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4.25 Stars
A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
3.80 Stars
Independent film about a soldier during the Vietnam War, and his memories of the 12 women he had been involved with...there is no 13.
3.20 Stars
During the Vietnam War, Colonel Hambleton's aircraft is shot down over enemy territory and a frantic rescue operation ensues.
During the Vietnam War, Colonel Hambleton's aircraft is s...
3.15 Stars
The story of John McCain's experience as a Vietnam War POW. Based on the memoir of the same title.
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2.80 Stars
Col. Mike Kirby picks two teams of crack Green Berets for a mission in South Vietnam. First off is to build and control a camp that is trying to be taken by the enemy the second mission is to kidnap a North Vietnamese General.
John Wayne stars in this classic war film
3.20 Stars
A Sergeant must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Viet Nam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers about his experiences, he settles for trying to help the son of an old Army buddy.
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2.85 Stars
Two friends living in a small town during the 1960s, run away to enjoy their freedom during the Vietnam War, thus disappointing the father of one of them. When they return to town, they realize the importance of family unity.
Two friends living in a small town during the 1960s, run ...
3.35 Stars
A very realistic interpretation of one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.
3.40 Stars
In August 1966, in a Vietnamese rubber plantation called Long Tan, 108 young and inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers are fighting for their lives against 2500 North Vietnamese and Viet Cong soldiers.
Major Harry Smith (Travis Fimmel) and his company of 108 ...
3.05 Stars
A drama focusing on the suffering, torture, and brutal treatment the American P.O.W.s had to deal with daily while in North Vietnam's Hoa Lo Prison, the most infamous P.O.W. camp in Hanoi. The film focuses on the resistance the priso
A drama focusing on the suffering, torture, and brutal tr...
3.80 Stars
During the final days of the Vietnam War, North Vietnamese forces closed in on Saigon as South Vietnamese resistance crumbled. An unlikely group of heroes emerged as Americans and South Vietnamese took matters into their own hands.
During the chaotic final weeks of the Vietnam War, the No...
3.65 Stars
In 1965, an unorthodox and irreverent DJ named Adrian Cronauer begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the U.S. Armed Services radio station in Vietnam.
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3.15 Stars
Ten years after his son went M.I.A. in Vietnam, U.S. Marine retired Colonel Jason Rhodes assembles a private rescue team to find Americans held in P.O.W. camps in Laos.
4.40 Stars
The presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the Vietnam War, the Watergate scandal and other historical events unfold from the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75, whose only desire is to be reunited with his childhood sweeth
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4.10 Stars
An intimate look at the brave soldiers who fought during the Vietnam conflict. We hear about their time on the ground, as well as their treatment upon returning home.
4.00 Stars
German-American Dieter Dengler discusses his service as a U.S. naval pilot in the Vietnam War. Dengler also revisits the sites of his capture and eventual escape from the hands of the Viet Cong, recreating many events for the camera.
4.10 Stars
A startling and courageous landmark documentary that unflinchingly confronted the United States' involvement in Vietnam at the height of the controversy that surrounded it.
Documentary concerning the atrocities of the Vietnam war
3.55 Stars
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
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3.10 Stars
McGriff and Albaby are probably doing the worst law enforcement job in the world - they are plain clothes U.S. military policemen on duty in war-time Saigon. However, their job becomes even harder when they start investigating the se
McGriff and Albaby are probably doing the worst law enfor...
4.10 Stars
British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.
After settling his differences with a Japanese PoW camp c...
4.05 Stars
Chris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.
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3.35 Stars
During the early 1960s, U.S. military advisers in South Vietnam discover the same challenges that plagued the French army in Indochina ten years prior.
2.85 Stars
During the air war over Vietnam, a U.S. Navy A-6 Intruder bomber pilot schemes with a hardened veteran to make an unauthorized air strike on Hanoi.
During the air war over Vietnam, a U.S. Navy A-6 Intruder...
4.05 Stars
An in-depth examination of the ways in which the Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of several friends in a small steel mill town in Pennsylvania.
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4.15 Stars
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
3.85 Stars
During some months, the Dutch movie director Ivens and some North Vietnamese colleagues filmed the life of North Vietnamese peasants under the menace of heavy American bombardments. The result is an indictment of all forms of war.
2.70 Stars
A young officer, just out of West Point is sent to Vietnam, where the men don't respect him until he gets wounded and returns to be a wiser soldier and a better commander
3.60 Stars
After two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird.
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3.25 Stars
Four African-American vets battle the forces of man and nature when they return to Vietnam seeking the remains of their fallen squad leader and the gold fortune he helped them hide.
From Academy Award Winner Spike Lee comes the story of fo...
3.70 Stars
Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to uncover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusions, and perceptions of de
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3.50 Stars
A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971.
2.45 Stars
1972 Vietnam, a small group of United States Marines relive flashbacks of their contrite lives prior to serving in the military while being left to survive behind enemy lines.
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2.95 Stars
A young girl whose father died in the Vietnam War becomes determined to find out more about him and his experiences.
Home Video Trailer from Warner Home Video
2.35 Stars
During the Vietnam War [1959-1975] a special US combat unit is sent out to hunt and kill the Viet Cong soldiers in a man-to-man combat in the endless tunnels underneath the jungle of Vietnam. Suicide squads of a special kind.
Trailer for this War drama about man to man combat in the...
3.25 Stars
Michael Delucca, a Vietnam veteran broken by his struggle with post-traumatic stress, recollects his violent postwar life in a raw and touching memoir for the son he never knew.
3.45 Stars
Former Vietnam War POW Lt.Joe Hardy returns home to the US where he finds a totally changed life situation and where he struggles with PTSD.
2.85 Stars
When a young soldier in Vietnam gets dumped by his girlfriend back home, he and his best friend decide to go AWOL and return to the States to win her back.
When a young soldier in Vietnam gets dumped by his hometo...
2.65 Stars
Told in four different New Year's Eves in the mid 1960s, John, Terry, Debbie, Steve and Laurie deal with adulting, the Vietnam war, peace-rallies, and relationships.
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3.65 Stars
In 1916, a shadowy serial killer is targeting women with "afflictions"; one night during a thunderstorm, the mute Helen feels menaced.
3.85 Stars
A story of a father and son, two veterans from two very different Wars, helping each other to get through each day, and heal the wounds of War.
A story of a father and son, two veterans from two very d...
3.80 Stars
Adaptation of James Jones' autobiographical 1962 novel, focusing on the conflict at Guadalcanal during the second World War.
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3.50 Stars
A true story about four Allied POWs who endure harsh treatment from their Japanese captors during World War II while being forced to build a railroad through the Burmese jungle. Ultimately they find true freedom by forgiving their en
Home Video Trailer from Freestyle Digital Media
3.55 Stars
An insurance investigator begins discovering that the impact a horror writer's books have on his fans is more than inspirational.
Amazon Original "Carnival Row" channels the best aspects ...
3.25 Stars
A woman returns to the USA after a German U-boat sank her ship, and finds out that someone wants to kill her for her inheritance.
3.40 Stars
Thirty-four years after his death, Airman William H. "Pits" Pitsenbarger is awarded the nation's highest military honor for his actions on the battlefield.
Thirty-four years after his death, Airman William H. Pits...
3.10 Stars
The Mercy of the jungle is a road movie that deals with wars in Congo through the eyes of two lost soldiers in the jungle by showcasing their struggle, weakness and hope.
Bande-annonce avec sous-titres anglais.
3.10 Stars
Paul Parisot, a French spy in World War 1, returns home on a secret mission to visit his mother, and finds that Victoria, the wife of a German general, is billeted in the Parisot home while waiting to see her husband. Victoria discov
2.75 Stars
Janie's just trying to get well.
Trailer for Sun Choke
3.20 Stars
A drama that investigates anxiety and disillusionment in America.
Land of Plenty
2.70 Stars
Vain and ashamed of their poverty, Sylvia Gray, wife of Henry Gray, an unsuccessful playwright, elopes with Lennox, a wealthy young man, taking her daughter, "Silvery," with her. The child is later taken away by Margy, an old servant
2.70 Stars
During WW2, an American commando team is sent to rescue the prisoner of a warlord in Japanese-occupied China.