# Vietnam War movies from a Vietnamese POV? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 19, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vietnam-war-movies-from-a-vietnamese-pov/688714 "2014-05-19T04:33:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 4:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vietnam-war-movies-from-a-vietnamese-pov/688714/1 "2014-05-19T04:33:05Z")
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? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 4:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vietnam-war-movies-from-a-vietnamese-pov/688714/2 "2014-05-19T04:52:40Z")
There is one called [_The Cu Chi Tunnels,_](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0416668/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1) but it’s a documentary, I’m thinking drama. ---
**Author:** ![chacoguy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/50afbb/32.png) [@chacoguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chacoguy)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 5:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vietnam-war-movies-from-a-vietnamese-pov/688714/3 "2014-05-19T05:47:39Z")
[This one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gUSq7pxux4&list=WL&index=7) has some comments from the Vietnamese perspective. ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vietnam-war-movies-from-a-vietnamese-pov/688714/4 "2014-05-19T06:10:26Z")
> [@chacoguy](#): > > [This one](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8gUSq7pxux4&list=WL&index=7) has some comments from the Vietnamese perspective. But, again, a documentary. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vietnam-war-movies-from-a-vietnamese-pov/688714/5 "2014-05-19T06:17:50Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![Ibn\_Warraq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/e19b73/32.png) [@Ibn\_Warraq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ibn_Warraq)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 6:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vietnam-war-movies-from-a-vietnamese-pov/688714/6 "2014-05-19T06:20:29Z")
> [@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. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [May 19, 2014, 8:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vietnam-war-movies-from-a-vietnamese-pov/688714/7 "2014-05-19T08:03:28Z")
> [@Ibn\_Warraq](#): > > I can’t think of a single American-made WWII movie that was told from the German POV… [Cross of Iron](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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. ---
**Author:** ![bramma23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@bramma23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bramma23)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 11:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vietnam-war-movies-from-a-vietnamese-pov/688714/8 "2014-05-20T23:04:50Z")
Heaven and Earth by Oliver Stone is the closest. ---
**Author:** ![Flywheel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Flywheel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flywheel)\ **Post date:** [May 20, 2014, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vietnam-war-movies-from-a-vietnamese-pov/688714/9 "2014-05-20T23:22:28Z")
There’s that recurring segment in _Seven Psychopaths_…