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Duration: 2 hours

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 frontline.

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.

Last on

Sat 8 Dec 2007 23:25 BBC One except HD

Credits

Actor
Tom Berenger
Actor
Willem Dafoe
Actor
Charlie Sheen
Actor
Forest Whitaker
Actor
Francesco Quinn
Actor
Kevin Dillon
Director
Oliver Stone

Broadcasts

  • Fri 16 Feb 2007 23:15 BBC One only on Cambridgeshire, East, East Midlands, North East & Cumbria, North West, South, South East, West, Yorks & Lincs

  • Wed 23 May 2007 22:00 BBC Three

  • Sat 8 Dec 2007 23:25 BBC One except HD

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