Rambo III (1988)

Rambo III

Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Kurtwood Smith

This is the third film in the Rambo series. The film opens with Colonel Trautman (Crenna) visiting a monastery in Thailand to meet Rambo. He meets up with Rambo at a temple construction site after Rambo's prizefighting match. He asks Rambo to join him on a mission to Afghanistan to supply weapons including Stinger Missiles to the Afghan freedom fighters, called the Mujahideen, who are fighting the Russians. Rambo refuses the request.

Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985)

Rambo: First Blood Part II

Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Charles Napier, Stephen Berkoff, Julia Nickson-Soul

Rambo, with the assistance of a local woman, Co Bao (Julia Nickson-Soul), finds American POWs in Vietnam and tries to escape with one. During the extraction, Marshall Murdock (Charles Napier), in charge of the operation, orders that Rambo be abandoned, and all documentation of POWs be destroyed, much to Colonel Trautman's (Richard Crenna) dismay.

Rambo: First Blood (1982)

Rambo: First Blood

Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Richard Crenna, Brian Dennehy, David Caruso, Jack Starrett

The film centers on John Rambo, a former member of the US Army's Green Berets (an elite Special Forces unit) who fought in Vietnam and was a Medal of Honor recipient for his actions there. Rambo has difficulty adjusting to civilian life and wanders the country as a drifter. The film begins as he is seeking out his friend Delmore Barry, apparently the only other Special Forces member from his unit to make it out of Vietnam alive.