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Platoon

1986 · War · Oliver Stone · 1h 55m

A volunteer arrives in Vietnam in 1967 and finds his platoon split between two sergeants who hate each other. Muddy, exhausting, and narrated in letters home.

  • Strongly realistic
  • Strongly heavy

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