Forrest Gump és un noi amb deficiències mentals no gaire profundes i amb alguna incapacitat motora que, malgrat tot, esdevindrà, entre altres coses, un heroi durant la Guerra del Vietnam. La seva persistència i bondat el portaran a aconseguir una gran fortuna, ser objecte del clam popular i a fer-se amb les més altes esferes socials i polítiques del país. Sempre sense oblidar Jenny, el seu gran amor des que era petit.
Un grup de reclutes es prepara a Parish Island, centre d´entrenament de la marina Nord-americana. Allà hi ha el sergent Hartmann, dur i implacable, que té com a única missió a la vida endurir el cos i l'ànima dels principiants, perquè puguin defensar-se de l'enemic. Però no tots els joves suporten igual els seus mètodes...
El Capità Willard és un oficial dels serveis d'intel·ligència de l'exèrcit nord-americà al que se li ha encarregat, a Cambodja, la perillosa missió d'avançar riu amunt per eliminar a Kurtz, un coronel nord-americà renegat que s'ha tornat boig. En la profunditat de la selva, en un campament sembrat de caps tallats i cadàvers putrefactes, l'enorme i enigmàtica figura de Kurtz mana com un buda despòtic sobre els membres de la tribu Montagnard, que l'adoren com a un déu.
John Rambo, antic boina verda, visitarà un antic company d'armes i rep la notícia que aquest ha mort com a conseqüència dels efectes de la guerra. Al cap de pocs dies, la policia deté Rambo per rodamón i s'acarnissa amb ell. Aleshores recorda les tortures que va patir al Vietnam i reacciona violentament.
Rambo és excarcerat i enviat de tornada a Vietnam amb una nova missió: esbrinar el parador d'uns soldats nord-americans desapareguts. Després de saltar en paracaigudes a la jungla, portant únicament un ganivet i un arc amb fletxes, se li diu que no ataqui l'enemic i que només faci fotografies de reconeixement. Però el pla no sortirà com estava previst.
Chris Taylor és un ingenu jove nord-americà que, en arribar al Vietnam, descobreix que no només ha de combatre contra els soldats vietnamites sinó també contra la por que li turmenta, el cansament i la ràbia que l'envaeix. Mentre els seus dos oficials al comandament lliuren la seva pròpia batalla personal, el conflicte, el caos i l'odi fan efecte en Taylor, confonent la seva realitat i insensibilitzant-lo davant el valor més preat de l'ésser humà... la vida.
Al juny de 1971, els principals periòdics d'EUA, entre els quals es trobaven The New York Times i The Washington Post, van prendre una valenta posició en favor de la llibertat d'expressió, informant sobre els documents del Pentàgon.
«Ens apropem a la Vall de l'Ombra de la Mort, on vetllareu per l'home que estigui al vostre costat, igual que ell vetllarà per vosaltres, i no us importarà de quin color sigui la seva pell ni com cridi al seu Déu. L'enemic contra el qual anem a lluitar és molt dur i decidit. No us puc prometre retornar-vos a tots vius a casa. Però una cosa us juro: quan entrem en combat jo seré el primer a entrar en batalla i l'últim a retirar-me. I no abandonaré a ningú, ni viu ni mort. Anirem a casa tots junts». Així va parlar davant els soldats i les seves famílies el tinent coronel Hal Moore la vespra de la seva entrada en combat.
Roger Cobb és un exitós escriptor de novel·les de terror. El seu fill Jimmy va desaparèixer misteriosament durant una visita a casa de la seva tia, i des de llavors ho busca obsessivament. Després de la tràgica mort de la seva tia, Roger s'instal·la a casa seva per escriure, però terribles visions i altres fenòmens sobrenaturals el fan intuir que el seu fill és presoner a algun lloc de la casa. Comença llavors a lluitar contra forces diabòliques.
Inspirada a l'autobiografia de Ron Kovic. Segona part de la trilogia sobre el Vietnam: mostra la història d'un jove que s'allista com a voluntari per anar a la guerra, convençut que defensar el seu país és la millor manera de demostrar-li el seu amor. Però les seves conviccions canviaran radicalment quan torni com a veterà de guerra, postrat en una cadira de rodes i atès en un hospital sorprenent.
Tercera part de la trilogia de Stone sobre Vietnam. Si a "Platoon" retrata la guerra com a tal ia "Nascut el 4 de Juliol" aprofundeix en les tremendes seqüeles psicològiques sofertes pels soldats que van tornar del front; en aquesta ocasió mostra les repercussions socials de la guerra a través de la història d'un sergent que torna als Estats Units casat amb una vietnamita que té grans dificultats per ser acceptada al nou país.
Durant la guerra del Vietnam, uns soldats americans segresten, violen i assassinen una jove pagesa innocent. L'únic soldat del pilot que no ha participat en els fets se sent, tot i això, còmplice del crim, i amenaça de denunciar-lo als seus superiors. Per això es converteix en l'objectiu dels seus companys, liderats per un psicopàtic sergent. Basada en una història real, apareguda en un diari americà, la pel·lícula reflexiona sobre l'horror de la guerra i la vida dels combatents, així com també de la pròpia naturalesa humana davant de situacions límit. La cinta es beneficia, a més, d'un duel interpretatiu inesperat entre el sempre esplèndid Sean Penn i Michael J. Fox, en un dels papers més dramàtics de la seva carrera.
Decades-long chronicle of the risky, volatile and steamy relationship between the charismatic and ambitious Hawk and the pious and idealistic Tim, two political staffers who fall in love at the height of the 1950s Lavender Scare. Through the Vietnam War protests of the 1960s, the drug-fueled disco culture of the 1970s and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s, the two men’s fiery affair only intensifies despite the constant threat of being exposed and losing everything.
The trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.
An espionage thriller and cross-culture satire about the struggles of a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist spy during the final days of the Vietnam War and his resulting exile in the United States.
Dateline: November 1967. Within klicks of Danang, Vietnam, sits a U.S. Army base, bar and hospital on China Beach filled with wounded soldiers and one very lovely but damaged Army Nurse Colleen McMurphy. Many heroes, dead and alive, try to make sense of life and death in between bourbon, bullets and battles.
An immersive 360-degree narrative telling the epic story of the Vietnam War as it has never before been told on film. Featuring testimony from nearly 80 witnesses, including many Americans who fought in the war and others who opposed it, as well as Vietnamese combatants and civilians from both the winning and losing sides.
A documentary series focusing on the ongoing Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal, evolving music industry, the Iran Hostage Crisis, the sexual revolution, and the rise of foreign and domestic terrorism.
Miniseries based on the 1977 autobiography by Philip Caputo about his service in the United States Marine Corps in the early years of American involvement in the Vietnam War.
The Goddard family is about to be torn apart by the arrival of Australian conscription during the Vietnam War.
Secrets are divulged and stories of espionage, conspiracy, murder, sabotage and greed are uncovered.
In 1964 in Laos, young Tim Page discovers his vocation as a photo journalist and is given a job, a camera, and a trip to Vietnam. There, he learns the ropes, learns about the war first in Saigon, and then in country on patrol with troops. He and his colleagues, including the sons of Errol Flynn and John Steinbeck, capture the war in pictures, recover from their wounds, swap stories, battle censorship, and support each other between the explosions at the brothel run by Tranh Ki: Frankie's House.
The firsthand experiences of thirteen Americans during the Vietnam War. The thirteen Americans retell their stories in Vietnam paired with found footage from the battlefield.
Spy drama set in the social and political chaos of 1968, inspired by a true story. Pursued into Canada by the FBI, the matriarch of an American activist family helps smuggle Vietnam war deserters and draft dodgers across the border. What she doesn't know is that one of the deserters is an agent of the CIA sent to spy on her.
The Six O'Clock Follies is an American military sitcom that aired on NBC from April 24, 1980 to September 13, 1980.
A half century look back at a year marked by the assassinations of MLK and RFK, a contentious presidential election, escalating anti-Vietnam War sentiment and more.
Faith of My Fathers is a 2005 American television film, directed by Peter Markle. Based on the 1999 memoir of the same name by United States Senator and former United States Navy aviator John McCain, it aired on A&E Network on Memorial Day, May 30, 2005. Filmed in Louisiana, Faith of My Fathers is based on the story of Lieutenant Commander John McCain's experiences as a prisoner of war in North Vietnam for five and a half years during the Vietnam War, interleaved with his memories of growing up in a heritage rich with military service. Shawn Hatosy is cast as John McCain, with Scott Glenn as his father, Admiral Jack McCain. Of the North Vietnamese captors, Chi Moui Lo played the keyman "Prick" and Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa played prison commander "Cat".
Combining first-person testimony and immersive footage, this docuseries tells the extraordinary, personal, and profoundly human stories of those who lived through the war, and explores how America emerged as a changed nation in its wake.
The history of U.S. involvement is told in this 7 part documentary series featuring personal stories from veterans and detailing the battles, strategy, and politics of a war that consumed multiple U.S. Presidents. A chronicle of the tragedy that tested the strength of our country and forever changed the social and political landscape of the world.
Documenting the history of Vietnam, the lines about the war are more than the lines about peace. War is also a part of the nation's fate, as well as the fate of every person in the country enslaved by foreign invaders. The fate of the generation of students who were born and raised during the war was the same, and history gave them as well as the entire youth class at that time the mission to end the war. They, in many different ways, directly or indirectly, sooner or later received that mission with all the enthusiasm of their youth who lived, studied, trained, upheld patriotism and tradition. student revolution in Vietnam.
A six-year project from conception to completion, Vietnam: A Television History carefully analyzes the costs and consequences of a controversial but intriguing war. From the first hour through the last, the series provides a detailed visual and oral account of the war that changed a generation and continues to color American thinking on many military and foreign policy issues.
During the course of the Southeast Asian war, the United States developed many new types of air tactics that had never previously been needed. New missions were devised, often under bizarre code-names. Some of these missions have gone on to become legends, while others have simply faded. What does remain are the men who flew the missions, the planes that were involved, and incredible stories of determination, triumph and tragedy. Wings Over Vietnam compares rare combat footage with first-hand accounts, to create a captivating portrait of these unique missions.
