Inducted into the Marine Corps at a 1967 Twins game with 149 others, North Branch author Christy Sauro spent years collecting ...

The movie was written and directed by Oliver Stone, who also served in the conflict and was the first Hollywood movie written ...

The 1986 war film praised for its realistic portrayal is the first Hollywood movie written and directed by someone who served ...

Stanley Kubrick made some of the greatest war movies of all time, and this film in particular has been singled out for praise ...

The ’Platoon’ director reconciles then and now on the anniversary of the Vietnam War’s end. By Oliver Stone, as told to Seth Abramovitch April 30 marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of ...

“Platoon” (1986) The 1980s saw a wave of Hollywood films about Vietnam, including “First Blood,” “Hamburger Hill,” “Good Morning Vietnam,” “Casualties of War” and “Born on ...

More faithful to Conrad than to Vietnam, Apocalypse Now does not so much illuminate the chaos and moral confusion of the war as elevate it to a grandiose nightmare. 6. Platoon (1986) ...

The Vietnam War cast a long shadow across one of the most fertile periods of American filmmaking, ... “Platoon” (1986) The 1980s saw a wave of Hollywood films about Vietnam, ...

The 1980s saw a wave of Hollywood films about Vietnam, including “First Blood,” “Hamburger Hill,” “Good Morning Vietnam,” “Casualties of War” and “Born on the Fourth of July.” ...