Vietnam War movies from a Vietnamese POV?

[BrainGlutton]

It was their war, after all, and they did most of the dying. I’d like to see Hollywood make a Vietnam War movie where all the main characters are Vietnamese – VC, NV, ARVN – and the Americans are only background characters (like Vietnamese are in most Vietnam War movies made to date in Hollywood). Are there any such?

[BrainGlutton]

There is one called The Cu Chi Tunnels, but it’s a documentary, I’m thinking drama.

[chacoguy]

This one has some comments from the Vietnamese perspective.

[BrainGlutton]

@chacoguy

This one has some comments from the Vietnamese perspective.

But, again, a documentary.

[Oakminster]

Sounds like a recipe for a box office disaster. War films are expensive to make, and are likely to be hard to sell to an American audience if they don’t focus on American characters.

[Ibn_Warraq]

@Oakminster

Sounds like a recipe for a box office disaster. War films are expensive to make, and are likely to be hard to sell to an American audience if they don’t focus on American characters.

Agreed.

I can’t think of a single American-made WWII movie that was told from the German POV and other than Letters from Iwo Jima none from the Japanese perspective.

[Shakester]

@Ibn_Warraq

I can’t think of a single American-made WWII movie that was told from the German POV…

Cross of Iron

(Yes, the wiki says “British-German”, but Sam Peckinpah was very much an American director.)

ETA: Though, of course, the Germans’ enemies in the film are Soviets, not Americans.

[bramma23]

Heaven and Earth by Oliver Stone is the closest.

[Flywheel]

There’s that recurring segment in Seven Psychopaths…