| Year | Country | Title | Director | Events depicted |
| 1964 | US | A Yank in Viet-Nam | Marshall Thompson | A USMC pilot is shot down, but meets a female guerrilla; filmed in South Vietnam |
| 1966 | US | To the Shores of Hell | Will Zens | A USMC officer leads a rescue attempt of his brother who is held prisoner by the Viet Cong |
| 1968 | US | The Green Berets | John Wayne,
Ray Kellogg | A tribute to U.S. Special Forces, starring John Wayne, filmed mostly in Georgia |
| 1970 | US | The Losers | Jack Starrett | An American motorcycle gang is recruited for a mission into Cambodia |
| 1971 | South Vietnam | :vi:Đất khổ|Đất khổ | Ha Thuc Can | - |
| 1971 | South Vietnam | :vi:Người tình không chân dung|Người tình không chân dung | Hoàng Vĩnh Lộc | - |
| 1972 | US | The Visitors | Elia Kazan | A story of a Vietnam War veteran who is confronted by two other members of his platoon. |
| 1972 | North Vietnam | :vi:Vĩ tuyến 17 ngày và đêm|Vĩ tuyến 17 ngày và đêm | Hải Ninh | Life of Vietnamese living on both sides of the 17th parallel that splits Vietnam into North and South |
| 1974 | US | There Is No 13 | William Sachs | Surrealist cinema based film involving a young Vietnam War soldier reminiscing about twelve love affairs with the cinematography ending before the subject of the thirteenth romance |
| 1975 | North Vietnam | Girl from Hanoi | Hải Ninh | Operation Linebacker II |
| 1978 | Hong Kong, US | The Boys in Company C | Sidney J. Furie | A group of Marines go through basic training and a tour of service in Vietnam in 1968 |
| 1978 | US | Go Tell the Spartans | Ted Post | US military advisers during the early part of the war |
| 1978 | US, UK | The Deer Hunter | Michael Cimino | Three friends from Pennsylvania go off to fight, and come back changed men |
| 1979 | Australia | The Odd Angry Shot | Tom Jeffrey | Follows a group of Australian soldiers in Vietnam |
| 1979 | Vietnam | | Nguyễn Hồng Sến | An "unnerving and compelling.. subjective-camera-eye-view" of life under helicopter fire in the Mekong Delta. The film cuts to an "helicopter-eye view", contrasting painfully with the human tenderness seen earlier. |
| 1979 | US | Apocalypse Now | Francis Ford Coppola | A special forces officer is called in to locate and kill a rogue colonel in a retelling of Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness |
| 1980 | Italy | The Last Hunter | Antonio Margheriti | Set in 1973, a US officer goes on a dangerous mission behind enemy lines to blow up an enemy propaganda radio station |
| 1981 | UK | How Sleep the Brave | Lyndon James Swift | A group of new soldiers go on a mission in the jungle |
| 1982 | Vietnam | :vi:Ván bài lật ngửa|Ván bài lật ngửa | Lê Hoàng Hoa | Biopic of the North Vietnamese spy Pham Ngoc Thao |
| 1983 | US | Streamers | Robert Altman | Four soldiers awaiting deployment to Vietnam |
| 1984 | US | Purple Hearts | Sidney J. Furie | Love story between a surgeon and a nurse who are serving in the U.S. Navy during the war |
| 1985 | Vietnam, USSR | Coordinates of Death
| Samvel Gasparov,
Suan Tian Nguyen | Stranded Soviet sailors witness American war brutality |
| 1985 | US | ' | Lance Hool | U.S. POW breaks out of Vietnamese prison camp. |
| 1986 | US | Platoon | Oliver Stone | A new recruit's service in a platoon of soldiers patrolling the Cambodian border |
| 1987 | US, Philippines | Eye of the Eagle | Cirio H. Santiago | US officer hunts down rogue G.I.s. |
| 1987 | US | Gardens of Stone | Francis Ford Coppola | Set in 1968-1969, James Caan plays the frustrated sergeant in charge of the Arlington National Cemetery ceremonial guard. |
| 1987 | UK, US | Full Metal Jacket | Stanley Kubrick | Battle of Hue
Tet Offensive |
| 1987 | US | Hamburger Hill | John Irvin | Battle of Hamburger Hill in the Ashau Valley |
| 1987 | US | Good Morning, Vietnam | Barry Levinson | Loosely based on the experiences of AFRS radio DJ Adrian Cronauer |
| 1988 | US | Off Limits | Christopher Crowe | Two US Criminal Investigation Command agents investigate murders of Vietnamese prostitutes by high-ranking US officers |
| 1988 | US | Platoon Leader | Aaron Norris | An inexperienced officer learns the ropes of fighting in Vietnam |
| 1988 | US | Bat*21 | Peter Markle | Lt. Col. Iceal Hambleton's experience of survival while MIA |
| 1988 | US | 1969 | Ernest Thompson | The film deals with the Vietnam War and the resulting social tensions between those who support and oppose the war in small-town America. |
| 1989 | US | The Iron Triangle | Eric Weston | Viet Cong soldier protects captured GI who spared his life |
| 1989 | US, Philippines | The Siege of Firebase Gloria | Brian Trenchard-Smith | Marines defend a firebase during the Tet offensive |
| 1989 | US | 84C MoPic | Patrick Sheane Duncan | Found footage-style mockumentary follows a US Long-range reconnaissance patrol |
| 1989 | Philippines, US | ' | Carl Franklin | US soldier goes to rescue Vietnamese girlfriend who has been kidnapped by superior officer |
| 1989 | US | The Expendables | Cirio H. Santiago | Commando trains a group of misfit soldiers for dangerous mission |
| 1989 | US | Casualties of War | Brian De Palma | The incident on Hill 192 |
| 1989 | Hong Kong | A Better Tomorrow 3 | Tsui Hark | A crime story involving the struggle of Chinese mobsters and their family trying to get back to Hong Kong during the fall of Saigon. |
| 1989 | US | Born on the Fourth of July | Oliver Stone | Based on the experiences of Ron Kovic, who joined the Marines and was wounded and paralyzed in Vietnam. Upon his return to the US, he evolves into a significant activist against the war. |
| 1990 | US | Air America | Roger Spottiswoode | Air America pilots uncover U.S. plot to smuggle narcotics |
| 1990 | Hong Kong | Bullet in the Head | John Woo | Hong Kong mobsters travel to Vietnam during the war to smuggle illegal goods. They get entangled with both sides in the war. |
| 1991 | US | Flight of the Intruder | John Milius | A-6 Intruder pilots go on an unauthorized mission to bomb targets in North Vietnam |
| 1991 | US | Dogfight | Nancy Savoca | Dogfight shows the last night of several marines in San Francisco, before they are send to the Vietnam war. Only a short scene of the war itself is shown, where several of the Marines die. Later one marine gets back to San Francisco, where he realises that everything has changed, even the behaviour of the society towards the Marines. |
| 1991 | US | For the Boys | Mark Rydell | Bette Midler and James Caan portray two USO artists who entertain the troops and experience turmoil |
| 1992 | South Korea | White Badge | Chung Ji-young | Story of two South Koreans who served in Vietnam |
| 1993 | US, France | Heaven & Earth | Oliver Stone | Based on the experiences of Vietnamese civilian Le Ly Hayslip of the Vietnam war and its aftermath. |
| 1994 | US | Forrest Gump | Robert Zemeckis | Title character serves in Vietnam |
| 1995 | US | The Walking Dead | Preston A. Whitmore II | In the waning days of the war, a group of Marines are sent to rescue US POWs |
| 1995 | US | Operation Dumbo Drop | Simon Wincer | Green Berets bribe Vietnamese villagers with an elephant |
| 1995 | US | Dead Presidents | Albert Hughes | Characters serve in Vietnam |
| 2000 | US, Germany | Tigerland | Joel Schumacher | US recruits go through basic training before going to Vietnam |
| 2002 | US, Germany | We Were Soldiers | Randall Wallace | Battle of Ia Drang |
| 2003 | Vietnam | :vi:Hà Nội 12 ngày đêm|Hà Nội 12 ngày đêm | Bùi Đình Hạc | Operation Linebacker II |
| 2003 | South Korea | The Classic | Kwak Jae-yong | A romantic movie set in 1968. Joon-ha joins the South Korean Army and goes to Vietnam. |
| 2004 | South Korea | R-Point | Kong Su-chang | South Korean unit is sent out to find missing platoon in this horror film |
| 2008 | South Korea | Sunny | Lee Joon-ik | Wife of South Korean serving in Vietnam takes job as singer to be near her husband |
| 2008 | Canada, US, Germany | Tunnel Rats | Uwe Boll | U.S. "Tunnel rats" who go into Viet Cong tunnel complexes |
| 2009 | Canada, US, Germany | 21 and a Wake-Up | Chris McIntyre | The film focuses on real people McIntyre knew in the Marines, as well as experiences of Dr. Marvin Wayne, renowned and decorated physician at the 24th Evac in its final year. |
| 2012 | Australia | The Sapphires | Wayne Blair | The Sapphires is about four indigenous Australian women, Gail, Julie, Kay and Cynthia, who are discovered by a talent scout, and form a music group named The Sapphires, travelling to Vietnam in 1968 to sing for troops during the war. |
| 2013 | Japan | Number Ten Blues | Norio Osada | Saigon in February 1975, during the final stage of the Vietnam War, there is another story of love and violence. Japanese businessman Sugimoto accidentally kills a Vietnamese man. |
| 2014 | South Korea | Ode to My Father | Yoon Je-kyoon | The main character and his best friend serve in the Vietnam War. |
| 2017 | US | The Post | Steven Spielberg | Set in the early 1970s, The Post depicts the true story of attempts by journalists at the Washington Post to publish the Pentagon Papers, classified documents regarding the 30-year involvement of the United States government in the Vietnam War. |
| 2019 | Australia | | Kriv Stenders | Battle of Long Tan in August 1966. |
| 2020 | US | Da 5 Bloods | Spike Lee | |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Events depicted |
| 1965 | US | Motorpsycho | Russ Meyer | A US motorcycle gang is led by a disturbed veteran |
| 1968 | US | Targets | Peter Bogdanovich | A disturbed Vietnam veteran goes on a sniper shooting spree after killing his wife and mother |
| 1972 | US | The Visitors | Elia Kazan | Vietnam veterans confront each other over war crime |
| 1973 | US | Forced Entry | Shaun Costello | An unnamed and psychotic Vietnam War veteran who returns from the Vietnam War sexually assaults and kills random women who stop at the filling station where he works as an gas station attendant |
| 1974 | Canada | Deathdream | Bob Clark | War veteran returns home as a living corpse |
| 1976 | US | Taxi Driver | Martin Scorsese | A mentally disturbed Vietnam veteran comes to New York City after the war, and gets a job driving taxicabs due to insomnia. He is unable to fit into society, displays obsessive behavior, and is driven to violence |
| 1976 | US | Zebra Force | Joe Tornatore | The film is about a group of Vietnam War veterans who declare war on Los Angeles drug dealers and the Mafia. |
| 1977 | US | Heroes | Jeremy Kagan | Amnesiac Vietnam veteran seeks out former comrades |
| 1977 | US | Rolling Thunder | John Flynn | A returning Vietnam veteran loses his family to a violent home invasion, and decides to seek and retaliate against those responsible. |
| 1978 | US | Coming Home | Hal Ashby | Homecoming of a Vietnam veteran |
| 1978 | US | Big Wednesday | John Milius | 3 surfer friends face the draft in 1965, one serves in Vietnam and they reunite in the early 1970s |
| 1980 | US | The Exterminator | James Glickenhaus | Vietnam veteran turns vigilante |
| 1980 | US | The Stunt Man | Richard Rush | Vietnam veteran stumbles on a movie set and takes a job as a stunt man to hide out from police |
| 1982 | US | First Blood | Ted Kotcheff | John Rambo, a highly decorated special forces veteran traumatized by his experiences as a prisoner of war, goes on a rampage in a northwestern U.S. town against law enforcement officers who push him too far. |
| 1983 | US | Americana | David Carradine | A down on his luck, former Green Beret captain, freshly discharged from the Vietnam War, drifts into Drury, Kansas. |
| 1985 | US | Alamo Bay | David Carradine | Alamo Bay is a 1985 drama film about a Vietnam veteran who clashes with Vietnamese immigrants who move to his fictitious Texas bay hometown. |
| 1986 | US | Combat Shock | Buddy Giovinazzo | Vietnam veteran goes insane |
| 1987 | Hong Kong | Eastern Condors | Sammo Hung | Lieutenant Colonel Lam is an American army officer given a top-secret mission by the US military. The mission entails entering Vietnam to destroy an old American bunker filled with missiles before the Viet Cong can get to them. |
| 1988 | US | ' | Aaron Norris | Vietnam vet goes back to Vietnam to rescue left behind wife and child |
| 1988 | US | Above the Law | Andrew Davis | The main character was recruited into the CIA by Special Agent Nelson Fox and was involved in covert operations on the Vietnamese-Cambodian border during the Vietnam War. |
| 1989 | US | Jacknife | David Jones | Vietnam veterans have trouble adjusting to civilian life |
| 1989 | US | In Country | Norman Jewison | Daughter of deceased Vietnam vet explores her father's past through her uncle, also a vet |
| 1990 | US | Jacob's Ladder | Adrian Lyne | Vietnam vet is haunted by his past |
| 1991 | US | McBain | James Glickenhaus | Vietnam veterans reunite to depose a Colombian dictator |
| 1992 | US | Universal Soldier | Roland Emmerich | The film tells the story of Luc Deveraux, a former U.S. Army soldier who was killed in the Vietnam War in 1969, and returned to life following a secret military project called the "Universal Soldier" program. |
| 2001 | US | Spy Game | Tony Scott | |
| 2007 | US | American Gangster | Ridley Scott | The film is fictionally based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, before being detained by a task force led by detective Richie Roberts. |
| 2009 | US | Watchmen | Zack Snyder | Some characters are Vietnam War veterans. |
| 2009 | US | ' | Gavin Hood | The main character is a Vietnam War veteran. |
| 2014 | South Korea | Obsessed | Kim Dae-woo | South Korean erotic romance film written and directed by Kim Dae-woo, about a couple having a passionate affair in a military camp under tight surveillance in 1969. |
| 2017 | US | | Jordan Vogt-Roberts | An expedition to Skull Island was made by a US recon team to explore the odd island. |
| 2017 | US | The Foreigner | Martin Campbell | Ngoc Minh Quan, a former Chinese Vietnam War US special forces operator turned London restaurateur, who looks for revenge after his daughter is killed in a bombing. |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Events depicted |
| 1981 | Hong Kong | The Story of Woo Viet | Ann Hui | The story centers on the character Woo Viet, who wants to leave his country Vietnam behind and start over in the United States. |
| 1982 | Hong Kong | Boat People | Ann Hui | The Fall of Saigon and its aftermath |
| 1984 | UK | The Killing Fields | Roland Joffé | The Killing Fields is a 1984 British biographical drama film about the Khmer Rouge regime in Cambodia, which is based on the experiences of two journalists: Cambodian Dith Pran and American Sydney Schanberg. |
| 1992 | Australia | Turtle Beach | Stephen Wallace | Judith, an Australian photojournalist, leaves her family to cover the story of Vietnamese boat people in a Malaysian refugee camp. There she befriends Minou, a Vietnamese streetwalker, who has married a diplomat and together they try to bring awareness to the terrible conditions suffered by the people there. |
| 2001 | US | Green Dragon | Timothy Linh Bui | The experiences of Vietnamese refugees in the United States immediately following the end of the war |
| 2004 | US | The Beautiful Country | Hans Petter Moland | A Vietnamese boy goes to the US to search for his father, an American ex-soldier |
| 2005 | Vietnam | Sống trong sợ hãi | Bùi Thạc Chuyên | A Vietnamese farmer is supporting two families after the end of the war - one in the north, which he abandoned after fleeing during the war, and his new family in the south. To get enough money he sets on to re-cultivate a field full of mines. His life and psyche is changing while he removes each mine by himself. |
| 2007 | US | Journey from the Fall | Ham Tran | Vietnamese experience of post-war re-education camps and life as refugees |
| 2014 | France, Belgium, Cambodia | The Gate | Régis Wargnier | The Gate is a 2014 French-Belgian-Cambodian drama film directed by Régis Wargnier, based on the books by François Bizot. |
| 2017 | Cambodia, US | First They Killed My Father | Angelina Jolie | First They Killed My Father is a 2017 Cambodian–American Khmer biographical historical thriller film directed by Angelina Jolie and written by Jolie and Loung Ung, based on Ung's memoir of the same name. Set in 1975, the film depicts 7-year-old Ung who is forced to be trained as a child soldier while her siblings are sent to labor camps during the Communist Khmer Rouge regime. |
| Year | Country | Title | Director | Events depicted |
| 1965 | Canada | ' | Beryl Fox | Various scenes from the war, appearance by Bernard B. Fall |
| 1967 | France | The Anderson Platoon | Pierre Schoendoerffer | Follows a deployed US infantry platoon in Vietnam. |
| 1967 | France | Far from Vietnam | Joris Ivens, William Klein, Claude Lelouch, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Chris Marker and Alain Resnais | |
| 1968 | US | A Face of War | Eugene S. Jones | Day-to-day activities of active duty Marines. |
| 1969 | US | In the Year of the Pig | Emile de Antonio | History of the war. |
| 1970 | US | Street Scenes | Martin Scorsese | Follows two demonstrations against the war, interviews with participants and bystanders. |
| 1970 | US | The World of Charlie Company | John Laurence | Follows US troops of Charlie Company, 2nd Battalion, 7th Cavalry Regiment, of the 1st Cavalry Division. |
| 1971 | US | Vietnam!, Vietnam! | Sherman Beck | A United States Information Agency film, narrated by Charlton Heston, was shot on location in Vietnam in October–December 1968 but not released until 1971. |
| 1972 | US | Winter Soldier | | Follows the Winter Soldier Investigation. |
| 1974 | US | Hearts and Minds | Peter Davis | Interviews with Americans and Vietnamese. |
| 1979 | UK | ' | David Munro | The war in Cambodia and its aftermath under the rule of the Khmer Rouge. |
| 1980 | Canada | '
| Michael Maclear
| History of the conflict from the First Indochina War to the Fall of Saigon. |
| 1982 | US | The Uncounted Enemy | George Crile III
| The film alleges that general William Westmoreland presented false numbers of enemy combatants to the US public. |
| 1983 | US | '
| | Based on Karnow's book '. |
| 1987 | US | ' | Bill Couturié | Based on letters from US soldiers serving in Vietnam. |
| 1989 | UK | Four Hours in My Lai
| | My Lai Massacre. |
| 1990 | US | Berkeley in the Sixties | Mark Kitchell | Anti-war protesters at Berkeley University. |
| 1995 | UK | ' | David Munro | Review of the history of Vietnam of the two decades since the end of the war |
| 1997 | Germany, UK, France | Little Dieter Needs to Fly | Werner Herzog | Documents Dieter Dengler's experience as a POW in North Vietnam, and his escape. |
| 1998 | US | Regret to Inform | Barbara Sonneborn | The director, a US war widow, goes to Vietnam to explore the loss of her husband. |
| 1999 | Vietnam | The Sound of the Violin in My Lai | Tran Van Thuy | My Lai Massacre |
| 2001 | The Netherlands | First Kill | Coco Schrijber | The psychology of war is explored through interviews with Vietnam veterans. |
| 2001 | US | ' | Bestor Cram, Mike Majoros | Follows a three-day protest against the war in Lexington, Massachusetts over Memorial Day weekend in 1971, staged by newly returned war veterans. |
| 2001 | US | Investigation of a Flame | Lynne Sachs | Story of the Catonsville Nine, Catholic activists who burned draft files in 1968 to protest against the war. |
| 2002 | US | Daughter from Danang | Gail Dolgin, Vicente Franco | US woman, daughter of US soldier and Vietnamese woman goes to Vietnam to meet her biological relatives. |
| 2003 | US | The Fog of War | Errol Morris | Interview with Robert S. McNamara, US Secretary of Defense during the war. |
| 2004 | US | In the Shadow of the Blade | Patrick Fries,
Cheryl Fries | Huey helicopter on cross-US tour reunites veterans and veterans' relatives. |
| 2004 | US | Stolen Honor | Carlton Sherwood | The film connects the testimony of John Kerry with increased mistreatment of US POWs. |
| 2004 | US | Going Upriver | George Butler | U.S. Senator John Kerry's military service and his subsequent participation in the anti-war movement. |
| 2005 | France | Enemy Image | Mark Daniels | Examines the impact of televised war reporting, starting with the relatively unrestricted reporting during the Vietnam War. |
| 2005 | US | Sir! No Sir! | David Zeiger | Anti-war sentiments within the US armed forces. |
| 2006 | Australia | The Battle of Long Tan | Damien Lay | 108 young and mostly inexperienced Australian and New Zealand soldiers fight for survival against an overwhelming enemy force of 2,500. |
| 2007 | US | The Camden 28 | Anthony Giacchino | Follows twenty-eight members of the Catholic Left who were arrested in 1971 for attempting to break into and vandalize a draft board. |
| 2007 | US | Bomb Harvest | Kim Mordaunt | Aftermath of the bombing of Laos during the war, the problem of large amounts of Unexploded Ordnance in the country. |
| 2008 | US | Between the Lines | Scott Bass, Ty Ponder | The impact of the war on US surfing culture |
| 2009 | US | | Judith Ehrlich, Rick Goldsmith | About Daniel Ellsberg and his leaking of the Pentagon Papers, a secret US government history of the war. |
| 2011 | US | Vietnam in HD
| Sammy Jackson | Better known as the Vietnam Lost Films is a six part documentary of thirteen Americans confronting their experience of war in Vietnam. |
| 2012 | US | Into Harm's Way | Jordan Kronick | West Point Class of 1967 and their experiences during college and in the Vietnam War. |
| 2014 | US | Last Days in Vietnam | Rory Kennedy | About the evacuation of American and South Vietnamese Citizens. |
| 2017 | US | The Vietnam War | Ken Burns and Lynn Novick | History of the war from the anti-colonial struggle against the French to the exit of the Americans in 1973. |
