Best Vietnam War movies of 1970s

Actors : Frederic Forrest, Robert Duvall, Marlon Brando, Martin Sheen,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

During the Vietnam War, Captain Willard is sent on a dangerous mission into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade colonel who has set himself up as a god among a local tribe.

Actors : Albert Brooks, Robert De Niro, Cybill Shepherd, Jodie Foster,
Directors : Martin Scorsese,

A mentally unstable Vietnam War veteran works as a night-time taxi driver in New York City where the perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge for violent action, while attempting to save a preadolescent prostitute in the process.

Actors : John Savage, John Cazale, Christopher Walken, Robert De Niro,
Directors : Michael Cimino,

An in-depth examination of the ways in which the U.S. Vietnam War impacts and disrupts the lives of people in a small industrial town in Pennsylvania.

Actors : John Savage, Annie Golden, Treat Williams, Beverly D'Angelo,
Directors : Milos Forman,

Claude Bukowski leaves the family ranch in Oklahoma for New York where he is rapidly embraced into the hippie group of youngsters led by Berger, yet he's already been drafted. He soon falls in love with Sheila Franklin, a rich girl but still a rebel inside.

Actors : Charles Bronson, Al Lettieri, Lee Purcell, Linda Cristal,
Directors : Richard Fleischer,

A melon farmer battles organized crime and a hit man who wants to kill him.

Actors : Penelope Milford, Bruce Dern, Jon Voight, Jane Fonda,
Directors : Hal Ashby,

A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there.

Actors : John Marley, Henderson Forsythe, Lynn Carlin, Richard Backus,
Directors : Bob Clark,

A young man killed in Vietnam inexplicably returns home as a zombie.

Actors : Paul Le Mat, Bo Hopkins, Ron Howard, Candy Clark,
Directors : Bill Norton,

College graduates deal with Vietnam and other issues of the late '60s.

Actors : Nick Nolte, Anthony Zerbe, Michael Moriarty, Tuesday Weld,
Directors : Karel Reisz,

Vietnam veteran Ray Hicks gets conned into helping his buddy John Converse smuggle some heroin, only to wind up on the lam with John's wife when the deal goes sour.

Actors : Anne Archer, Lloyd Haynes, Chuck Norris, James Franciscus,
Directors : Ted Post,

An ex-US Army commando must find the reason why his comrades from his unit are being systematically murdered before he is next.

Actors : Jonathan Goldsmith, Burt Lancaster, Marc Singer, Craig Wasson,
Directors : Ted Post,

During the early 1960s, U.S. military advisers in South Vietnam discover the same challenges that plagued the French army in Indochina ten years prior.

Actors : Candice Bergen, Richard Widmark, Gene Hackman, Mickey Rooney,
Directors : Stanley Kramer,

Tucker is a chronic underachiever and a loser. A Vietnam war veteran who just can't seem to keep out of trouble, in the years since his discharge. The only thing he got out of the war was ...

Actors : Tony King, Carl Lee, Paul Winfield, David Downing,
Directors : Ossie Davis,

Four Vietnam Vets go to war against the drug dealers and pimps of Harlem.

Actors : Bryan Brown, John Hargreaves, John Jarratt, Graham Kennedy,
Directors : Tom Jeffrey,

In between drinking cans of Fosters beer, Australian soldiers tread on a few landmines, and generally experience the war in Vietnam.

Actors : Tony King, Tisa Farrow, David Warbeck, Bobby Rhodes,
Directors : Antonio Margheriti,

During the Vietnam war, an American soldier gets trapped behind enemy lines. A squad of his buddies sets out to rescue him.

Actors : Richard Farnsworth, Matt Clark, Dirk Benedict, Linda Blair,
Directors : Max Kleven,

Kyle Hanson is a Vietnam veteran whose traumatic war-time experiences have left him unable to rejoin mainstream society. When Kyle, unkempt and in dirty fatigues, stops in a small town for ...

Actors : Haskell V. Anderson III, Mike Thomas, Roy Jefferson, Le Tari,
Directors : Bill Berry,

A group of black Vietnam vets go up against the Ku Klux Klan.

Actors : Gino Franco, Harry Northup, Peter Fonda, Philip Carey,
Directors : Jonathan Demme,

An Arkansas farmer stages a one-man war against corrupt land developers who want to evict him and his neighbors from their farms for real estate developments.

Actors : William Smith, Michael Haynes, Peter Brown, Tony Young,
Directors : Lee Frost,

A Green Beret returns home from the Vietnam war to find that a gang of murderous bikers has killed his fiancee. He calls on several of his Green Beret buddies to come and help him take revenge on the gang.

Actors : José Ferrer, James Wainwright, Broderick Crawford, Michael Parks,
Directors : Larry Cohen,

The story of the late J. Edgar Hoover, who was head of the FBI from 1924-1972. The film follows Hoover from his racket-busting days through his reign under eight U.S. presidents.