One of these films took more than a year to shoot in the jungle — a typhoon destroyed its sets, and its leading man suffered a heart attack at thirty-six. The twenty greatest films about the Vietnam War, ranked, each with its own Blanket Score.

Boot camps and battlefields, prison camps and hospital wards, a radio DJ in Saigon, a patrol boat heading up a dark river and a veteran whose nightmares follow him home: war epics, dramas, one documentary and one psychological horror — including hidden gems like Go Tell the Spartans, 84C MoPic and Rolling Thunder.

0:00 Intro
0:20 #20 — Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985) · Blanket Score 6.4
1:56 #19 — The Boys in Company C (1978) · Blanket Score 6.7
3:32 #18 — Hamburger Hill (1987) · Blanket Score 6.9
5:05 #17 — Go Tell the Spartans (1978) · Blanket Score 6.8
6:48 #16 — 84C MoPic (1989) · Blanket Score 6.9
8:34 #15 — Rolling Thunder (1977) · Blanket Score 7.0
10:11 #14 — Tigerland (2000) · Blanket Score 7.0
11:51 #13 — Da 5 Bloods (2020) · Blanket Score 7.2
13:26 #12 — Casualties of War (1989) · Blanket Score 7.3
15:01 #11 — Coming Home (1978) · Blanket Score 7.5
16:49 #10 — Jacob's Ladder (1990) · Blanket Score 7.6
18:30 #9 — Good Morning, Vietnam (1987) · Blanket Score 7.6
20:05 #8 — Born on the Fourth of July (1989) · Blanket Score 7.7
21:48 #7 — We Were Soldiers (2002) · Blanket Score 7.8
23:24 #6 — Rescue Dawn (2006) · Blanket Score 7.9
25:14 #5 — Hearts and Minds (1974) · Blanket Score 8.3
26:56 #4 — The Deer Hunter (1978) · Blanket Score 8.8
28:43 #3 — Full Metal Jacket (1987) · Blanket Score 8.9
30:29 #2 — Platoon (1986) · Blanket Score 9.0
32:20 #1 — Apocalypse Now (1979) · Blanket Score 9.1
34:05 Outro

How we score and rank every film: https://claude.ai/code/artifact/9ac5e...

If you or someone in your family served in Vietnam — which of these films came closest to the truth?

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