Vetsploitation
Vetsploitation is a film genre and term used to describe exploitation films in which a military veteran is the main element to the plot.
Critical reception
The vetsploitation genre developed in the 1970s, as B movies featuring veterans who were vilified and became antiheroes. Aspects of American vetsploitation films were paralleled by Russian media inspired by the Soviet–Afghan War.Notable films
- 1971: Billy Jack
- 1972: Skyjacked
- 1973: The No Mercy Man
- 1974: Deathdream
- 1976: Taxi Driver
- 1977: Black Sunday
- 1977: The Farmer
- 1977: Rolling Thunder
- 1980: The Exterminator
- 1980: Cannibal Apocalypse
- 1982: Forced Vengeance
- 1982: First Blood
- 1983: Blue Thunder
- 1985: Thou Shalt Not Kill... Except
- 1985: The Park Is Mine
- 1986: Combat Shock
- 1987: Street Trash
- 1990: Jacob's Ladder
- 1995: ''Dead Presidents''