurt Locker

    During the Iraq War, a Sergeant recently assigned to an army bomb squad is put at odds with his squad mates due to his maverick way of handling his...

    #1,696Attention Score1.7
  2. Lone Survivor

    Four Navy SEALs on a covert mission to neutralize a high-level Taliban operative must make an impossible moral decision in the mountains of...

    #1,725Attention Score1.7
  3. The Killing Fields

    New York Times reporter Sydney Schanberg is on assignment covering the Cambodian Civil War, with the help of local interpreter Dith Pran and American...

    #2,150Attention Score1.3
  4. Good Morning, Vietnam

    A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his...

    #2,553Attention Score1.1
  5. Flags of Our Fathers

    There were five Marines and one Navy Corpsman photographed raising the U.S. flag on Mt. Suribachi by Joe Rosenthal on February 23, 1945. This is the...

    #3,140Attention Score0.9
  6. Letters from Iwo Jima

    The story of the battle of Iwo Jima between the United States and Imperial Japan during World War II, as told from the perspective of the Japanese...

    #3,418Attention Score0.8
  7. Rescue Dawn

    A US Fighter pilot's epic struggle of survival after being shot down on a mission over Laos during the Vietnam War.

    #4,162Attention Score0.6

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