Movies Like Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (2019)

Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan is a 2019 action, drama, history, war film with a MovieMagicScore of 6.8/10. Here are 20 similar films, ranked by real viewer ratings — starting with We Were Soldiers and The Greatest Beer Run Ever.

Action Drama History War

We Were Soldiers

2002

The story of the first major battle of the American phase of the Vietnam War and the soldiers on both sides that fought it.

7.1

MagicScore

The Greatest Beer Run Ever

2022

Chickie wants to support his friends fighting in Vietnam, so he does something wild—personally bring them American beer. What starts as a well-meaning journey quickly changes Chickie's life and perspective.

7.5

MagicScore

Born on the Fourth of July

1989

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.

7.0

MagicScore

The Sapphires

2012

It's 1968, and four young, talented Australian Aboriginal girls learn about love, friendship, and war when they entertain the US troops in Vietnam as singing group The Sapphires.

6.8

MagicScore

A Bridge Too Far

1977

The story of Operation Market Garden—a failed attempt by the allies in the latter stages of WWII to end the war quickly by securing three bridges in Holland allowing access over the Rhine into Germany. A combination of poor allied intelligence and the presence of two crack German panzer divisions meant that the final part of this operation (the bridge in Arnhem over the Rhine) was doomed to failure.

7.2

MagicScore

Path to War

2003

A powerful drama of soaring ambition and shattered dreams that takes a provocative insider's look at the way the USA goes to war—as seen from inside the LBJ White House leading up to and during the Vietnam War.

6.7

MagicScore

JFK

1991

Follows the investigation into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy led by New Orleans district attorney Jim Garrison.

7.6

MagicScore

Good Morning, Vietnam

1987

A disk jockey goes to Vietnam to work for the Armed Forces Radio Service. While he becomes popular among the troops, his superiors disapprove of his humor.

7.3

MagicScore

Coming Home

1978

In 1968 California, a Marine officer's wife falls in love with a former high school classmate who suffered a paralyzing combat injury in the war.

7.0

MagicScore

#10

Air America

1990

Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.

5.8

MagicScore

#11

Forrest Gump

1994

A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. But despite all he has achieved, his one true love eludes him.

8.5

MagicScore

#12

Hair

1979

Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his way to boot camp.

7.3

MagicScore

#13

Across the Universe

2007

When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in the United States, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, who joins the growing anti-war movement. As the body count in Vietnam rises, political tensions at home spiral out of control and the star-crossed lovers find themselves in a psychedelic world gone mad.

7.1

MagicScore

#14

Dogfight

1991

In the fall of 1963, Eddie Birdlace is an 18-year-old Marine Corps volunteer who is about to ship out with three of his buddies for a tour of duty in Vietnam. Planning a massive blowout for their last night in San Francisco, Eddie, his buddies, and a number of other Marines set up a contest they call a "dogfight”.

6.9

MagicScore

#15

Bad Times at the El Royale

2018

Lake Tahoe, 1969. Seven strangers, each one with a secret to bury, meet at El Royale, a decadent motel with a dark past. In the course of a fateful night, everyone will have one last shot at redemption.

6.8

MagicScore

#16

Obsessed

2014

A secret, passionate affair happens in the summer of 1969 between Colonel Jin Pyeong, trapped in a loveless marriage with Soo Jin, and Jong Ga Heun, the Chinese-Korean wife of Captain Kyung Woo Jin.

6.7

MagicScore

#17

Gallipoli

1981

Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in the Ottoman Empire during World War I.

7.0

MagicScore

#18

The Martha Mitchell Effect

2022

She was once as famous as Jackie O—and then she tried to take down a President. Martha Mitchell was the unlikeliest of whistleblowers: a Republican wife who was discredited by Nixon to keep her quiet. Until now.

6.4

MagicScore

#19

Go Tell the Spartans

1978

A unit of American military advisors in Vietnam prior to the major U.S. involvement finds similarities between their helpless struggle against the Viet Cong and the doomed actions of a French unit at the same site a decade before.

6.2

MagicScore

#20

American Pastoral

2016

Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter's new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.

6.2

MagicScore

Frequently asked

What are the best movies like Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan?

The top films similar to Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan by MovieMagicScore are We Were Soldiers (7.1), The Greatest Beer Run Ever (7.5), Born on the Fourth of July (7.0). Each shares action/drama/history/war themes and is ranked by real viewer ratings, not critics or studios.

Is Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan worth watching?

Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan holds a MovieMagicScore of 6.8/10 from 343 viewer ratings.

What kind of movie is Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan?

Danger Close: The Battle of Long Tan (2019) is a action, drama, history, war film, starring Travis Fimmel, Luke Bracey, Daniel Webber.

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