If You Liked The Killing Fields, Watch These Next

Finished The Killing Fields (1984) and want more of the same? These 19 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like The Killing Fields, most of them are drama, history, war.

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19 titles · updated 2nd October 2026

1.First They Killed My Father(2017)
7.4WarDramaHistoryAlso war and drama
A 5-year-old girl embarks on a harrowing quest for survival amid the sudden rise and terrifying reign of the Khmer Rouge in Cambodia.
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2.Civil War(2024)
6.8WarActionDramaAlso war and drama
In the near future, a group of war journalists attempt to survive while reporting the truth as the United States stands on the brink of civil war.
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3.Heaven & Earth(1993)
6.6HistoryWarDramaAlso history and war
In a small Vietnamese village torn apart by war, a young woman faces unimaginable horrors before deciding to escape to the city. There, she encounters a compassionate Marine who offers her hope and a chance at a new life, igniting the possibility of a future together.
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4.Salvador(1986)
7.0DramaThrillerWarAlso drama and war
In 1980, an American journalist covering the Salvadoran Civil War becomes entangled with both the leftist guerrilla groups and the right-wing military dictatorship while trying to rescue his girlfriend and her children.
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5.Apocalypse Now(1979)
8.3DramaWarAlso drama and war
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into…
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6.The Last Full Measure(2020)
7.3DramaActionWarAlso drama and war
The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger and uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the…
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7.Platoon(1986)
7.7DramaWarActionAlso drama and war
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.
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8.Beasts of No Nation(2015)
7.6DramaWarAlso drama and war
Based on the experiences of Agu, a child fighting in the civil war of a West African country. Follows Agu's journey as he's forced to join a group of soldiers. While he fears his commander and many of the men around him, his fledgling childhood has been brutally shattered by the war raging through his country, and he…
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9.Full Metal Jacket(1987)
8.1DramaWarAlso drama and war
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.
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10.Casualties of War(1989)
7.2DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and history
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager.
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11.The Siege of Jadotville(2016)
7.1WarDramaThrillerAlso war and drama
Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s.
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12.We Were Soldiers(2002)
7.1ActionHistoryWarAlso history and war
The year is 1965 and America is at war with North Vietnam. Commanding the air cavalry is Lt. Col. Hal Moore (Gibson), a born leader committed to his troops. His target: the Ia Drang Valley, called "The Valley of Death." As Moore prepares for one of the most violent battles in U.S. history, he delivers a stirring…
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13.A Private War(2018)
6.8DramaWarAlso drama and war
One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.
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14.Born on the Fourth of July(1989)
7.0DramaWarAlso drama and war
Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, Ron Kovic becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.
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15.Pork Chop Hill(1959)
6.7DramaHistoryWarAlso drama and history
Korean War, April 1953. Lieutenant Clemons, leader of the King company of the United States Infantry, is ordered to recapture Pork Chop Hill, occupied by a powerful Chinese Army force, while, just seventy miles away, at nearby the village of Panmunjom, a tense cease-fire conference is celebrated.
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16.Attack on Darfur(2009)
5.9WarThrillerDramaAlso war and drama
American journalists in Sudan are confronted with the dilemma of whether to return home to report on the atrocities they have seen, or to stay behind and help some of the victims they have encountered.
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17.Under Fire(1983)
6.7DramaWarAlso drama and war
Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
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18.Bat★21(1988)
6.3ActionWarDramaAlso war and drama
Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows the area he's in is going to be carpet-bombed but a temporary shortage of helicopters causes a delay. Working with an Air Force…
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19.Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan(2019)
6.8WarDramaHistoryAlso war and drama
Vietnam War, 1966. Australia and New Zealand send troops to support the United States and South Vietnamese in their fight against the communist North. Soldiers are very young men, recruits and volunteers who have never been involved in a combat. On August 18th, members of Delta Company will face the true horror of a…
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