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Platoon

Vivid, Oscar-winning war drama following a 19-year-old college drop-out who signs up for service in Vietnam in 1967 and is plunged into the bloody chaos of life on the front line.

Vivid, harrowing war drama following a 19-year-old college drop-out who signs up for service in Vietnam in September 1967 and finds himself plunged into the bloody chaos of life as a GI on the front line.

The winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Director and Best Picture, this is an uncompromising and semi-autobiographical study of men at war from writer-director Oliver Stone.

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1 hour, 52 minutes

On TV

Thursday21:00
BBC Four

Credits

DirectorOliver Stone
ChrisCharlie Sheen
Sergeant BarnesTom Berenger
Sergeant EliasWillem Dafoe
KingKeith David
Big HaroldForest Whitaker
RhahFrancesco Quinn
BunnyKevin Dillon
Sergeant O'NeillJohn C McGinley
JuniorReggie Johnson
Lieutenant WolfeMark Moses
LernerJohnny Depp
TexDavid Neidorf
SalRichard Edson

Broadcasts

  • Fri 16 Feb 200723:15
    BBC One except London, Northern Ireland & Scotland
  • Sunday22:00
    BBC Two HD, England, Wales & Wales HD only
  • Sunday23:30
    BBC Two Northern Ireland & Northern Ireland HD only
  • Thursday21:00
    BBC Four

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