The film draws directly from Stone’s personal experiences as a soldier in Vietnam, offering a raw and unfiltered look at the psychological and physical toll of war. Set in 1967, Platoon follows ...
The Losers (not to be confused with the 2010 film of the same name), directed by Jack Starret, is a bombastic and chaotically ...
A military history expert gives low marks for realism to Michael J. Fox’s controversial 1989 Brian De Palma-directed Vietnam War movie.
This explains why one of the rare Vietnam movies of the period ... such as Apocalypse Now, Platoon, and Full Metal Jacket.