Written and directed by Vietnam veteran Oliver Stone with a brilliant cast including Willem Dafoe, Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Kevin Dillon, Johnny Depp and Forest Whitaker. Platoon is a brutal vision of war and won Stone both Best Picture and Best Director Academy Awards.

Platoon is semi-autobiographical of Stone’s own experiences in Vietnam and was the first in his Vietnam trilogy with Born on the Fourth of July and Heaven & Earth subsequently showing the war from different perspectives. Platoon reveals the horrors of war through the eyes of a young soldier (Charlie Sheen) and its tagline was “The first casualty of war is innocence.”