Yönetmenin kurguladığı Final Cut versiyonu ile izleyici karşısına çıkan film, Vietnam'da görev alan bir Amerikan askerine verilen görev sonrasında yaşananları konu ediyor. Yüzbaşı Benjamin Willard, zorlu bir görevle karşı karşıyadır. Willard'dan, Vietnam Savaşı sırasında ordu emirlerini görmezden gelip kendisini tanrı ilan eden özel tim albayını öldürmesi istenir. Willard, gizli görevi yerine getirmeye çalışırken kendisini zorlu durumlarla karşı karşıya bulur.

Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for two missions in South Vietnam. The first is to strengthen a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy. The second is to kidnap a North Vietnamese General.

When his girlfriend dies of a drug overdose, a former Green Beret decides to take vengeance on the drug gangs responsible for her death.

A soldier attacks his corrupt superior officer and is court marshalled but before he can be sent to a firing squad he escapes...

Two men have different motivations but the same goal when they team up and mount an assault on a powerful drug gang.

A Green Beret returns home from the Vietnam war to find that a gang of murderous bikers has killed his fiancee. He calls on several of his Green Beret buddies to come and help him take revenge on the gang.

Afghanistan, immediately post-9/11: Small teams of Green Berets arrive on a series of secret missions to overthrow the Taliban. What happens next is equal parts war origin story and cautionary tale, illuminating the nature and impact of 15 years of constant combat, with unprecedented access to U.S. Special Forces.