Hamburger Hill (1987)

Cast

Dylan McDermott
as Sgt. Adam Frantz
Don Cheadle
as Pvt. Johnny Washburn
Steven Weber
as Sfc. Dennis Worcester
Courtney B. Vance
as Spc. Abraham 'Doc' Johnson

Get more information about Hamburger Hill (1987) on IMDb

Genres & Description

Action Drama History Thriller War

6.7 / 10

A brutal and realistic war film focuses on the lives of a squad of 14 U.S. Army soldiers of B Company, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infanty Regiment, 101st Airborne Division during the brutal 10 day (May 11-20, 1969) battle for Hill 937 in the A Shau Valley of Vietnam as they try again and again to take the fortified hill held by the North Vietnamese, and the faults and casualties they take every time in which the battle was later dubbed "Hamburger Hill" because enemy fire was so fierce that the fusillade of bullets turned assaulting troops into shreded hamburger meat.

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Comments on this trailer
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Frank Castle

what's the song called? - @Thursday, December 6, 2018 10:54 AM

Marcial Ramos

i learned this movie from my two uncles a marine red beret tank instructor and an army grunt - @Thursday, November 22, 2018 3:48 AM

CarreraLover

I like this movie, but Johnson was an annoying douche of a character. Always fuckin blaming anyone who's white for being white and thinking they must have had something to do with one of his brothers getting killed, even though it's his own paranoid delusions. Fucking hate him so much that I wish I was there so I could beat the ever living shit out of him. Also, I just love how it's wrong for a white man to be racist, but when a black guy does it, it's fine. XD Lol Anyways, good movie. - @Wednesday, July 25, 2018 12:15 PM

Thomas Hancock

Well this looks awful. The dialogue here is pure rah-rah BS that never happened. - @Tuesday, June 19, 2018 12:22 AM

Brad morris

Its sick how they miss the concept making all the soldiers to be heros when infact they were there to kill people taking back there country... - @Friday, June 1, 2018 11:19 PM

Kelly KitKat

The title pretty much tells you the story. https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=yoH367Dg4YY - @Sunday, February 4, 2018 9:14 AM

79tazman

I love this movie I remember seeing it when it first came out and I was young at the time but it made me learn more about the Vietnam war - @Monday, January 8, 2018 5:37 AM

Keith Au

Yes.Wonderful,fantastic and fascinating movie which i watched 30 years ago lonely in a theater in a small city.Still impressed by the theme song.scene,dialogue and the actors in the prolong Vietnam war.Rip,Rip Rip all passing away heroes fight for freedom,justice and democracy. - @Sunday, November 26, 2017 1:44 PM

Ryan Tornai

One of the earliedg R rated movies I can remember my dad letting me watch as a kid. wanted me to learn about how vietnam wasnt glorious for the US - @Sunday, May 21, 2017 10:34 AM

Jason C

My favorite Vietnam Movie...close second is Full metal jacket but I enjoy this one more - @Tuesday, March 28, 2017 8:48 AM

1bottlejackdaniels

"this is Han!"...intense scene! - @Thursday, December 15, 2016 2:27 AM

l angelo di Dio-GO ALDO

Very good film,only three soldiers were saved - @Saturday, August 27, 2016 12:50 PM

Ron C

The narrate and cheasy music made this trailer really stupid. - @Wednesday, March 30, 2016 3:39 AM

doubleP

Sgt:''Who is the dead guy?'' Doc:''I don't know,how the hell,I suppose to indentify this guy,when he doesn't has a fucking head?!'' Best scene and line of the movie. - @Friday, March 25, 2016 12:52 PM

marc leal

This movie represents the 101st Airborne Division on what they went thru on this bitch of a hill. 600 men went up and less than a 3rd came down. But they killed over a 1,000 enemy troops. - @Sunday, February 21, 2016 12:02 PM

Anton Chigurh

A friend of my dad's was at Hamburger Hill during those ten hellish days in May of '69. Not sure whether he was in the 101st or the 173rd but he was a sniper and said of his entire unit, only twelve men were left unhurt when they got to the top. - @Sunday, February 7, 2016 9:41 AM

marc leal

600 men went up, less than a third came down. Screaming Eagles - @Monday, February 1, 2016 6:36 AM

marc leal

My dad says we didn't lose this war but politicians say different and especially LBJ and General Westmoreland. - @Monday, February 1, 2016 6:35 AM

marc leal

My dad was on this bitch of a hill in '67 during his first tour with the 101st. They wiped out the enemy like they were trained to do bit abandoned it and later found out that the NVA & Vietcong took it back once they left it. - @Monday, February 1, 2016 6:34 AM

banzaillamas

In case anyone is wondering what song is playing its Darude - Sandstorm :)! - @Thursday, January 28, 2016 7:45 PM

marc leal

My father voluntarily signed up to go to Vietnam, he was sent to Fort Campbell Kentucky for his basic training. He was on Hamburger Hill in '69 after the major battle on which this movie is based on. But he says it was the same shitty battles - @Monday, December 21, 2015 3:21 AM

Bob .Grant

Good film with fresh faces make this a must see. - @Friday, September 11, 2015 9:10 PM

weskitten

Hambuger all-right, there's a lot of viscera, ketchup and fake guts in this one. Gawd! - @Thursday, June 25, 2015 9:13 AM

jojjexxx69

Stravinsky. Sakrifies of spring. - @Friday, April 24, 2015 1:45 PM

Nikita0156

I wish this movie was better received. I thought it was as good as Platoon and FMJ, all three movies representing various aspects of the war. HH focused on a squad fighting on hill as well as life on a base near a village. Platoon solely focused on fighting deep deep in the jungle and the humanity that can be lost. FMJ: the militarization of the war. THIS movie was JUST as good, and showcased soldiers in a better light. Black soldiers weren't portrayed as cowards and drug addicts like in Platoon. The Lt was a little more competent. Perfect anit-war film, without being anti-soldier. - @Friday, March 27, 2015 5:11 AM

Max Frankow

"It don't mean nothing... Not a thing." - @Sunday, January 4, 2015 6:22 AM

Basement Films

Really dumb you thought hippies wanted the war so they protested it. Get off the conservative crack pipe. The ones that didn't want the war was because they were smart enough to know it was for nothing. We lost they won and it's a sad fukn story in American history. Let's not repeat it. - @Sunday, September 21, 2014 9:32 PM

marc leal

600 went up less a third came down. That's real talk. - @Saturday, July 19, 2014 9:56 AM

marc leal

My Father was on this bitch of a hill in '67 in his 1st tour in Vietnam. This movie is based on the events of '69. Do the math. That hill was a death trap for US TROOPS. - @Saturday, July 19, 2014 9:51 AM

Fred Derry

they looked like 80's magazine models more than 60's soldiers - @Tuesday, May 27, 2014 11:07 AM

motherlovinsnuffstar

72 KIA-372 wounded was the "official" report. You think they tell the masses back home what's going on, think again. They wanted all the commie p.o.s. hippies and college students to believe that American troops were massacring the communist vc over there, and not the one's being massacred by the commie gukes. The latter being more true than the former... Which is the real reason the commies in America protested the war, they didn't want our country to fight Communism, they wanted the country to embrace it! We should have dealt with the commies on our own soil first before proceeding on to Vietnam!!! - @Sunday, May 11, 2014 8:27 PM

aj b

+Jens Buhler yeh they're british but SAS were also in the v'mese war supporting the Canadian, Australian and American soldiers - @Friday, April 11, 2014 4:49 AM

kennerfreak7

yes - @Friday, November 1, 2013 3:25 PM

TPDManiacXC626

Don LaFontaine? - @Thursday, August 22, 2013 3:28 AM

Jens Buhler

The SAS are british... - @Wednesday, January 9, 2013 6:25 PM

C0nTroL69

You forgot to mention the bad ass Airborne. - @Tuesday, September 4, 2012 2:50 PM

frankandersson76

Bounties, raised by common subscription in amounts running anywhere $50 to $1,000, had been widely reported put on the heads of leaders whom the privates and Sp4s wanted to rub out. Shortly after the costly assault on Hamburger Hill in mid-1969,the GI underground newspaper in Vietnam, "G.I. Says", publicly offered a $10,000 bounty on Lt. Col. Weldon Honeycutt, the officer who ordered(and led) the attack. Despite several attempts, however, Honeycutt managed to live out his tour and return US. - @Friday, April 27, 2012 4:51 PM

Nurjan Dalamban

this video was shot in philippines.. - @Tuesday, April 24, 2012 11:54 AM

Vince Person

U.S 56 dead 400 wounded N.V.A 630 dead ?wounded - @Thursday, March 29, 2012 8:45 PM

Happy Sammy

i have to admint america has hell good forces like rangers and marine and the sas are boss but the vietname were incredible like with their traps and underground stuff extreamly intresting - @Wednesday, March 21, 2012 1:53 PM

Timothy Whittenberg

72 killed, 372 wounded. - @Sunday, January 22, 2012 9:04 AM

lumpyfishful

i though only 70 soldiers were killed and a magazine was published with 200 faces from all the deaths in vietnam and lots of people thought 200 died taking hamburger hill - @Sunday, August 28, 2011 1:37 PM

mkl62

10-25-2009. Sake's alive, sake's alive, look who's 45. Happy Birthday, Michael. I remember you in this and Running on Empty. Not to mention your other projects, like your guest starring on the Law and Order series. Keep up the good work. - @Monday, October 26, 2009 1:17 AM