Movie trailers available on Digital History for Vietnam War era

Apocalypse Now (1979)
Digital History ID 1848
Transposes Joseph Conrad's Heart of Darkness to Vietnam. A battleweary captain is sent on a secret upriver mission to execute the renegade Colonel Kurtz, who has reverted to murderous insanity.
Length of this clip: 1:43.
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Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
Digital History ID 1870
The biography of Ron Kovic, who was aralyzed in the Vietnam war, and becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
Length of this clip: 2:44.
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Casualties of War (1989)
Digital History ID 1889
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
Length of this clip: 1:53.
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Coming Home (1978)
Digital History ID 1897
A woman whose husband is fighting in Vietnam falls in love with another man who suffered a paralyzing combat injury there.
Length of this clip: 0:27.
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Dear America: Letters Home from Vietnam (1987)
Digital History ID 1991
Letters by Americans who were serving in Vietnam.
Length of this clip: 1:58.
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Deer Hunter (1978)
Digital History ID 1908
The way that the Vietnam war affects the lives of people in a small industrial town.
Length of this clip: 0:42.
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Delta Force (1986)
Digital History ID 1909
An American jetliner is hijacked by terrorists and commandos are sent to the rescue.
Length of this clip: 1:51.
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Fog of War (2003)
Digital History ID 1928
Eleven lessons from the life of Robert S. McNamara, the former Secretary of Defense.
Length of this clip: 2:01.
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Fog of War: Cuban Missile Crisis (2003)
Digital History ID 1929
Eleven lessons from the life of Robert S. McNamara, the former Secretary of Defense.
Length of this clip: 0:29.
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Fog of War: Scenepacking (2003)
Digital History ID 1930
Eleven lessons from the life of Robert S. McNamara, the former Secretary of Defense.
Length of this clip: 0:58.
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Fog of War: Vietnam (2003)
Digital History ID 1931
Eleven lessons from the life of Robert S. McNamara, the former Secretary of Defense.
Length of this clip: 0:21.
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Hamburger Hill (1987)
Digital History ID 1953
A highly realistic account of fourteen soldiers during the ten day 1969 battle for a highly fortified hill in the A Shau Valley held by the North Vietnamese.
Length of this clip: 1:22.
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Heaven and Earth (1993)
Digital History ID 1957
the story of Le Ly Hayslip's life of suffering during and after the Vietnam war.
Length of this clip: 2:33.
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Indochine (1992)
Digital History ID 1964
The relations among a French rubber plantation owner, her adopted Indochinese daughter, and a naval officer against the backdrop of the Vietnamese civil war.
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Kent State (1981)
Digital History ID 1973
Focuses on the four students who were killed when the National Guard attempted to quell protests at Kent State University in Ohio in 1970, following the U.S. incursion into Cambodia.
Length of this clip: 1:10.
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Killing Fields (1984)
Digital History ID 1975
A New York Times reporter and his Cambodian photographer cover the civil war in Cambodia.
Length of this clip: 2:24.
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Missing in Action (1984)
Digital History ID 2003
Tagline: "The war's not over until the last man comes home." Colonel James Braddock, who escaped from a POW camp, returns to Vietnam to prove Americans are still being held captive.
Length of this clip: 0:39.
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Platoon (1986)
Digital History ID 2033
Tagline: "The first casualty of war is innocence." A young recruit in Vietnam faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war.
Length of this clip: 0:31.
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Rambo First Blood (1982)
Digital History ID 2044
Abused by a small town's police force, a mentally unstable Vietnam war vet strikes back.
Length of this clip: 2:24.
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Rambo Part II (1985)
Digital History ID 2043
Tagline: "They sent him on a mission and set him up to fail. But they made one mistake. They forgot they were dealing with Rambo." Rambo is sent on a top secret mission to bring back POWs still held in Vietnam.
Length of this clip: 2:27.
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Taxi Driver (1976)
Digital History ID 2085
A mentally unstable Vietnam war veteran works as nighttime taxi driver in a city whose perceived decadence and sleaze feeds his urge to violently lash out.
Length of this clip: 3:01.
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Uncommon Valor (1983)
Digital History ID 2109
A group of Vietnam vets reunite to rescue a comrad who was taken prisoner by the Vietnamese.
Length of this clip: 1:06.
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