Dramatiškas filmas apie Vietnamo karą ir jame dalyvaujančių žmonių vizijas. Leitenantas Vilardas gauna įsakymą rasti pabėgėlių stovyklą, kuriai vadovauja paslaptingasis pulkininkas Kercas. Jauno karininko užduotis paprasta - sunaikinti maištininką kuo mažiau nusižengiant teisingumui. Tačiau velniškai sunkios kelionės metu jo komanda po truputį retėja ir pats Vilardas pradeda jausti, kad darosi vis labiau panašus į tą žmogų, kurį jam įsakyta nužudyti.
Garsus muzikos laidų vedėjas 1965 metais perkeliamas į Saigoną. Visi laukia kandžių jo sąmojų bei klasiškos muzikos, kuri padės vargšams kareiviams užmiršti karo baisumus ir sunkumus. Įsivaizduokite, kaip visi nustemba, kai savo radijo imtuvuose išgirsta muzikos laidų vedėją kalbantį apie dalykus, kurių garsiai niekas neišdrįsta sakyti.
Tikrais įvykiais paremtas pasakojimas apie penkis Amerikos armijos karius, tarnaujančius Vietname. Uniformuoti jaunuoliai iš vieno kaimo pagrobia merginą, išprievartauja ir nužudo. Vienas iš karių atsisako dalyvauti žiauriuose prievartavimo ir žudymo veiksmuose. Jis liudija prieš karinį teismą ir nulemia keturių draugų likimą.
Pulkininkas Džeimsas Bredokas dalyvavo Vietnamo kare, vėliau kentėjo nelaisvėje, iš kurios sunkiai ištrūko.
Po daugelio metų jis grįžta į kovos vietas, kad išgelbėtų amerikiečių karo belaisvius, tarp kurių gali būti ir jo draugų...
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.
Three decades after German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down over Laos, he returns to the places where he was held prisoner during the early years of the Vietnam War. Accompanied by director Werner Herzog, Dengler describes in unusually candid detail his captivity, the friendships he made, and his daring escape. Not willing to stop there, Herzog even persuades his subject to re-enact certain tortures, with the help of some willing local villagers.
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.
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.
During the Vietnam war, an American soldier gets trapped beind enemy lines. A squad of his buddies sets out to rescue him.
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.
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.