Best Vietnam War movies of 1980s

Actors : Adam Baldwin, Vincent D'Onofrio, Matthew Modine, R. Lee Ermey,
Directors : Stanley Kubrick,

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

Actors : Tom Cruise, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava, Josh Evans,
Directors : Oliver Stone,

The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.

Actors : Elizabeth Peña, Tim Robbins, Matt Craven, Danny Aiello,
Directors : Adrian Lyne,

Mourning his dead child, a haunted Vietnam War veteran attempts to discover his past while suffering from a severe case of dissociation. To do so, he must decipher reality and life from his own dreams, delusion, and perception of death.

Actors : Forest Whitaker, Robin Williams, Chintara Sukapatana, Tung Thanh Tran,
Directors : Barry Levinson,

In 1965, an unorthodox and irreverent DJ named Adrian Cronauer begins to shake up things when he is assigned to the U.S. Armed Services radio station in Vietnam.

Actors : Steven Berkoff, Richard Crenna, Sylvester Stallone, Charles Napier,
Directors : George P. Cosmatos,

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.

Actors : Nancy Travis, Ken Jenkins, Robert Downey Jr., Mel Gibson,
Directors : Roger Spottiswoode,

A young pilot finds himself recruited unwittingly into a covert and corrupt C.I.A. airlift organization operating in Vietnam War-era Laos.

Actors : John C. Reilly, Michael J. Fox, Sean Penn, Don Harvey,
Directors : Brian De Palma,

During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.

Actors : Pat Morita, Thomas Ian Griffith, Robyn Lively, Ralph Macchio,
Directors : John G. Avildsen,

Ostracised villain John Kreese attempts to gain revenge on Daniel and Miyagi, with the help of a Vietnam War comrade, the wealthy owner of a toxic waste disposal business.

Actors : Gregory Hines, Helen Mirren, Jerzy Skolimowski, Mikhail Baryshnikov,
Directors : Taylor Hackford,

An expatriate Russian dancer is on a plane forced to land on Soviet territory. He is taken to an apartment in which a black American who has married a Russian woman lives with her. He is to...

Actors : John Harkins, Matthew Modine, Sandy Baron, Nicolas Cage,
Directors : Alan Parker,

After two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird.

Actors : Ray Sharkey, Margot Kidder, Ronny Cox, Richard Pryor,
Directors : Michael Pressman,

A Vietnam vet returns home from a prisoner of war camp and is greeted as a hero, but is quickly forgotten and soon discovers how tough survival is in his own country.

Actors : Fred Ward, Gene Hackman, Robert Stack, Patrick Swayze,
Directors : Ted Kotcheff,

Ten years after his son went MIA in Vietnam, U.S.Marine retired Colonel Jason Rhodes assembles a private rescue team to find Americans held in POW camps in Laos.

Actors : Michael Boatman, Anthony Barrile, Don Cheadle, Michael Dolan,
Directors : John Irvin,

A very realistic interpretation of one of the bloodiest battles of the Vietnam War.

Actors : Noble Willingham, Brandon Call, Terry O'Quinn, Rutger Hauer,
Directors : Phillip Noyce,

A blind Vietnam vet, trained as a swordfighter, comes to America and helps to rescue the son of a fellow soldier.

Actors : John Heard, Jeff Bridges, Ann Dusenberry, Lisa Eichhorn,
Directors : Ivan Passer,

Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.

Actors : David Tress, Chuck Norris, Lenore Kasdorf, M. Emmet Walsh,
Directors : Joseph Zito,

Colonel Braddock launches a mission deep into the jungles of Vietnam to find the POW camp that he escaped from and free the Americans still held captive there.

Actors : Ed Harris, Kathy Baker, Robert De Niro, Sloane Shelton,
Directors : David Hugh Jones,

A conflict develops between a troubled Vietnam veteran and the sister he lives with when she becomes involved romantically with the army buddy who reminds him of the tragic battle they both...

Actors : Kevin Anderson, Bruce Willis, Emily Lloyd, Joan Allen,
Directors : Norman Jewison,

Samantha Hughes, a teenaged Kentucky girl, never knew her father, who died in Vietnam before her birth. Samantha lives with her Uncle Emmett, who also served in Vietnam. Emmett hangs around...

Actors : Anjelica Huston, D.B. Sweeney, James Earl Jones, James Caan,
Directors : Francis Ford Coppola,

A sergeant must deal with his desires to save the lives of young soldiers being sent to Vietnam. Continuously denied the chance to teach the soldiers about his experiences, he settles for trying to help the son of an old army buddy.

Actors : Jerry Reed, Gene Hackman, Danny Glover, David Marshall Grant,
Directors : Peter Markle,

During the Vietnam War, Colonel Hambleton's aircraft is shot down over enemy territory and a frantic rescue operation ensues.