# The best Vietnam War movies

Jungle, helicopters and the trauma of coming home: the best films about the Vietnam War, according to Olhar Digital, Brasil Paralelo and Cinema10.

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- May 14, 2024 · cinefilo83
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## Top 10

1. **Apocalypse Now (1979)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Captain Willard heads upriver after Colonel Kurtz, by Coppola.
2. **Platoon (1986)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A recruit caught between two sergeants, by Oliver Stone; four Oscars.
3. **The Deer Hunter (1978)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Three steelworker friends before, during and after the war.
4. **Full Metal Jacket (1987)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From Marine boot camp to Huế, by Kubrick.
5. **Born on the Fourth of July (1989)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Ron Kovic, from soldier to anti-war activist.
6. **Good Morning, Vietnam (1987)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — An irreverent radio DJ in Saigon.
7. **Casualties of War (1989)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A soldier reports a crime committed by his comrades, by De Palma.
8. **We Were Soldiers (2002)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore in the Ia Drang Valley.
9. **Coming Home (1978)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A paraplegic veteran and an officer's wife.
10. **Taxi Driver (1976)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Travis Bickle and the hangover of a lost war.
11. **Da 5 Bloods (2020)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Four Black veterans return to Vietnam, by Spike Lee.
12. **Uncommon Valor (1983)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A colonel returns to Laos to find his missing son.
13. **The Post (2017)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — The Washington Post and the Pentagon Papers, by Spielberg.

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