Joker, Animal Mother, Gomer, Eightball, Cowboy og de andre havner i et helvede af en træningslejr, hvor de bliver tværet flade af den skrigende eksercits-instruktør, der betragter de vordende dræbermaskiner som padder, mider eller noget endnu lavere. Handlingen er grum, historien er nådesløs, dialogen er krydret med ætsende humor. Fra basistræningens helvede til mareridtet i Hue i Vietnam står Full Metal Jacket som et filmhistorisk hovedværk.
Forrest Gump er en mindre begavet, men hjertensgod fyr fra sydstaterne, som ganske uforvarende kommer i berøring med en lang række af de vigtigste personligheder og de mest skelsættende begivenheder i USA i midten af det 20. århundrede. Men gennem hele livet jagter han tilsyneladende forgæves den store kærlighed, barndomsveninden Jenny. Livet er som en æske med fyldte chokolader - man ved aldrig præcis, hvad man får.
Ingen på forberedelsesskolen Barton Academy kan lide professor Paul Hunham. Han har ingen familie og ingen andre steder at tage hen i julen 1970, så han bliver på skolen for at holde øje med de elever, som ikke har mulighed for rejse hjem. Der går dog ikke mange dage før, der kun er en elev tilbage. Den utilpassede Angus, som godt nok er en dygtig elev, men hvis dårlige opførsel ofte er tæt på at få ham bortvist. Sammen med skolens køkkenchef Mary, hvis søn kort forinden er blevet dræbt i Vietnam, tilbringer den umage trio en meget begivenhedsrig jul sammen i New England imens sneen vælter ned.
På en hemmelig mission under Vietnam-krigen har kaptajn Willard til opgave at udrydde oberst Kurtz, der er gået amok og har skabt sit eget rædselsregime dybt inde i junglen. På rejsen op ad floden går det op for Willard, at også han har forelsket sig i krigen.
Vietnamkrigen er forbi. Den tidligere Green Beret, Rambo, sidder i fængsel. Men Oberst Trautman henter ham ud, fordi han skal bruge sin bedste mand til en farlig, hemmelig mission. Rambo skal lede efter amerikanske krigsfanger og befri dem, men hans overlevelsesevner bliver sat på en hård prøve. Dordi han ikke lytter til sine overordnede, mener hans egne folk, at de kan undvære ham. Rambo er ude på egen hånd. Kun bevæbnet med kniv, bue og pil træder han ind mod fjenden, der er udrustet med de mest moderne våben....
Den højtdekorerede krigshelt John Rambo har ingen venner eller familie, da han vender hjem fra Vietnam. Han arresteres for løsgængeri, men flygter fra fængslet. Politiet påbegynder en storstilet menneskejagt i de omliggende skove uden at vide, at Rambo er ekspert i guerillakrig.
Da agent Bishop fanges og idømmes dødsstraf for spionage i Kina, lader CIA ham sejle i sin egen sø af politiske hensyn. Kun én mand vil forsøge at redde ham, nemlig hans tidligere ven og læremester Nathan Muir.
Afhuggede hoveder og blodige tarme hører til Roger Cobbs hverdag. Han er nemlig en af USA's bedste gyserforfattere. Men nu er han ramt af akut skrivekrampe, som følge af; at hans søn er sporløst forsvundet, hans kone vil skilles og hans faster har begået selvmord. Han beslutter sig for at flytte ind i huset, som han har arvet af fasteren. Nu håber han på endelig at kunne få lidt fred og ro. Men da han åbner garderoben i værelset, hvor fasteren hængte sig, opdager han, at noget er flyttet ind i huset.
I august 1966, på en Vietnamesisk gummiplantage kaldet Long Tan, kæmper 108 unge, uerfarne australske og new zealandske soldater for deres liv mod 1500 nordvietnamesiske og viet cong soldater. I Kriv Stenders' fantastiske krigsfilm genkalder Harry Smith den eftermiddag, der ændrede hans liv.
Den 18-årige amerikaner Chris melder sig frivilligt til krigstjeneste i Vietnam, hvor han havner i et blodigt helvede. Krigens vanvid viser sig for Chris' øjne under en massakre i en landsby, der ender med en tvekamp mellem delingens to officerer, den kyniske løjtnant Barnes og den hashrygende sergent Elias. Er der overhovedet en mening med krigen? Og kan Chris slippe fra den med livet i behold?
Vietnam, 1965. Hal Moore og hans tropper fra det syvende kavaleri blev smidt ud fra helikoptere over La Drang Valley med en simpel opgave. Find fjenden og dræb ham. Imidlertid bliver tropperne straks omringet af 2000 nordvietnamesiske soldater.
Ron Kovic er en ægte amerikaner: Patriotisk, intelligent og god til sport. Selvfølgelig melder han sig til Vietnamkrigen for at tjene sit land. Men da han bliver såret og paralyseret fra navlen og ned, styrter hans verden i grus. Efter en tid med druk og selvynk melder veteranen sig under antikrigsbevægelsens faner.
Syv fremmede mødes, med hver deres dystre hemmelighed, ved et tilfælde på hotellet El Royale på grænsen mellem Californien og Nevada i 1960'ernes USA. I løbet af en skæbnesvanger nat får de alle en sidste chance for tilgivelse… før helvede bryder løs.
I syv lange år er oberst James Braddock meldt savnet i tjenesten, mens han holdes som krigsfange i Vietnam. Men så lykkes det ham endelig at slippe fri og vende hjem til USA. Tanken om, at der findes endnu flere amerikanske soldater i de vietnamesiske fangelejre, nager ham dog så meget, at han ti år efter rejser ind i junglen igen for at give de skævøjede kommunister det glatte lag.
Året er 1971. Washington Post-udgiveren Katharine Graham og redaktøren Ben Bradlee konkurrerer med New York Times om at afsløre en massiv tildækning af regeringshemmeligheder, der har strakt sig over tre årtier og fire præsidenter. Graham og Bradlee risikerer både deres karriere og deres frihed under forsøget på at få sandheden frem i lyset. Samtidig er de nødt til at overvinde deres personlige forskelle og uenigheder.
Drabet på præsident Kennedy står stadig som en af det 20. århundredes mest chokerende begivenheder, og den fulde sammenhæng står endnu ikke klart. Kevin Costner spiller juristen Jim Garrison, som begynder at udforske drabet og udvikler en teori om en sammensværgelse, der peger på højrekræfter i det amerikanske samfund som bagmænd for ugerningen.
Ben, Paul og Frank er født og opvokset i Hong Kong. Uadskillelige venner og kampfæller i de blodige opgør med gadebanderne. Men da de dræber en bandeleder, må de flygte over hals og hoved. De ender i Vietnam. Ikke just noget fredeligt sted. Året er 1967, og Vietnamkrigen raser på sit højeste. Da de får fingrene i en guldskat, begynder tingene at gå helt galt.
The trials of a U.S. Army platoon serving in the field during the Vietnam War.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Secrets are divulged and stories of espionage, conspiracy, murder, sabotage and greed are uncovered.
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.
The Goddard family is about to be torn apart by the arrival of Australian conscription during the Vietnam War.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
This new series tells the compelling story of the Vietnam War, from the country’s dynastic history, the impact of Christian missionaries & French colonialism, Japan’s invasion during WWII and the rise of Ho Chi Minh. How the USA’s fear of communism started a relentless sequence of events that caused American troops to go in under President Kennedy in 1961, escalating under Lyndon B. Johnson in 1965 when the nation found itself entwined in a war fought nightly on TV engendering a huge anti-war movement. By 1973 Nixon had resigned and America was forced to withdraw from Saigon on April 30th 1975.
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".
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.
