Vetsploitation
Film genre about an ex-military fighter as a key character
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Vetsploitation is a film genre and term used to describe exploitation films in which a military veteran is the main element to the plot.
Background
The vetsploitation genre developed in the 1960-1970s, as B movies featuring veterans who were misunderstood or vilified and became post-Vietnam "freaked-out loser" antiheroes.[1][2] Aspects of American vetsploitation films were paralleled by Russian media inspired by the Soviet–Afghan War.[3]
Notable films
- 1967: The Born Losers[4]
- 1968: Targets[4]
- 1970: Hi, Mom![5]
- 1971: Billy Jack[2]
- 1972: Skyjacked[1]
- 1973: The No Mercy Man[6]
- 1974: Earthquake[1]
- 1976: Taxi Driver[7][1]
- 1976: Tracks[4]
- 1976: Vigilante Force[4]
- 1977: Black Sunday[1]
- 1977: The Farmer[8]
- 1977: Rolling Thunder[9][1]
- 1978: Coming Home[4]
- 1978: Who'll Stop the Rain[4]
- 1979: Bush Mama[4]
- 1980: Don't Answer the Phone[4]
- 1980: The Exterminator[1]
- 1980: Cannibal Apocalypse[10][1]
- 1980: The Ninth Configuration[4]
- 1982: Forced Vengeance[1]
- 1982: Firefox[4]
- 1982: First Blood[1]
- 1985: Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except[1]
- 1985: Year of the Dragon[4]
- 1985: Rambo: First Blood Part II[4]
- 1987: Lethal Weapon[4]
- 1987: Suspect[4]
- 1988: Braddock: Missing in Action III[4]
- 1988: Rambo III[4]
- 1989: Born on the Fourth of July [4]
- 1990: Jacob's Ladder[1]
- 1992: Universal Soldier[4]
- 1994: Forrest Gump[4]
- 1996: The Substitute[4]
- 1996: The War at Home[4]
- 1997: Ulee's Gold[4]