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Platoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Keith David, Kevin Dillon, John C. McGinley, Forest Whitaker, and Johnny Depp.
Midway through the movie, Elias is betrayed and fatally wounded by Barnes, who tells the rest of the platoon — including its newest member, Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) — that he's been killed ...
Hamburger Hill is a 1987 American war film set during the Battle of Hamburger Hill, a May 1969 assault during the Vietnam War by the U.S. Army's 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry, 101st Airborne Division, on a ridge of Dong Ap Bia near the Laotian border in central Vietnam.
Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "C" on an A+ to F scale. [26] Gene Siskel described The Thin Red Line as the "finest contemporary war film I've seen, supplanting Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan from earlier this year, or even Oliver Stone's Platoon from 1986."
Platoon Leader is a memoir by James R. McDonough. [1] It is narrated by McDonough in first person view and tells of his story in the Vietnam War as a lieutenant in command of 2nd Platoon, Bravo Company, 4th Battalion, 503rd Infantry(Airborne). It was loosely adapted into the 1988 film Platoon Leader.
Warning: This post contains spoilers for the movie Queer.. Luca Guadagnino’s Queer, based on the semi-autobiographical novella by William S. Burroughs, appears fairly straightforward on its ...
Casualties of War is a 1989 American war drama film directed by Brian De Palma and written by David Rabe, based primarily on an article written by Daniel Lang for The New Yorker in 1969, which was later published as a book. [3]
The movie, starring Joey King, is based on Scott Westerfeld’s 2005 novel of the same name. A dystopia, "Uglies" unfolds in a world with a unique coming-of-age ritual.