High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Vietnam War has been the subject of many films. One of the first major films based on the Vietnam War was John Wayne`s The Green Berets (1968). Further cinematic representations were released during the 1970s and 1980s, including Michael Cimino`s The Deer Hunter (1978), Francis Ford Coppola`s Apocalypse Now (1979), Oliver Stone`s Platoon (1986) - based on his service in the U.S. Military during the Vietnam War, Stanley Kubrick`s Full Metal Jacket (1987), Hamburger Hill (1987) and Casualties of War (1989). Later films would include We Were Soldiers (2002) and Rescue Dawn (2007).