Oliver Stone's 1986 war epic is widely recognized as one of the most powerful war films ever made, thanks to its raw and heart-wrenching depiction of life in the trenches during the Vietnam War.

Stacker examined all war films on IMDb and produced a wide-ranging list of the 50 best movies about the Vietnam War according to user rating.

The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, and has led filmmakers for the half-century since to reckon with its complicated legacy. These 10 ...

“The Fog of War” (2003) Not long after the turn of the century, former U.S. defense secretary and Vietnam War architect Robert S. McNamara sat for interviews with documentarian Errol Morris.

Legendary director Quentin Tarantino often speaks his mind when it comes to movies, and he declared an underrated '80s gem the best film about the Vietnam War. Tarantino got a hot start in the ...

The Vietnam War produced some of the most unforgettable films of the late 1970s and 1980s, as top Hollywood filmmakers like Kubrick, Coppola, Oliver Stone and others grappled with its painful legacy.

17:32, Tue, Aug 5, 2025 Updated: 17:33, Tue, Aug 5, 2025 A lesser-known Vietnam war film is hailed by fans as the best and "most realistic" movie about the conflict ever. 84 Charlie Mopic (1989 ...

Military history professor Bill Allison rates more Vietnam War movies, such as "Forrest Gump," for realism. Allison breaks down additional battlefield tactics used by the Viet Cong, or VC, and ...

In the first decade totally free of parochial content restrictions yet plagued by nightmares of the Vietnam War, movies changed forever in the 1970s. After foreign filmmakers ruled the 1960s, a ...

Letter: How can ‘We Were Soldiers’ be left off war movies list? It's vivid and heart-stopping I’m a Vietnam veteran, and for me, this movie is an accurate historical drama about the early ...

The 1980s saw a wave of Hollywood films about Vietnam, including “First Blood,” “Hamburger Hill,” “Good Morning Vietnam,” “Casualties of War” and “Born on the Fourth of July.” ...

The Vietnam War produced some of the most unforgettable films of the late 1970s and 1980s, as top Hollywood filmmakers like Kubrick, Coppola, Oliver Stone and others grappled with its painful legacy.