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Drama: War & Disaster

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24/06/2001

BBC One - Platoon

War drama following a 19-year-old college drop-out who signs up for service in Vietnam.

Oscar-winning war drama following a college drop-out who signs up for service in Vietnam in September 1967 and finds himself plunged into the bloody chaos of life on the frontline.

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.

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