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  1. The Deer Hunter
    1978Drama

    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...

    #256Attention Score5.3
  2. First Blood
    1982Drama

    When former Green Beret John Rambo is harassed by local law enforcement and arrested for vagrancy, he is forced to flee into the mountains and wage...

    #392Attention Score4.2
  3. Born on the Fourth of July
    1989Drama

    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...

    #2,974Attention Score0.9
  4. Coming Home
    1978Drama

    In 1968 California, a Marine officer's wife falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.

    #5,956Attention Score0.3
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  1. Full Metal Jacket
    1987Drama

    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
  2. Taxi Driver
    1976Drama

    Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly...

    #556Attention Score3.6
  3. Platoon
    1986Drama

    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.

    #992Attention Score2.5
  4. Rambo: First Blood Part II
    1985

    John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of...

    #1,433Attention Score1.9
  5. Brothers
    2024Comedy

    A reformed criminal's attempt at going straight is derailed when he reunites with his sanity-testing twin brother on a road trip for the score of a...

    #1,922Attention Score1.5
  6. Dead Presidents
    1995Drama

    On the streets they call cash dead presidents. And that's just what a Vietnam veteran is after when he returns home from the war only to find himself...

    #2,105Attention Score1.3
  7. 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...

    #2,496Attention Score1.1
  8. Casualties of War
    1989Drama

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

    #4,003Attention Score0.7
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  1. The Messenger
    2009Drama

    Will Montgomery, a U.S. Army Staff Sergeant who has returned home from Iraq, is assigned to the Army’s Casualty Notification service. Montgomery is...

    #4,321Attention Score0.6
  2. Stop-Loss
    2008Drama

    A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return...

    #4,751Attention Score0.5
  3. The Big Red One
    1980Drama

    A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian...

    #5,508Attention Score0.4
  4. In the Valley of Elah
    2007Drama

    A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's disappearance following his return from a tour of...

    #6,256Attention Score0.3
  5. A Soldier's Story
    1984Drama

    In a rural town in Louisiana, a black Master Sergeant is found shot to death just outside the local Army Base. Military lawyer, Captain...

    #6,510Attention Score0.3
  6. In Country
    1989Drama

    Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her uncle Emmett, who...

    #8,691Attention Score0.1

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