Winner of the Academy™ Award for Best Picture (1986), and based on the first-hand experience of Oscar®-winning director Oliver Stone, this is "a dark and unforgettable memorial" (The Washington Post) to every soldier whose innocence was lost in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam.

The film follows young Chris Taylor (Charlie Sheen) who arrives in Vietnam and quickly discovers that he must do battle with, not only the Viet Cong, but also the gnawing fear, physical exhaustion and intense anger growing within him. In outstanding Oscar®-nominated performances, Tom Berenger and Willem Dafoe co-star as Sergeants Barnes and Elias – one hard and callous, the other tough yet compassionate. The two officers draw a fine line between the war they wage against the enemy and the one they fight with each other – dangerously dividing the loyalty of the men they have to lead. Fierce, intense and starkly realistic, Platoon is a powerful war picture like no other!

A intense drama examining the fight between good and evil among an American infantry platoon in the jungles of Vietnam. Harrowingly realistic and completely convincing, it is a dark, unforgettable memorial to every soldier whose innocence was lost in the war-torn jungles of Vietnam. Writer/director Stone draws on his own first-hand experiences of combat and takes a close look at the life of foot soldiers, as seen through the eyes of a new recruit.