MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
1982. “First Blood”	3 December 1982

STARRING:

Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo Richard Crenna as Colonel Sam Trautman Brian Dennehy as Sheriff Will Teasle Bill McKinney as Dave Kern Jack Starrett as Art Galt Michael Talbott as Balford Chris Mulkey as Ward John McLiam as Orval Alf Humphreys as Lester David Caruso as Mitch David L. Crowley as Shingleton Don MacKay as Preston

SYNOPSIS:

Seven years after his discharge, Vietnam War veteran John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) travels by foot to visit one of his old comrades, only to learn upon his arrival that his friend had died from cancer due to Agent Orange exposure during the war. Distraught, Rambo continues to travel, wandering into the small town of Hope, Washington.[5] He is intercepted by the town's arrogant and abusive Sheriff Will Teasle (Brian Dennehy), who considers him an unwanted nuisance. When Rambo asks for directions to a diner, Teasle drives him out of town and tells him not to return. Rambo does so anyway, so Teasle arrests him on charges of vagrancy, resisting arrest, and possessing a concealed knife. Led by sadistic chief deputy Art Galt (Jack Starrett), Teasle's officers bully and abuse Rambo, triggering flashbacks of the torture he endured as a POW in Vietnam. When they try to dry-shave him with a straight razor, Rambo snaps, overwhelms the police force as he fights his way outside, and flees into the woods. A furious Teasle organizes a search party - complete with automatic weapons, dogs, and a helicopter - to recapture him. During the search, it is learned that Rambo is a former Green Beret who received the Medal of Honor for his service. Galt spots Rambo and resorts to lethal force in defiance of orders, attempting to murder Rambo from the helicopter. He hangs from the outside of the chopper in an attempt to get a better aim at shooting Rambo. Rambo then throws a rock at the helicopter's windshield, fracturing it; the pilot is surprised and his sudden reaction causes Galt to lose his balance and fall out of the chopper to his death. Rambo attempts to persuade Teasle and his men it was an accident and that he wants no more trouble, but the police open fire and pursue him into a wooded area. Rambo disables the deputies non-lethally one by one using his combat prowess, until only Teasle is left. Holding a knife to his throat, Rambo threatens to fight back much harder if he doesn't "let it go". Teasle chooses to press the issue, and the Washington State Patrol and the Washington Army National Guard are called in to assist in the manhunt. At the same time, Rambo's mentor and former commanding officer, Colonel Sam Trautman (Richard Crenna) arrives in Hope. Warning of his former soldier's abilities, Trautman advises that Rambo be given a gap to slip through so he can be recaptured more safely later. Confident that Rambo is hopelessly outnumbered, Teasle refuses. A National Guard detachment corners Rambo at the entrance of an abandoned mine; against orders, they use a M72 LAW rocket, collapsing the entrance and apparently killing Rambo. However, he survives, finds an alternate way out of the mine, and hijacks a supply truck, which he uses to return to town. To distract his pursuers, he starts a fire at a gas station, blowing it up, shoots out most of the town's power, and destroys a gun store near the police station with a stolen M60 machine gun to distract and locate Teasle. Teasle, meanwhile, has positioned himself on the roof of his station to search for Rambo, and is spotted there by him in the confusion he created. The two engage in a brief gunfight, which ends with Teasle falling through a skylight, badly injured by Rambo shooting him through the ceiling. Rambo prepares to kill him, but Trautman arrives and warns Rambo that he will be shot if he doesn't surrender. Rambo collapses to the floor in tears where he talks about the things that happened to him in Vietnam and when he returned home. He then suffers a Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder-triggered breakdown before surrendering to Trautman, and he then is put into state custody and driven away as Teasle is sent to the hospital.

MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
1985. “Rambo - First Blood Part II”	22 May 1985

STARRING:

Sylvester Stallone as John J. Rambo Richard Crenna as Col. Samuel Trautman Charles Napier as Marshall Murdock Steven Berkoff as Lt. Col. Podovsky Julia Nickson as Co-Bao Martin Kove as Ericson George Cheung as Lt. Tay Andy Wood as Banks William Ghent as Capt. Vinh (POW camp commander) Voyo Goric as Sgt. Yushin Dana Lee as Capt. Kinh Baoan Coleman as Gunboat captain

SYNOPSIS:

A year into his sentence, former commando John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is visited by his old commander, Colonel Sam Trautman (Richard Crenna). With the war in Vietnam over, the public has become increasingly concerned over news that a small group of US POWs have been left in enemy custody. To placate their demands for action, the US government has authorized a solo infiltration mission to confirm the reports. As one of only three men suited for such work, Rambo agrees to undertake the operation in exchange for a pardon. He is taken to meet Marshall Murdock (Charles Napier), a bureaucratic government official overseeing the operation. Rambo is temporarily reinstated into the US army and instructed that he is only to photograph a possible camp and not to rescue any prisoners or engage enemy personnel, as they will be retrieved by a better equipped extraction team upon his return. During his insertion, Rambo's parachute becomes tangled and breaks, causing him to lose most of his equipment, leaving him with only his knife and a bow with specialized arrows. He meets his assigned contact, a young intelligence agent named Co-Bao (Julia Nickson), who arranges for a local, river pirate band to take them upriver. Reaching the camp, Rambo spots one of the prisoners tied to a cross shaped post, left to suffer from exposure, and rescues him against orders. During escape, they are discovered by Vietnamese troops and attacked. When a gunboat manages to catch up, the pirates betray them out of fear. Rambo gets the POW and Co-Bao to safety, destroys the boat with an RPG-7, and kills the pirates. When Rambo calls for extraction, the helicopter is ordered to abort by Murdock, who claims Rambo has violated his orders. Co-Bao escapes, but Rambo and the POW are recaptured and returned to the camp. There, Rambo learns that Soviet troops are arming and training the Vietnamese. He is turned over to the local liaison, Lieutenant Colonel Podovsky (Steven Berkoff) and his right-hand man, Sergeant Yushin, for interrogation. Upon learning of Rambo's mission from intercepted missives, Podovsky demands that Rambo broadcast a message disavowing the POWs. Meanwhile, Co infiltrates the camp disguised as a prostitute and comes to the hut in which Rambo is held captive. Rambo at first refuses to cooperate, but relents when the prisoners' lives are threatened. Instead of reading the scripted comments, Rambo directly threatens Murdock. He then subdues the Russians with Co's help and escapes into the jungle. They kiss, and Rambo agrees to take Co back to the United States. However, a small Vietnamese force attacks them, and Co is killed. An enraged Rambo kills the soldiers and buries Co's body in the mud. Using his weapons and guerrilla training, Rambo systematically dispatches the numerous Soviet and Vietnamese soldiers sent after him. After barely surviving a barrel bomb dropped by Yushin's helicopter, Rambo climbs on board, throws Yushin over the side in a brief fight, and takes control. He lays waste to the prison camp and kills all of the remaining enemy forces before extracting the POWs and heading towards friendly territory in Thailand. Podovsky, pursuing in a Mil Mi-24 helicopter gunship, shoots them down and moves in for the kill. Having faked the crash, Rambo kills him with a spare rocket. Returning to base with the POWs, Rambo, after using the helicopter's machine gun to destroy Murdock's office, confronts the terrified man with his knife demanding that Murdock rescue the remaining POWs. Trautman then confronts Rambo and tries to pacify him. An angry Rambo responds that he only wants his country to love its soldiers as much as its soldiers love it. The film credits roll as Rambo walks off into the distance while his mentor watches him.

MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
1988. “Rambo III”	25 May 1988

STARRING:

Sylvester Stallone as John J. Rambo Richard Crenna as Colonel Sam Trautman Kurtwood Smith as Robert Griggs Marc de Jonge as Colonel Zaysen Sasson Gabai as Mousa Ghani Doudi Shoua as Hamid Spiros Focas as Masoud Randy Raney as Sergeant Kourov Marcus Gilbert as Tomask Alon Abutbul as Nissem Mahmoud Assadollahi as Rahim Yosef Shiloah as Khalid

SYNOPSIS:

Colonel Sam Trautman visits his old friend and ally John Rambo in Thailand. He explains that he is putting together a mercenary team for a CIA-sponsored mission to supply anti-Soviet fighters in Afghanistan. Despite being shown photos of civilians suffering at the hands of the Soviet military, Rambo refuses to join, as he is tired of fighting. Trautman proceeds anyway and is ambushed by enemy forces near the border, resulting in all of his men being killed. Trautman is captured and sent to a large mountain base to be interrogated by Soviet Colonel Zaysen and his henchman Sergeant Kourov. Embassy official Robert Griggs informs Rambo of Trautman's capture but refuses to approve a rescue mission for fear of drawing the United States into the war. Aware that Trautman will die otherwise, Rambo gets permission to undertake a solo rescue on the condition that he will be disavowed in the event of capture or death. Rambo immediately flies to Peshawar, Pakistan, where he intends to convince arms dealer Mousa Ghani to bring him to Khost, the town closest to the Soviet base where Trautman is held captive. The Mujahideen in the village, led by chieftain Masoud, hesitate to help Rambo free Trautman. Meanwhile, a Soviet informant in Ghani's employ informs the Russians, who send two attack helicopters to destroy the village. Though Rambo manages to destroy one of them with a turret, the rebels refuse to aid him any further. Aided only by Mousa and a young boy named Hamid, Rambo attacks the base and inflicts significant damage before being forced to retreat. Hamid, as well as Rambo, are wounded during the battle and Rambo sends him and Mousa away before resuming his infiltration. Skillfully evading base security, Rambo reaches Trautman just as he is about to be tortured with a flamethrower. He and Trautman rescue several other prisoners and hijack a Hind helicopter to escape the base. The helicopter is damaged during takeoff and quickly crashes, forcing the escapees to flee across the sand on foot. An attack chopper pursues Rambo and Trautman to a nearby cave, where Rambo destroys it with an explosive arrow. A furious Zaysen sends commandos under Kourov to kill them, but they are quickly routed and killed. An injured Kourov attacks Rambo with his bare hands, but is overcome and killed. As Rambo and Trautman make their way to the Pakistani border, Zaysen and his forces surround them. But before the duo are overwhelmed, Masoud's Mujahideen forces attack the Soviets in a surprise cavalry charge. Despite being wounded, Rambo takes control of a tank and uses it to shoot down Zaysen's chopper. The two collide but only Rambo survives. At the end of the battle, Rambo and Trautman say goodbye to the Mujahideen and leave Afghanistan.

MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
2008. “Rambo”	21 February 2008

STARRING:

Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo Julie Benz as Sarah Miller Paul Schulze as Michael Burnett Matthew Marsden as School Boy Graham McTavish as Lewis Reynaldo Gallegos as Diaz Tim Kang as En-Joo Jake La Botz as Reese Ken Howard as Father Marsh Maung Maung Khin as Tint Supakorn Kitsuwon as Myint Richard Crenna as Colonel Sam Trautman (Flashbacks and stock footage)

SYNOPSIS:

Twenty years after the events in Afghanistan, amid the political protests of the crisis in Burma, ruthless military officer Major Pa Tee Tint leads an army of Burmese Army soldiers to pillage small villages in a campaign of fear. He sadistically slaughters innocent villagers and orders teenage boys to be drafted into his army. Meanwhile, ex-soldier John Rambo now lives in Thailand, where he makes a living capturing and selling snakes as well as taxiing people along the Salween River on his boat. A missionary named Michael Burnett approaches Rambo and hires him to ferry his group into Burma on a humanitarian mission to provide aid to Karen tribespeople. Rambo initially refuses, but another missionary named Sarah Miller persuades him to help them. During their trip, the boat is stopped by Burmese pirates who demand Sarah in exchange for passage. After negotiations fail, Rambo shoots the pirates. Michael is greatly disturbed by Rambo's actions. Upon arriving in Burma, Michael sends him back, claiming they will go on without his help, and that he intends to report Rambo's actions to the authorities. The missionaries are helping a village when the army attack, killing most of the villagers and two missionaries and kidnap the rest, including Michael and Sarah. When the missionaries fail to return, their pastor asks Rambo to guide a team of five mercenaries to the village where the missionaries were last seen. Rambo agrees and accompanies the mercenaries to the drop-off, where the team's leader Lewis demands he stay at the boat. As the mercenary team arrives at the village, they find it completely destroyed, filled with mutilated corpses. Shortly after, a squad of soldiers show up with a group of hostages and force them to run through a rice paddy with landmines, and betting on the outcome. Outnumbered, the mercenaries take cover, reluctantly planning to wait for them to leave. To their shock, Rambo shows up and singlehandedly wipes out the soldiers with his bow and arrow, allowing the hostages to escape unscathed. Rambo convinces the mercenaries to avenge the villagers and save the hostages at the P.O.W. camp. They infiltrate the camp and rescue the prisoners, including Sarah. They flee, pursued by Tint's soldiers. Rambo manages to get rid of a pursuit team with an unexploded Tallboy bomb from World War II. However, the army manage to capture everyone except for Rambo, Sarah, and the mercenary sniper nicknamed School Boy. As the army prepares to execute the mercenaries and hostages, Rambo hijacks a jeep-mounted machine gun and begins shooting at the soldiers. A firefight ensues and the army suffer heavy casualties. The Karen rebels show up and join the fight, quickly overwhelming the army. Tint, realizing his defeat, attempts to escape the area, but Rambo intercepts and disembowels him. In the final scene, Rambo, encouraged by Sarah's words, returns to the United States. He walks along an Arizona highway until he sees a horse farm and a rusted mailbox. Reading the name "R. Rambo," Rambo smiles and walks down the gravel driveway as the credits roll.

MOVIE TITLE	RELEASE DATE
2019. “Rambo - Last Blood”	20 September 2019

STARRING:

Sylvester Stallone as John J. Rambo Paz Vega as Carmen Delgado Sergio Peris-Mencheta as Hugo Martinez Adriana Barraza as Maria Beltran Yvette Monreal as Gabriela Genie Kim as Bar Patron Joaquìn Cosìo as Don Manuel Óscar Jaenada as Victor Martinez Pascacio Lopez as El Flaco Fenessa Pineda as Gizelle Marco de la O as Manuel Rick Zingale as Don Miguel Manuel Uriza as Doctor Sergio Mirka Prieto as Lola / Laura Sheila Shah as Alejandra

SYNOPSIS:

Eleven years after the events in Burma, Vietnam War veteran John Rambo lives in Bowie, Arizona in his deceased father's horse ranch, which he manages with his old friend, Maria Beltran, and her granddaughter, Gabriela. Gabriela reveals to Rambo that a friend of hers, Gizelle, has found Gabriela's biological father, Miguel, in Mexico. Against Rambo and Maria's wishes, Gabriela secretly drives to Mexico to ask why Miguel had abandoned Gabriela and her mother years ago. Gizelle leads Gabriela to Miguel's apartment, where he reveals to her that he never really cared for Gabriela or her mother. Gizelle takes a heartbroken Gabriela to a local club, where Gabriela is drugged and kidnapped by enforcers of a Mexican cartel. Meanwhile, Maria informs Rambo of Gabriela's disappearance in Mexico. Rambo travels to Mexico and interrogates both Miguel and Gizelle about Gabriela's whereabouts. Gizelle reluctantly leads Rambo to the club where Gabriela was last seen and confronts El Flaco, the man who last spoke with Gabriela. A mysterious woman, Carmen Delgado, tails Rambo as El Flaco leads him to Gabriela's location. Rambo is immediately confronted, beaten, and marked by the cartel, led by brothers Hugo and Victor Martinez. They take his driver's license, revealing the ranch's location, and a photo of Gabriela, whom Victor recognizes. The cartel vow to mistreat Gabriela further due to Rambo's actions. Carmen takes Rambo back to her home where she cares for him until he fully recovers. While Rambo is being cared for by Carmen, Gabriella is stripped and consistently dosed with heroin and sold to be raped repeatedly. Carmen reveals herself to be an independent journalist who has been investigating the Martinez brothers, the kidnappers and murderers of her sister. Rambo later raids one of the brothels, killing several men until he finds a drugged Gabriela. On the way back home, Rambo thanks Gabriela for giving him hope for ten years before she dies from the forced overdose. Enraged, Rambo sends Maria away and rigs the ranch with traps for a confrontation, and later returns to Mexico to ask Carmen's help in finding Victor. Carmen initially refuses, believing that it will solve nothing, but is convinced after Rambo appeals to her grief and frustrations. Rambo raids Victor's home, killing several guards and decapitating Victor. In retaliation, Hugo leads a group of hitmen to Rambo's ranch, where each falls victim to the rigged traps. Saving Hugo for the last, Rambo mutilates him and rips his heart out. In the aftermath, a weakened Rambo sits on the porch of his father's house, vowing to continue fighting and to keep the memories of his loved ones alive. During the credits, Rambo saddles up his horse and rides off into the sunset.