The Vietnam War was a military conflict, within the framework of the Cold War, in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia from 1955 until the fall of Saigon in 1975. This war was the continuation of the Indochina War (1946-1954) and was It was fought between the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (North Vietnam), which had the support of China and the Soviet Union, against the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) with the support of the United States and other anti-communist countries. The National Liberation Front of Vietnam also participated in this war, also known as Viet Cong, which was a communist political organization, with its own army and guerrillas, located in South Vietnam and Cambodia, which supported North Vietnam.
In this war he highlighted the use of strategies such as the network of roads and tunnels that passed through Cambodia and Laos (Ho Chi Minh route), which were vital for North Vietnam to send supplies to the Viet Cong. They also constructed a variety of artisanal traps in the jungle against the South Vietnamese and their American allies, which caused a large number of enemy casualties and negative psychological effects on their troops.
In 1973 the United States decided to withdraw its troops from Vietnam after strong public opinion against the war. The war ended with the North Vietnamese victory and the unification of Vietnam under the leadership of the Communist Party of Vietnam.
The Vietnam War has appeared widely in television, film, video games, music, and literature of participating countries, either as a complete story or as a major part of the plot.
One of the first major films based on the Vietnam War was John Wayne's pro-war “The Green Berets” (1968). In 1980, more films with a more critical view of the war were released, some of the most notable examples being Francis Ford Coppola's "Apocalypse Now", Michael Cimino's "The Deer Hunter" (1978) with Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and Meryl Streep, Oliver Stone's "Platoon" (1986), and Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket" (1987).
Other recognized films about the Vietnam War are: "Hamburger Hill" (1987), "Good Morning, Vietnam" (1987), "Hearts of Iron" (1989), "Born on the Fourth of July" (1989) , "The Siege of Firebase Gloria" (1989), "Heaven & Earth" (1993), "Forrest Gump" (1994), "We Were Soldiers" (2002), "Rescue Dawn" (2006), among others.
On the Vietnam side, although there are few productions made, "The Little Girl of Hanoi" (1974) can be highlighted, which describes life in wartime in Hanoi. Another notable work is “Don't Burn It” based on the “Diary of Dang Thuy Tram”, a North Vietnamese doctor who enlisted on the southern battlefield and was killed at the age of 27.
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TV Miniseries (2024). 7 Episodes. An espionage thriller and cross-culture satire about the struggles of a half-French, half-Vietnamese communist spy during the final days of the Vietnam War and his resulting exile in the United St...
2024
A retired Green Beret returns to Vietnam with his son for one last mission.
2023
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A man's story of leaving New York in 1967 to bring beer to his childhood buddies in the Army while they are fighting in Vietnam.
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Four African-American Vets — Paul (Delroy Lindo), Otis (Clarke Peters), Eddie (Norm Lewis), and Melvin (Isiah Whitlock, Jr.) — return to Vietnam. Searching for the remains of their fallen Squad Leader (Chadwick Boseman) and th...
June 29, 1966. A platoon of soldiers stumbles upon a large enemy force in the jungle. Outnumbered 10-to-1, they face the darkest hours of their lives. The filmmaker interviews his father and other survivors about that fateful day.
6.0One late afternoon in 1966, in a Vietnamese rubber plantation, 108 young and mostly inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers held off a force of 2500. This is their untold story. Late afternoon August 18, 1966 South Vietn...
2019
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2019
6.4It tells the true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen (also known as a PJ) medic who personally saved over sixty men.
4.0Set in Vietnam in April 1968 - three months after the tide-turning Tet Offensive and one month after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. - Point Man is the story of a U.S. Army fire team fractured by racial tensions, moral...
8.0They are very young and come from all over the industrial districts of Tuscany, so different from the famous hills of Chianti: the steelworks of Piombino, the port of Livorno and the Piaggio factories in Pontedera. It is the red p...
2018
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9.5An in-depth look (10 episodes) at the American military operations in Vietnam during the 1960s and '70s as well as the growing opposition against the war within the United States.
6.9A diverse team of explorers is brought together to venture deep into an uncharted island in the Pacific—as beautiful as it is treacherous—unaware that they’re crossing into the domain of the mythic Kong.
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2016
7.0Miss Saigon is a musical by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil based on Giacomo Puccini's opera Madame Butterfly, and similarly tells the tale of a doomed romance involving an Asian woman and her American lover. The settin...
2016
