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Hollywood had passably much pay up on cook picture about the Vietnam War by the time the 1980s rolled around , but the mid - to - late ‘ 80s gave style to a new wave of Vietnam War film . The seventies saw the release of a bunch of classic Vietnam - based war motion-picture show , fromComing HometoRolling Thunder . Apocalypse NowandThe Deer Hunterwere consider to be the peak of the writing style . After Francis Ford Coppola ’s gonzo , surrealHeart of Darknessepic and Michael Cimino ’s shocking test of the psychological wallop of warfare , there seemed to be no point in trying to make a fresh Vietnam War movie , because they already perfected it .
However , when material - life veteran Oliver Stone turned his own experience from Vietnam intoPlatoon , andPlatoonbecame a collision , it led to a new Vietnam War movie boom in the ‘ 80 . far-famed filmmakers like Stanley Kubrick and Brian De Palma threw their hat in the ring with their own cinematic depictions of the horrors of the Vietnam War . Even Stone himself cash in in on this movement asPlatoonbecame the first chapter in a Vietnam War trilogy . FromFull Metal JackettoGood Morning , Vietnam , some of the greatest movies about the Vietnam War were released long after the war ’s terminal in the ‘ 80 .
7Hamburger Hill
John Irvin, 1987
With a rare 100 % approval military rank on Rotten Tomatoes , Hamburger Hillis one of the most highly acclaimed war flick ever made . The moving-picture show dramatizes the Battle of Hamburger Hill from 1969 and isessentially a feature of speech - length battle aspect . Rather than trying to conduct the scope of the intact war , Hamburger Hillfocuses on one specific platoon to personalize its portrait of the battle in Vietnam . The maven - dot ensemble lineament such famed actors as Don Cheadle , Dylan McDermott , and Courtney B. Vance , and director John Irvin does a howling job of prove the devastation of war through their characters ’ traumatized heart .
6Born On The Fourth Of July
Oliver Stone, 1989
The life floor of Ron Kovic , covered in the biopicBorn on the Fourth of July , isa poignant microcosm of the injustices of the Vietnam War . Kovic grew up as a jingoistic young patriot who could n’t expect to link the Marines , but when he was paralyzed in the Vietnam War , he returned to the United States and became a staunch anti - war protester . Tom Cruise gives one of the most underrated performancesof his full career as Kovic , earning his first Oscar nomination for Best Actor . The revulsion of warfare are dead encapsulate in the report of a man who loved his area until they get off him to fight down overseas .
5First Blood
Ted Kotcheff, 1982
TheRambosequelswent on to glorify warfare with their victorious tale of John Rambo going behind foe line to liberate P.O.W.s , but the first movie – adapted from David Morrell ’s original novel , First Blood – wasan incisive critique of America ’s treatment of Vietnam War veterans . When a crooked small - town sheriff pushes Rambo to his breaking dot , Rambo takes his entire constabulary military group and the National Guard on a wild goose chase through the neighboring timber . First Bloodcondemns everything from the discharge of returning Vietnam ex-serviceman to the many deaths that occur as a result of vulnerability to Agent Orange .
4Casualties Of War
Brian De Palma, 1989
When Brian De Palma branch out from his traditional Hitchcockian thrillers in the mid-1980s , he seek his hired man at the warfare genre withCasualties of War . casualty of Warisn’t about the difference of opinion between the force of America and the Viet Cong;it ’s about the conflicts amongst the American soldier themselves . The floor is base on the 1966 incident on Hill 192 , in which a Vietnamese char was abducted , sexually assaulted , and murdered by a squad of American soldiery . Sean Penn give a shocking performance as the squad ’s remorseless , reprehensible ringleader , while Michael J. Fox play their conflicted associate with a conscience .
3Good Morning, Vietnam
Barry Levinson, 1987
Whereas most Vietnam War movies focus on the awful brutality and bloodshed of the conflict , Good Morning , Vietnamis a comedy set amidst the state of war . Robin Williams stars as real - animation radio DJ Adrian Cronauer , whose zany broadcasts keep the troops ’ spirits up throughout their inspection and repair . Williams walks the line between laugh - out - loud hilarity and dear dramatic event in the path that only he can , earning an Oscar nomination for Best Actor with his sincere portrayal of a wartime entertainer . Good Morning , Vietnamdoesn’t timid away from showing the horrors of war , butit concentre on the power of bodily fluid in times of crisis .
2Full Metal Jacket
Stanley Kubrick, 1987
free-base on state of war newswriter Gustav Hasford ’s novelThe Short - Timers , Full Metal Jacketis Stanley Kubrick ’s in darkness comedic takeon the Vietnam War . Much like inDr . Strangelove , Kubrick uses his satirical brain to point out the fatuousness of warfare itself . Kubrick embrace the intact Vietnam War experience , with the first one-half of the film taking station in a grueling charge pack and the second one-half sending its agonist to fight in Vietnam . Matthew Modine takes the audience on a tragic journeying into a warzone , eroding his sense of humour , and substantial - aliveness drill police sergeant R. Lee Ermey gives one of the most memorable functioning in movie history as Gunnery Sergeant Hartman .
1Platoon
Oliver Stone, 1986
After feeling disenchant with the whitewashed variation of the Vietnam War he discover in moving picture like the ballyhoo artist John Wayne vehicleThe Green Berets , Oliver Stone set out to show audience the conflict as he remembered it from his own experience in Vietnam . Stone is one of the fewHollywood filmmaker to have actually suffice in the warhe was portraying on - screen , and it resulted in a excruciating warfare movie like no other . Platoonhas one of the most realistic portrayals of the Vietnam War – and of warfare in general – because it ’s a first - hand history based on honest experiences on the battlefield .
Platoonrevolves around the wartime experiences of a U.S. Army Tennessean named Chris Taylor , a rack - in for Stone himself ( and for the American everyman who was shipped off to fight in Vietnam ) , played by Charlie Sheen . Throughout the film , Taylor is torn between his Platoon Sergeant and his Squad Leader , played by Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe severally , who argue over the ethics of their platoon and the war they ’re struggle in . This is n’t just a spunky , splanchnic portrayal of the Vietnam War ; it ’s an ethical geographic expedition of the conflict itself . It ’s no wonder it advance the Academy Award for Best Picture .
