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Stories Set in Vietnam
Conrad upriver, Greene's Saigon, helicopter assaults and cyclo rides through Ho Chi Minh City — few landscapes carry more film history per mile. Start with these ten, then open Vietnam on StoryTerra's map.
Open Vietnam on the StoryTerra map10 famous stories set in Vietnam
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Browse 91 books, 177 movies, 3 TV shows and 13 games set in Vietnam.

Full Metal Jacket
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Apocalypse Now
At the height of the Vietnam war Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that officially "does not exist nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel…

Platoon
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.

The Deer Hunter
A group of working-class friends decide to enlist in the Army during the Vietnam War and finds it to be hellish chaos -- not the noble venture they imagined. Before they left Steven married his pregnant girlfriend --…

Rambo: First Blood Part II
John Rambo is released from prison by the government for a top-secret covert mission to the last place on Earth he'd want to return - the jungles of Vietnam.

Good Morning, Vietnam
A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops his superiors disapprove of his humour.

We Were Soldiers
The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.

The Greatest Beer Run Ever
Chickie wants to support his friends fighting in Vietnam so he does something wild—personally bring them American beer. What starts as a well-meaning journey quickly changes Chickie’s life and perspective. Based on a…

Across the Universe
When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy who joins the growing…

Born on the Fourth of July
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
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