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.

Fuldstændig ureglementeret uniformeret og med en opførsel, som ville give selv den mest hårdhudede sergent hjerteslag, ankommer discjockeyen Adrian Cronauer til Saigon under Vietnamkrigen. Allerede den første morgen, skriger han sit "GOOD MORNING, Vietnam" fulgt op af den vildeste rockmusik, æteren over den militære radiostation nogensinde er blevet fyldt med. Hans udsendelser overskrider de officielle program regulativer med flere dagsmarcher, men snart er Adrian Cronauer blevet soldaternes idol, officerernes mareridt og civilbefolkningens mærkeligste billede af Vestens kultur...

Under Vietnam-krigen bliver 5 soldater sendt på en mission. Missionen i sig selv er intet udover det ordinære, men Sergent Meserve har lagt specielle planer for denne vandretur. På vejen stopper de i en landsby, og her kidnapper delingen en ung pige, og tager med på turen. Soldaterne tæver og voldtager hende på skift, på nær en. Eriksson vil slet ikke tage del i voldsomhederne, og trodser derved den forskruede Meserve. Men hvad er reglerne i krig, og hvordan redder Eriksson sit eget skind og pigens?

Oberst Braddock og hele hans kompagni sidder fanget i en nordvietnamesisk fangelejr, længe efter at krigen er slut. Lejerens sadistiske kommandant nægter at løslade dem, før Braddock har underskrevet en erklæring om, at han er krigsforbryder. Men Braddock nægter, for han ved, at hvis han underskriver, bliver det deres død. Kun en flugt kan redde dem, og han starter en enmandsrevolution.

West Point graduate lieutenant Jeff Knight meets cynicism when taking command of sergeant Michael McNamara's tour veterans platoon in a Vietnamese trench camp. Unlike his predecessor, who hid till the end of his tour, Jeff takes charge, experiences the manual doesn't allow coping with all realities and gets wounded. He returns, now fully respect by men and superiors. Besides the Vietcong, the platoon wrestles with the inscrutable villagers, which the G.I.'s officially protect, but also fear as some collaborate with them, other covertly with the Cong, either way subject to bloody reprisals.

A powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's look at the way the USA goes to war—as seen from inside the LBJ White House leading up to and during the Vietnam War.

In 1966, Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, captured, and, down to 85 pounds, escaped. Barefoot, surviving monsoons, leeches, and machete-wielding villagers, he was rescued. Now, near 60, living on Mt. Tamalpais, Dengler tells his story: a German lad surviving Allied bombings in World War II, postwar poverty, apprenticed to a smith, beaten regularly. At 18, he emigrates and peels potatoes in the U.S. Air Force. He leaves for California and college, then enlistment in the Navy to learn to fly. A quiet man of sorrows tells his story: war, capture, harrowing conditions, escape, and miraculous rescue. Where did he find the strength; how does he now live with his memories?

Something in his past keeps career Army man John Paul Vann from advancing past colonel. He views being sent to Vietnam as part of the US military advisory force a stepping stone to promotion. However, he disagrees vocally (and on the record) with the way the war is being run and is forced to leave the military. Returning to Vietnam as a civilian working with the Army, he comes to despise some South Vietnamese officers while he takes charge of some of the U.S. forces and continues his liaisons with Vietnamese women.

A Marine patrol stops at Firebase Gloria at the start of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam war. With the firebase attacked, the patrol remains to help defend it.

Commander and his small band of freedom fighters make life difficult for the VC after the Vietnam War is over. They free Vietnamese prisoners, and destroy enemy convoys every chance they can get. This severely upsets the evil Russian Vlasov, who is working with the VC in various nefarious enterprises. An ultra-violent, Rambo style movie filmed in the Philippines.

In Laos, 1954, eight days before the french defeat in the Indochina war, the 317th platoon – four french soldiers and 41 laotian combatants – has been ordered to leave its outpost and to retreat for the plains of Diên Biên Phu, where the french army is getting stucked. Led by the inexperienced and idealistic sous-lieutenant Torrens, fresh out of the military academy, and by adjutant Willsdorf, a WWII veteran of the Werhmacht, the group must cross 150 kilometers of jungle. But dripping rainwater, hostile nature, and the Viêt-minh ambushes expose them to constant danger.

During the Vietnam war, an American soldier gets trapped beind enemy lines. A squad of his buddies sets out to rescue him.

Using obscure archival footage, animated illustrations and interviews, this film tells the story of the Vietnam War from the perspective of five Vietcong veterans: a soldier, an officer, an informant, a guerilla, a My Lai survivor, and the leader of the Long Hair army.