Go Tell the Spartans (1978)
A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement find similarities between their helpless struggle against the Viet Cong and the doomed actions of a French unit at the same site a decade before in this bitter look at the beginnings of the Vietnam war
First Blood (1982)
John Rambo is a disoriented Vietnam Vet... Rambo soon finds himself reliving the awful memories of his fighting days in the 'Nam as he is put through the basic tests that are mandatory for all prisoners of the law. Rambo escapes the law and what follows is an intense manhunt for a man who only "wanted something to eat."... Rambo uses his well-honed survival and combat skills to cripple the posse pursuing him and leave... with a warning to leave him alone - a warning repeated in other Rambo films that followed.
Coming Home (1978)
United States Army. He is sent over to Vietnam, and Sally is alone. With nothing else to do, she decides to volunteer at a local veteran's hospital, where she meets Luke, who went to high school with Sally. Luke was wounded and is paralyzed and confined to a wheelchair. When Sally begins to fall in love with Luke, she has to make a crucial decision about her life.Sally Hyde (Jane Fonda) is borrowing. Her husband Bob (Bruce Dern) has gone to the Vietnam War. She goes to work as nurse in a veterans hospital where Violet, her friend, works too. In hospital she meets an old friend, Luke Martin (Jon Voight). Like Bob, Luke had gone to Nam but he came back paraplegic. Love between Luke and Sally grow and she discovers the orgasm. After the suicide of Violet's Brother (another veteran who came back mad) Luke has only one obsession: do anything to stop the sending of young guys to war
Boys in Company C, The (1978)
This war drama (which prefigures the later "Full Metal Jacket") follows the lives of five young Marine inductees from their training in boot camp in 1967 through a tour in Vietnam in 1968 that quickly devolves into a hellish nightmare. Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander, the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they can defeat a rival soccer team, they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind the lines. But as they might have predicted, nothing in Vietnam is as simple as it seems
Blind Fury (1989)
A Vietnam vet blinded in the war uses his samurai fighting skills and a concealed sword stick to help protect the son of a dead comrade from a crime organisation.Nick Parker was a Vietnam vet who got blinded during the war. He would be found by one of the loca
Birdy (1984)
Two friends arrive back from Vietnam, scarred in different ways. One has physical injuries, the other has mental problems that make him yearn to be a bird, a subject he has always been fascinated with.Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam war. One of them has always been obsessed
