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The green beret 1968 - john Wayne
Colonel Mike Kirby is to assemble two teams of elite soldiers known as Green Berets ( "Green Berets"), for a mission in South Vietnam.
On site, they must first build a camp and defend against enemy attack, before conducting a commando operation in a General kidnapping North Vietnamese.

Last Platoon

1988 - Paul T.Robinson

the sergeant Costa head is one of the last survivors of the sections of attack of navy in Viet-Nam. Colonel Abrahams sends it for a last mission in the jungle Vietnamese.
With the head of a section of young burned heads, it has the role of blowing up an enemy bridge of capital importance.

Full Metal Jackett

1987 - Stanley Kubrick

In a camp of instruction of navy in North Carolina, seventeen young people follow an intensive drive under the authority of the Hartman sergeant. One of them, Pyle, because of its obesity, is the scapegoat of the company. He ends up revolting: he kills the sergeant and commits suicide.
Departure for Viêt-nam. Joker works for the newspaper and manages with others of the company in the offensive of the Tet.

Good Morning Vietnam

1988 - Barry Levinson
In Saigon, in 1965, Cronauer (Robin Williams) tries to make leave the beaten paths the radio of the American Forces. It ties a idylle with a native then goes on the face where the brother of its friend saves it of the Vietcong. The political slides of American engagement in Vietnam are denounced here, thanks to humour devastator of a Disc jockey who is not cold with the eyes... A denunciation of the nonsenses of this conflict which has the merit to let be expressed - sometimes - "the other side", that of the Vietnameses...

Platoon

1986 - Oliver Stone
1967 in Viêt-nam. An American operation. The Barnes sergeant became a machine to be killed whereas the Elias sergeant remains moderate. A Vietnamese village is put bag and to its inhabitants carrick out. Fearing that Elias does not speak, Barnes attracts it in a trap and kills it. The war of Viêt-nam seen of with dimensions of the infantryman without consideration useless: neither propaganda nor action in Rambo. It hard, a little is outraged, powdered with "bad conscience", but the film was presented like an exact testimony, contrary to those which had preceded it.

Outrages

1989 - Brian De Palma
During the war of Vietnam, a patrol of American soldiers removes a Vietnamese. The collective rape then the assassination of the girl revolt one of the men. In spite of the pressures of the military authority so that it is keep silent, it denounces his comrades who will be considered and condemned for war crime. This film, which denounces the murders made not soldiers in times of war, also reveals the American bad conscience relating to considerable individual and collective actions perpetrated during the conflict of Vietnam...

Apocalypse Now

1979 - Francis Ford Coppola
The Willard captain receives for mission, in full war of Vietnam, to find colonel Kurtz who, in the jungle, beyond the Kampuchean border, cut an empire on which it reigns by terror. Insane or genius? Willard will follow a river to reach the frontière.Il attends with the bombardment to the napalm of a Vietnamese village then a spectacle of playmates which turns to the débandade. After having crossed the last American bridge, it finds Kurtz in a universe of hell.

Whe where soldiers 2001 - Randall Wallace
Sunday November 14, 1965, with 10h48, in Viêt-nam, the lieutenant-colonel Harold C Moore, instructor with Fort Benning, and 400 soldiers American are parachuted on the zone known as of X-Ray, in the valley of Ia Drang. This one, called Valley of Died by the Vietnameses, is controlled by the enemy forces. Man of word, Moore advances the first on the battle field. He and its men find themselves quickly encircled by more than 2 000 soldiers of the Vietcong

Hamburger Hill 1987 - John Irvin
This film, based on a real fact to Viêtnam in 1969, reports the attack given by the 101ème American airborne division to take hill 937, known as Colline Hamburger ("Hill Hamburger"). John Irvin puts in scene ten days of combat baited between Viêtcong and the 101ème American airborne division. The latter ends up having the advantage, but at the price of as well of deaths, as this "small" victory loses any value of it.

Retour vers l'enfer 1983 - Ted Kotcheff
In 1972, old a navy with the retirement takes again service and reforms its former team to release her son captive of a prison in Vietnam.

Tigerland 2000 - Joel Schumacher
In 1971, in Fort Polk, in a camp of drive of deep Louisiana, the future soldiers involve themselves before their departure with the combat on the Vietnamese ground. At this place, the new recruits must forget their humanity and their emotions to prepare to face the worst atrocities. The second class Jim Paxton is an idealist who dreams to become writer, Miter wants to prove that he is a man, while Wilson posts an unquestionable enthusiasm with the idea to go up to assaut.Mais the arrival of a Texan young person prénommant Roland Bozz will hustle the practices of the Company.

Born one July 4 2000 - Oliver Stone
Evocation of the terrible experiment of Ron Kovic, born one July 4, national feastday americaine, excels citizen, Marine and volunteer in Viet-Nam. It was wounded in 1968 with the spinal column and was paralysed with life. The film recalls its terrible epopée to find a direction with the life and tells us twenty years of the American history. To some extent the continuation of "Platoon" carried out with as much care and the participation of specialists in the questions in war.

Voyage au bout de l'enfer 1978 - Michael Cimino

Five workmen steelmakers face the blast furnaces of a small town of Pennsylvannie and leave together to drive out the stag.
Because it is the war in Vietnam, three of them become soldiers on the departure. Two years later, the war always prevails and the latter are found captive in a camp vietcong...

Entre Ciel et Terre 1978 - Oliver Stonelê

Ly (Hiêp Thi lê) is a young Vietnamese plunged in the storm of the war which strikes its country. Follower of the guerrilla, it is arêtée by the governmental troops, and will undergo worst physical humiliations and morals.

It flees towards Saigon or the destiny seems to be baited against it until the day or it becomes acquainted with Steve Butler, an American soldier which falls insane amourreux from it. IT wants to marry it and bring back it to the United States...

 

 

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