Feature Films: Vietnam War R e t r o spective

FEATURE FILMS ABOUT THE WAR

Image: Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now, 1979
153 min.
Directed by: Francis Ford Coppola

Image: The Deer Hunter
The Deer Hunter, 1978
183 min.
Directed by: Michael Cimino

Image: Go Tell the Spartans
Go Tell the Spartans, 1978
114 min.
Directed by: Ted Post

Image: Born on the 4th of July
Born on the Fourth of July, 1989
144 min.
Directed by: Oliver Stone

Image: First Blood
First Blood, 1982
96 min.
Directed by: Ted Kotcheff

Image: Good Morning, Vietnam
Good Morning Vietnam, 1987
121 min.
Directed by: Barry Levinson

Image: China Gate
China Gate, 1957
97 min.
Directed by: Samuel Fuller

Image: Full Metal Jacket
Full Metal Jacket, 1987
116 min.
Directed by: Stanley Kubrick

Image: The Green Berets

Green Berets, 1968
141 min.
Directed by: John Wayne, Ray Kellogg

Image: Coming Home
Coming Home, 1978
127 min.
Directed by: Hal Ashby

Image: Forrest Gump
Forrest Gump, 1994
142 min.
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis

Image: Hamburger Hill
Hamburger Hill, 1987
94 min.
Directed by: John Irvin

Image: Platoon
Platoon, 1986
120 min.
Directed by: Oliver Stone

Image: Rambo
Rambo: First Blood Part II, 1985
95 min.
Directed by: George P. Cosmatos

The Quiet American, 1958
120 min.
Directed by: Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Image: The Ugly American
The Ugly American, 1963
120 min.
Directed by: George Englund

***A good up-to-date guide: Michael Lee Lanning, Vietnam at the Movies (New York: Ballantine Books, 1994)

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