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Platoon

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Last broadcast on Sat, 8 Dec 2007, 23:35 on BBC One (London only) (see all broadcasts).

Synopsis

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.

Credits

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

Broadcasts

  1. Wed 23 May 2007
    22:00
  2. Sat 8 Dec 2007
    23:35

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