Approved. Combat vet myself. This was my dads favorite Nam film. He was an actual bush Vet in Nam that was wounded. He told us this was his favorite and the most realistic. This movie also didnt hold back on the insanity of Nam with the real Hamburger Hill where friendly fire took place. First Blood is another very realistic film concerning Veteran homelessness, discrimination, and PTSD. Ending of that is 100% on point. "You dont just turn it off!"
Hamburger Hill has always been my favorite Vietnam war movie, hands down. Saw it way too young, but it left a lasting impression on me. Happy to see you covering it and giving it the love it deserves.
Saw it young and am thankful for it. Showed the reality of war in which few movies did at the time. Grateful for the reality portrayed, grateful my parents werent woke!
Same, watched it in my teens but have watched several time since. The sound track is epic (and should have been worthy of mention), especially with them fighting up the hill multiple times only to return defeated until the end.
My father & I took my Vietnam War veteran grandfather to Washington D.C. several years ago for the 1st time for him to see The Vietnam War Memorial Wall. He was drafted in the late 1960s & he got injured by shrapnel from a land mine (in addition to getting shot), so he got sent home & received a Purple Heart. However, 6 of his buddies didn't make it back home, so before the trip he made a list of all of their names & where they were located on The Wall. As he found each on the wall, he got very emotional knowing that he managed to come home (though injured), get married, have 3 sons, & live another 50 years, but 6 of his friends didn't.
🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡 Thank you for your father’s and his friends’ service. I’m sorry for his loss. My uncle served in Vietnam after emigrating from Ecuador. He lost many friends also. He made it home and is still alive. I also visited the wall and was overwhelmed with the amount of names and the size of the panels. I lost my composure quickly and shed many tears for men and women I never knew. 🫡🫡🫡🫡🫡
It’s based on a true story and while names and some locations have been changed it basically sticks with the facts. Not only did the young girl dies that day but justice did as well, the longest sentence any of them served for their horrific crime was just short of three years.
@peterbuckley3877 the first time i watched the film,i could not believe such a travesty of justice had taken place. What can anybody say except we are sorry for what that innocent woman was forced to endure by those sworn to protect her.
This movie has an amazing opening with the camera tracking across the Vietnam monument then fading right into a tracking shot of a battle. Great topic.
Loved Platoon, Hamburger Hill and We Were Soldiers as a teen. I actually joined up in the Army Infantry once I became of age. I wanted to feel what hell was like. Be careful what you wish for tho, you just might get it
My dad's favorite war movie and possibly my own. Brutal fighting and confusion, and you can't get distracted or pulled away from the immersion by recognizing the actors from other films.
I came here because of the title and once I watched the first minute I was hooked because I agree with the sentiment. While it is certainly no Platoon, it is a phenomenal movie in its own right. I went and saw it at the theater three times when I was a senior in high school.
Platoon and Hamburger Hill are equal quality in everything, but the score. Adagio for Strings is just so good. But Platoon is a tragic drama, and Hamburger Hill is a more realistic and action driven movie.
Speak for yourself! A group of us went to see this back when it came out, and we were all blown away by this film (I went out and looked for books on this particular battle; a little tricky to find).
I saw this movie as a kid and it was good then. I joined the Army out of high school and did a tour in Iraq. The movie is even better now especially after watching the way we left Iraq and Afghanistan. At the end of Hamburger Hill they win the battle but on screen it tells you that they then shortly abandoned it. Now me and the other million plus post 9/11 veterans did not get that feeling immediately but I can tell you if it was two days or two years later it hurts the same. I watched like everyone did as ISIS overran Iraq in the same spot I was not long before. I cannot imagine what anyone who went to Afghanistan felt like watching images of the airport in those final days felt like. At the end of the day war is war and to quote my favorite history podcast softcore history "S**t don't change". We do the fighting and dying but in the end does it ever really matter. "It don't mean nothin not a thang"
Joe Haldeman's "The Forever War" captures it well. I stumbled across some of his short stories which developed into his book in the first ten years after I came home from Vietnam. While reading his work (this in the before internet epoch) I strongly felt he was a Vietnam veteran also. He is. "Yep. Don't mean nuthin GI"
I guess most already know Hamburger Hill, but there are much less who know 84 Charlie MoPic (1989). Its made to look like a documentary filmed with a 16mm camera by a combat cameraman, who goes on patrol with a recon unit during the Vietnam war.
My uncle was at hamburger hill. My degree is in history with a focus on the war. This film hits me harder than any other film on the war. It’s more visceral. It hits harder. It’s more real. It deserves more notoriety than it has.
I'd go with Boys of Company C from the late 70s as most slept on Vietnam War movie overall. Great war movie that sneaks in the Frank Lucas drug smuggling side plot. I always considered Hamburger Hill the most grounded of the big 3 from the 80s.
Great movie (one of the very first Vietnam War films) but is really a much more 70's introspective movie than the later 80's ones. There were a good numbers in the 80s many better then others. Purple Hearts is a differenet one. Of course, staring many of the same actors that appears in multiples.
That is my brother's favorite movie. For the modest budget, it still had great actors of its time and really brought the emotion to the viewer, not just spectacle
The actual battle of A sau valley (Hamburger Hill being one of many hills taken during the battle) is actually something of a turning point in the Vietnam. US casualties and the tactics used were highly criticized in media and a debate raged in the US of the necessity fighting battles so costly over strategically unimportant objectives . After this battle the US went from a policy of keeping pressure on the enemy to a more defensive stance and shortly after the battle the first troop withdrawals began. One could say that Hamburger Hill broke the camels back and was the beginning of the end of US involvement in Vietnam.
Brilliant movie, me and a mate caught it as teens after a heavy Friday night partying, wen't to crash at mine, and it was just starting on TV, neither of us were mad on a war movie in the state we were in, but after 5min we were both hooked...... was amazing!...... then we both saw The Texas Chainsaw Massacre for the first time as was on afterwards..... that was a good movie night!
I don’t know if there’s a “best” movie about Vietnam. It was such a divisive war. So many perspectives and opinions from those who served and at home. I will say that We Were Soldiers is very underrated. Every Vietnam Vet I have spoken to thinks it is the best portrayal of the war, mainly because it focuses on the Homefront as well as the first major (and really one of the only) battles where the U.S. fought the NVA head-on.
The 80’s were full of Vietnam war and adjacent movies. If it wasn’t about the actual war then the characters were vets. I think it just got lost in the shuffle but it was definitely one of the better ones.
Saw this when it came out. I wished we got to see the survivors reaction to the hill being basically given back after the fighting. I'sd also check out Go Tell the Spartans, The Siege of Firebase Gloria, 84. Charlie MoPic.
I put this in similar company with another forgotten Vietnam War film: The Boys In Company C. That film wasn't quite the same level of intensity in terms of the combat (few films could be), but its examination of basic training in the USMC, with R. Lee Ermey reprising ALMOST the same role as a drill sgt., like in Full Metal Jacket, was incredible, and add a lot of character development and depth, as these same men then headed off into combat. Highly recommend that film as a companion piece to Hamburger Hill, which was a good war film in its own right. And if you want a forgotten Vietnam War film trifecta, add Tigerland to that list...which is ONLY about the training period, and doesn't go into the war itself, but it's a great story about how draftees had to suffer thru training, for something almost none of them wanted to go thru.
I liked Hamburger Hill but my Vietnam veteran,coworker at the time didn’t care for it. He told me Platoon was the most accurate depiction of his experience in Vietnam.
Saw it at the theater when it came out and definitely my favorite Vietnam War movie; no politics, just a story about the men who fought and what they went through. Loved the tagline for the film, "War at its worst, men at their best".
Hamburger Hill is the best Vietnam War movie ever, and possibly the best war movie ever. Watched it in the 80s, and have rewatched it many times since. Still, to me, the most gut wrenching depiction of war I've seen.
Idt that clip was from Behind Enemy Lines. I am thinking it is from a Chuck Norris Vietnam movie that came out soon after Ramblow, where Norris goes behind enemy lines and rescues POWs similarly to how Ram low did. Idr the name of that movie, so I can easily enuf figure the content creator could also get it wrong.
@@HollywoodMarine0351 Idk there were three of them, but , yeah, thats them. thanks. As you seem particularly familiar w them, what do you think? Isnt that scene of the trucks from one of those?
The writer at the Washington post who called the script hawkish macho posturing clearly never met actual soldiers. Also, the Green Berets gets a lot of crap, but the first 3/ 4 of that movie is actually pretty realistic to true events and the attitudes of the men who served in Special Forces. People who have only looked at the Vietnam War through the lens of Hollywood believe that every soldier was a jaded, cynical conscript or a caricature of arrogance like Robert Duvalls character in Apocalypse Now. But there were also men who fought the good fight, in as much as one could be found in Vietnam, and did things that you wouldn't believe if it were in a Rambo movie.
I was a 10yr girl in Canada when I watched Hamburger Hill… it was definitely one of the first movies that came to mind when speaking of the Vietnam War. Actually, I thought it was one of the most well known ones.
By far the best movie focusing on fighting in the Vietnam war but with such a strong anti-war message sipping through it; superb performances and attention to detail. The routine (teeth brushing), the down time and sharp actions in combat, just simply raises it above anything else on the subject.. I wish it had more recognition than it has received but it kind of makes it special to those of us that appreciate it for what it really is; a Masterpiece
i was lucky enough to have seen 'APOCALYPSE', 'DEER', 'LINES', 'PLATOON', 'JACKET' and 'HILL' all on the big screen (i'm 56) and although i really would not put one above the other all equally great fer different reasons 'HILL' has not gone down in history with anywhere near the fanfare and praise it deserves. i'm still amazed how many times over the years i've encountered people who have never even heard of it despite it's all star cast. funny how history works out sometimes.
My dad had this in his VHScollection for years, so it's not forgotten by everybody. Would Tigerland also count as an overlooked Vietnam movie? It's not set in Vietnam but rather the boot camp before it but it's also awesome.
Not only do I remember this, it was my favorite of the 3…at the time. I don’t think I seen it in 20+ years, and the others still get played often enough.
Hamburger Hill is one of the first war movies i had ever seen in full. My mom bought a box of VHS tapes from our closing local Video store. All sorts of random movies came my way from Commando to f'n Cocktail. Hamburger Hill was in there as well. That movie hit way too hard for my age at the time, made me uncomfortable. Only other movie that gives me the same feeling is Full Metal Jacket.
I prefer platoon simply because I fought in the 25th infantry division. The 101st is represented in movie after freaking movie. Wouldn't mind seeing the 9th infantry division getting some more love as well. Only remember seeing them in forest gump lol.
I really liked this movie, for me, more than any of the other movies released at that time, it really brings home the total futility of the war in Vietnam.
Siege of firebase Gloria is also the business maybe not so much in production but in the small things like the soldiers performing SPORTS when they had weapons malfunctions
It may be a Vietnam War movie YOU'VE Never seen. I've seen Hamburger Hill several times. I have shown it to friends and family. Having been with with the 101st Airborne Division, I've met Veterans from Hamburger Hill.
I knew a Vet that was on hill 937(aka Hamburger Hil ) he didn't talk much about it but I eased his view of me by letting him know my family has fought for this country for 200+ years and he told me some things but one of them is the mud seen he heard about in the movie. He said the one thing they got right was the mud said it was much worse than the movie showed. He never watched the movie for reasons some of you may know.
When i joined the Army in 1994 they had us watch Hamburger Hill while we were at receiving. Not sure if they still do this now but as someone who signed up for the infantry, watching this movie will mess with you when you join the army
Hamburger hill was a great film! so many fallen troops for totally no reason if you read the history about it. those who survived must be looked after.
A rumor of war, the odd angry shot, back 21, a bright shining lie, siege of firebase Gloria, the boys in Company C, Purple Hearts, and Go tell the Spartans.
Hamburger Hill was fought by elements of the 101st Airborne Division, no the 1st (Air) Cavalry Division. !st Cav was at Ia Drang in November 1965. Platoon featured the 25th Infantry Division.
Hamburger Hill and 84C Mopic I think are two of the best and most underrated Vietnam War films. Highly recommend the latter especially if you like 'found footage' style movies, and that movie predates things like Blair Witch by over a decade.
I always thought Hamburger Hill was a Vietnam war movie for people who thought Vietnam deserved the sort of movie that people used to make about WW2. It's more like A Bridge Too Far or The Longest Day than Platoon or Apocalypse Now. It's not a metaphor for something else, and it isn't a generic action movie. It's about a specific engagement, from a specific point of view. And social commentary enters into it, but that's not what it's about.
When I heard "Best Vietnam war movie you've never seen," I knew immediately it had to be "Hamburger Hill." Only I have seen it. I would also give honorable mention in that category to "The Boys in Company C."
Approved. Combat vet myself. This was my dads favorite Nam film. He was an actual bush Vet in Nam that was wounded. He told us this was his favorite and the most realistic. This movie also didnt hold back on the insanity of Nam with the real Hamburger Hill where friendly fire took place. First Blood is another very realistic film concerning Veteran homelessness, discrimination, and PTSD. Ending of that is 100% on point. "You dont just turn it off!"
Hamburger Hill has always been my favorite Vietnam war movie, hands down. Saw it way too young, but it left a lasting impression on me. Happy to see you covering it and giving it the love it deserves.
Ya i too saw it way too young.
Saw it young and am thankful for it. Showed the reality of war in which few movies did at the time. Grateful for the reality portrayed, grateful my parents werent woke!
Same, watched it in my teens but have watched several time since. The sound track is epic (and should have been worthy of mention), especially with them fighting up the hill multiple times only to return defeated until the end.
My father & I took my Vietnam War veteran grandfather to Washington D.C. several years ago for the 1st time for him to see The Vietnam War Memorial Wall. He was drafted in the late 1960s & he got injured by shrapnel from a land mine (in addition to getting shot), so he got sent home & received a Purple Heart. However, 6 of his buddies didn't make it back home, so before the trip he made a list of all of their names & where they were located on The Wall. As he found each on the wall, he got very emotional knowing that he managed to come home (though injured), get married, have 3 sons, & live another 50 years, but 6 of his friends didn't.
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My dad served a tour during the early '70s. He knows three names on the wall.
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Thank you for your father’s and his friends’ service. I’m sorry for his loss.
My uncle served in Vietnam after emigrating from Ecuador. He lost many friends also. He made it home and is still alive.
I also visited the wall and was overwhelmed with the amount of names and the size of the panels.
I lost my composure quickly and shed many tears for men and women I never knew.
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Casualties of war starring Michael j. Fox is an underrated gem. Worth a watch, imo
I was trying to remember what the name of that movie was. Yes, very underrated.
It’s based on a true story and while names and some locations have been changed it basically sticks with the facts. Not only did the young girl dies that day but justice did as well, the longest sentence any of them served for their horrific crime was just short of three years.
@peterbuckley3877 the first time i watched the film,i could not believe such a travesty of justice had taken place. What can anybody say except we are sorry for what that innocent woman was forced to endure by those sworn to protect her.
How on earth has no one seen Hamburger Hill. It's amazing
This movie has an amazing opening with the camera tracking across the Vietnam monument then fading right into a tracking shot of a battle. Great topic.
Loved Platoon, Hamburger Hill and We Were Soldiers as a teen. I actually joined up in the Army Infantry once I became of age. I wanted to feel what hell was like. Be careful what you wish for tho, you just might get it
My dad's favorite war movie and possibly my own. Brutal fighting and confusion, and you can't get distracted or pulled away from the immersion by recognizing the actors from other films.
I came here because of the title and once I watched the first minute I was hooked because I agree with the sentiment. While it is certainly no Platoon, it is a phenomenal movie in its own right. I went and saw it at the theater three times when I was a senior in high school.
Platoon and Hamburger Hill are equal quality in everything, but the score. Adagio for Strings is just so good. But Platoon is a tragic drama, and Hamburger Hill is a more realistic and action driven movie.
Speak for yourself! A group of us went to see this back when it came out, and we were all blown away by this film (I went out and looked for books on this particular battle; a little tricky to find).
84 Charlie MoPic is the Vietnam movie that went unnoticed but I think everyone should see.
Great movie, one of my favorites
Someone else who has actually seen that one.
84 Charlie Mopic was an awesome movie
Superb movie.
I had that movie. Criminally unknown! 🫡
Hamburger Hill is easily one of my favourite movies ever.. so fkn amazing
I saw this movie as a kid and it was good then. I joined the Army out of high school and did a tour in Iraq. The movie is even better now especially after watching the way we left Iraq and Afghanistan. At the end of Hamburger Hill they win the battle but on screen it tells you that they then shortly abandoned it. Now me and the other million plus post 9/11 veterans did not get that feeling immediately but I can tell you if it was two days or two years later it hurts the same. I watched like everyone did as ISIS overran Iraq in the same spot I was not long before. I cannot imagine what anyone who went to Afghanistan felt like watching images of the airport in those final days felt like. At the end of the day war is war and to quote my favorite history podcast softcore history "S**t don't change". We do the fighting and dying but in the end does it ever really matter. "It don't mean nothin not a thang"
Joe Haldeman's "The Forever War" captures it well. I stumbled across some of his short stories which developed into his book in the first ten years after I came home from Vietnam.
While reading his work (this in the before internet epoch) I strongly felt he was a Vietnam veteran also. He is.
"Yep. Don't mean nuthin GI"
Not only have I seen it, I own it on VHS, DVD, & Blu-ray.
Got me beat by Blu-ray... I think I need to step up my game.
I guess most already know Hamburger Hill, but there are much less who know 84 Charlie MoPic (1989).
Its made to look like a documentary filmed with a 16mm camera by a combat cameraman, who goes on
patrol with a recon unit during the Vietnam war.
Cool. Gonna check this one out when I get a chance
Never heard of this film, but it seems fascinating. Thank you for sharing.
I remember hiring 84 Charlie MoPic from my local video shop, back in the day. "I'm so short I could parachute off a dime!"
I thought this vid was about 84 Charlie Mopic. I think I watched it in my vcr on active duty with NMCB5 Seabees. Hhill is still great.
I remember 84 Charlie MoPic. It's an HBOmade production. One of their early ones. Pretty good if remember right. Also, pretty harsh.
My uncle was at hamburger hill. My degree is in history with a focus on the war. This film hits me harder than any other film on the war. It’s more visceral. It hits harder. It’s more real. It deserves more notoriety than it has.
I'd go with Boys of Company C from the late 70s as most slept on Vietnam War movie overall. Great war movie that sneaks in the Frank Lucas drug smuggling side plot. I always considered Hamburger Hill the most grounded of the big 3 from the 80s.
Great movie (one of the very first Vietnam War films) but is really a much more 70's introspective movie than the later 80's ones. There were a good numbers in the 80s many better then others. Purple Hearts is a differenet one. Of course, staring many of the same actors that appears in multiples.
That is my brother's favorite movie. For the modest budget, it still had great actors of its time and really brought the emotion to the viewer, not just spectacle
That was Gunny R. Lee Earmy's dress rehearsal for Full Metal Jacket.
Check your packages.
Tour Of Duty is the best Vietnam war TV show everyone’s seen.
The actual battle of A sau valley (Hamburger Hill being one of many hills taken during the battle) is actually something of a turning point in the Vietnam. US casualties and the tactics used were highly criticized in media and a debate raged in the US of the necessity fighting battles so costly over strategically unimportant objectives . After this battle the US went from a policy of keeping pressure on the enemy to a more defensive stance and shortly after the battle the first troop withdrawals began. One could say that Hamburger Hill broke the camels back and was the beginning of the end of US involvement in Vietnam.
Or maybe it was Nixon's campaign promise to get the U.S. out of Vietnam? Remember Vietnamization? Peace with Honor? And all that crap?
Brilliant movie, me and a mate caught it as teens after a heavy Friday night partying, wen't to crash at mine, and it was just starting on TV, neither of us were mad on a war movie in the state we were in, but after 5min we were both hooked...... was amazing!...... then we both saw The Texas Chainsaw Massacre for the first time as was on afterwards..... that was a good movie night!
Next you should do The Boys in Company C 👍
I was in a psych hospital with a Vietnam vet and we talked movies and he thought HAMBURGER HILL was the most realistic Vietnam War film ever made.
I don't know where this was on the big screed, but it's been on TV multiple times. Definitely worth a watch!!!
It was shown in British cinemas on its release
Hamburger Hill is one of my top 3 favorite war movies ever, it's good to see it get some real coverage.
I don’t know if there’s a “best” movie about Vietnam. It was such a divisive war. So many perspectives and opinions from those who served and at home. I will say that We Were Soldiers is very underrated. Every Vietnam Vet I have spoken to thinks it is the best portrayal of the war, mainly because it focuses on the Homefront as well as the first major (and really one of the only) battles where the U.S. fought the NVA head-on.
The 80’s were full of Vietnam war and adjacent movies. If it wasn’t about the actual war then the characters were vets. I think it just got lost in the shuffle but it was definitely one of the better ones.
Hamburger hill is one awesome film. It was more realistic than the other films.
Never seen?!! I’ve been singing its praises since its UK release! It looks a lot more realistic in its plot and acting than either FMJ or Platoon.
It’s a very popular film. It’s not a film that people “have never seen.” 😂😂😂
Saw this when it came out. I wished we got to see the survivors reaction to the hill being basically given back after the fighting. I'sd also check out Go Tell the Spartans, The Siege of Firebase Gloria, 84. Charlie MoPic.
I put this in similar company with another forgotten Vietnam War film: The Boys In Company C. That film wasn't quite the same level of intensity in terms of the combat (few films could be), but its examination of basic training in the USMC, with R. Lee Ermey reprising ALMOST the same role as a drill sgt., like in Full Metal Jacket, was incredible, and add a lot of character development and depth, as these same men then headed off into combat. Highly recommend that film as a companion piece to Hamburger Hill, which was a good war film in its own right.
And if you want a forgotten Vietnam War film trifecta, add Tigerland to that list...which is ONLY about the training period, and doesn't go into the war itself, but it's a great story about how draftees had to suffer thru training, for something almost none of them wanted to go thru.
I liked Hamburger Hill but my Vietnam veteran,coworker at the time didn’t care for it. He told me Platoon was the most accurate depiction of his experience in Vietnam.
Saw it at the theater when it came out and definitely my favorite Vietnam War movie; no politics, just a story about the men who fought and what they went through. Loved the tagline for the film, "War at its worst, men at their best".
Hamburger Hill is the best Vietnam War movie ever, and possibly the best war movie ever. Watched it in the 80s, and have rewatched it many times since. Still, to me, the most gut wrenching depiction of war I've seen.
I would highly recommend Go Tell the Spartans, starring Burt Lancaster (1978), which I would suggest is less known than Hamburger Hill.
Never seen? What are you talking about? That movie is a classic. I really thought y'all were going to have some movie I've never seen.
“Hamburger Hill” is unquestionably my favorite Vietnam War movie. It’s too bad it’s so often overlooked, and that the score lets it down so much
Growing up in the 80's Hamburger Hill was on syndication many a weekend in the USA.
Error at 1:09 due to “Behind Enemy Lines” wasn’t about Vietnam. It was on 1992-1995 Bosnian War.
I also heard host make the error. Then again, he doesn’t seem the type who watches military themed movies. 😂
@@0300SSgtOrange Like a nun teaching sex-ed.
Idt that clip was from Behind Enemy Lines. I am thinking it is from a Chuck Norris Vietnam movie that came out soon after Ramblow, where Norris goes behind enemy lines and rescues POWs similarly to how Ram low did.
Idr the name of that movie, so I can easily enuf figure the content creator could also get it wrong.
@@bbbabrock Missing In Action, Missing in Action 2: The Beginning, and Braddock: Missing in Action III.
@@HollywoodMarine0351 Idk there were three of them, but , yeah, thats them. thanks.
As you seem particularly familiar w them, what do you think? Isnt that scene of the trucks from one of those?
The writer at the Washington post who called the script hawkish macho posturing clearly never met actual soldiers.
Also, the Green Berets gets a lot of crap, but the first 3/ 4 of that movie is actually pretty realistic to true events and the attitudes of the men who served in Special Forces. People who have only looked at the Vietnam War through the lens of Hollywood believe that every soldier was a jaded, cynical conscript or a caricature of arrogance like Robert Duvalls character in Apocalypse Now.
But there were also men who fought the good fight, in as much as one could be found in Vietnam, and did things that you wouldn't believe if it were in a Rambo movie.
Good to know, I will keep this in mind when I actually watch this movie
I saw HAMBURGER HILL in a theater in 1987 and I’ve seen it just about every other year since 1988 because it’s always on television!
84 Charlie Mopic is a good Viet Nam movie as well.
Hamburger Hill. Hands down the best Vietnam War movie.
One of my favorites.
Yeah I'd say its one of the best war movies
I'd throw in The Walking Dead and Dead Presidents as two movies about Vietnam War that's overlooked and slept on by the mainstream
I loved Hamburger Hill.
I was a 10yr girl in Canada when I watched Hamburger Hill… it was definitely one of the first movies that came to mind when speaking of the Vietnam War. Actually, I thought it was one of the most well known ones.
By far the best movie focusing on fighting in the Vietnam war but with such a strong anti-war message sipping through it; superb performances and attention to detail. The routine (teeth brushing), the down time and sharp actions in combat, just simply raises it above anything else on the subject.. I wish it had more recognition than it has received but it kind of makes it special to those of us that appreciate it for what it really is; a Masterpiece
I was not expecting this at all! Such a great movie. It’s been one of my favorite war movies of alllll time
Hamburger hill is an amazing flick! Severly underrated.
Hamburger Hill was one of our favs growing up. 30 years ago lol
I saw this movie when cable used to put on good stuff, one of the best depictions of war that I could imagine. Very gripping.
"The defense of firebase Gloria . "
"Seige"
i was lucky enough to have seen 'APOCALYPSE', 'DEER', 'LINES', 'PLATOON', 'JACKET' and 'HILL' all on the big screen (i'm 56) and although i really would not put one above the other all equally great fer different reasons 'HILL' has not gone down in history with anywhere near the fanfare and praise it deserves. i'm still amazed how many times over the years i've encountered people who have never even heard of it despite it's all star cast. funny how history works out sometimes.
Saw the title of this video and immediately knew it was Hamburger Hill. Fantastic movie.
My dad had this in his VHScollection for years, so it's not forgotten by everybody. Would Tigerland also count as an overlooked Vietnam movie? It's not set in Vietnam but rather the boot camp before it but it's also awesome.
Not only do I remember this, it was my favorite of the 3…at the time. I don’t think I seen it in 20+ years, and the others still get played often enough.
Hamburger Hill is one of the first war movies i had ever seen in full. My mom bought a box of VHS tapes from our closing local Video store. All sorts of random movies came my way from Commando to f'n Cocktail. Hamburger Hill was in there as well. That movie hit way too hard for my age at the time, made me uncomfortable. Only other movie that gives me the same feeling is Full Metal Jacket.
The father of one of my childhood friends fought during this battle. He would never talk about it to anyone, not even his family.
Have Hamburger Hill on dvd and saw at the cinema, brilliant movie
I prefer platoon simply because I fought in the 25th infantry division. The 101st is represented in movie after freaking movie. Wouldn't mind seeing the 9th infantry division getting some more love as well. Only remember seeing them in forest gump lol.
I really liked this movie, for me, more than any of the other movies released at that time, it really brings home the total futility of the war in Vietnam.
What i liked with this one is that some of the dialogue is almost 'theatrical' , sort of 'heavy' and serious, Shakespearian-like, thoughtful ?
I wanted to he a Marine until I saw this movie as kid. This movie totally changed my mind. Great flick!
I used to watch this movie all the time. 1 of my favorite war movies
I used to own it way back on VHS it became one my favourites especially with dealing with the Vietnam war
Siege of firebase Gloria is also the business maybe not so much in production but in the small things like the soldiers performing SPORTS when they had weapons malfunctions
I saw this when it came out at the movie theater. My two veteran sons have seen it too. As a combat vet too I grew up in the 60s and 70s😂
It may be a Vietnam War movie YOU'VE Never seen. I've seen Hamburger Hill several times. I have shown it to friends and family. Having been with with the 101st Airborne Division, I've met Veterans from Hamburger Hill.
The odd angry shot is the best movie depiction of the Vietnam war period.
Finally!! Someone mentions this movie
I saw this movie after it first came out, while in the Army. The title is correct, most people haven't heard of this movie.
I saw this at the cinema when I was about 15. Is still my favourite Vietnam war movie. Shits all over platoon and Full Metal Jacket
I came for Hamburger Hill, but I stayed for the Sherilyn Fenn t-shirt.
I knew a Vet that was on hill 937(aka Hamburger Hil ) he didn't talk much about it but I eased his view of me by letting him know my family has fought for this country for 200+ years and he told me some things but one of them is the mud seen he heard about in the movie. He said the one thing they got right was the mud said it was much worse than the movie showed. He never watched the movie for reasons some of you may know.
When i joined the Army in 1994 they had us watch Hamburger Hill while we were at receiving. Not sure if they still do this now but as someone who signed up for the infantry, watching this movie will mess with you when you join the army
😆 🤣 we watched "in the Army now" with Pauly Shore on our way from the airport to Fort Benning on the bus..
It's kind of an underrated movie
Will check it out. Thanks for a fine review.
The line I remember best from this one was "...they [hippies] love everyone... everyone but you."
Saw this as a kid. ' You take that hill'.
I saw this one with my Dad on Vhs. They went up the hill on my birthday.
This has always been one of my favorite horror movies. I just watched it again last month
Hamburger hill was a great film! so many fallen troops for totally no reason if you read the history about it. those who survived must be looked after.
I caught it in the cinema when it came out! Loved it
I remember seeing a real low budget Vietnam War movie in the early 80’s called
“How Sleep the Brave”
I was very young
But it was bloody traumatizing
Best I saw was Dead Presidents with Lorenz Tate, Chris Tucker, Bokem Woodbine, Kieth David. Great movie, well acted and good action
A rumor of war, the odd angry shot, back 21, a bright shining lie, siege of firebase Gloria, the boys in Company C, Purple Hearts, and Go tell the Spartans.
Loved this movie. Haven't seen it in years though
I signed up for the 173rd just because of that movie...my favorite Vietnam movie
I was in this movie.
Good times.
There are many recognizable young actors who got their start in this movie.
I've long said this. Hamburger Hill, for my money, was the best of the '80s Vietnam films.
How embarrassed is Ewan going to be when i tell him that i wore out my VHS copy of it years ago!? 🤔
Not only saw it, saw it in the movie theater and have it on DVD. Also have "Dogs of War"
Hamburger Hill was fought by elements of the 101st Airborne Division, no the 1st (Air) Cavalry Division. !st Cav was at Ia Drang in November 1965. Platoon featured the 25th Infantry Division.
Had this on vhs as a kid..pretty sure we wore out the tape with rewatches
Hamburger Hill and 84C Mopic I think are two of the best and most underrated Vietnam War films. Highly recommend the latter especially if you like 'found footage' style movies, and that movie predates things like Blair Witch by over a decade.
Is there anything more inane than an actor telling us how hard movie making is and finishing with “now, I have an idea of what war is like”?
I always thought Hamburger Hill was a Vietnam war movie for people who thought Vietnam deserved the sort of movie that people used to make about WW2. It's more like A Bridge Too Far or The Longest Day than Platoon or Apocalypse Now. It's not a metaphor for something else, and it isn't a generic action movie. It's about a specific engagement, from a specific point of view. And social commentary enters into it, but that's not what it's about.
When I heard "Best Vietnam war movie you've never seen," I knew immediately it had to be "Hamburger Hill." Only I have seen it. I would also give honorable mention in that category to "The Boys in Company C."
Seen that movie, at least, 100 times.