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Platoon

Duration: 2 hours

First broadcast: on BBC One North East & CumbriaLatest broadcast: on BBC One Wales

Vivid, harrowing war drama following a 19-year-old college drop-out who signs up for service in Vietnam in September 1967 and finds himself plunged into the bloody chaos of life as a GI on the frontline.

The winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Picture, this is an uncompromising and semi-autobiographical study of men at war from writer-director Oliver Stone. Show less

Contributors

Director:
Oliver Stone
Sergeant Barnes:
Tom Berenger
Sergeant Elias:
Willem Dafoe
Big Harold:
Forest Whitaker
Sergeant O'Neill:
John C McGinley
Lieutenant Wolfe:
Mark Moses

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