Platoon

In the 1980s, Stone won Oscars for Vietnam War films "Platoon" and "Born on the Fourth of July," but later drew criticism for his take on history in the movie "JFK" and for his documentary about Cuban leader Fidel Castro, "Comandante."

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...since the fall of communism will be explored. Stone, the Academy Award-winning director of "Platoon" and "Born on the Fourth of July," will serve as executive producer and narrator for the series. It's set to debut next year on Showtime.

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...U.S. support for the war. Stone, a Vietnam veteran and multiple Oscar winner, has produced three previous movies on the Vietnam War, including Platoon, Born on the Fourth of July and Heaven and Earth. Stone was accompanied by producer...

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...to it -- was trendy again. Oliver Stone, a Vietnam veteran, released Platoon in December 1986, and Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket came seven months later, both to great critical and box-office acclaim. (Platoon won the Oscar for Best...

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...that he became a star thanks to his performance as the archetypal good American solider in Stone's PLATOON (followed a couple years later by Stone's BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY). From there, Dafoe began an unbelievable run with movies like...

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...could speak directly to the American people and policymakers," said Nita Chaudhary, a MoveOn.org campaigner. Stone won best director Oscars for "Born on the Fourth of July" and "Platoon." He won a screenwriting Oscar for "Midnight Express."

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...of "dictator", despite having survived a coup and having stayed in power for a decade. Stone's previous films include Platoon, JFK and Nixon "The guy has survived 12 electoral processes," he comments. "Jimmy Carter went down to...

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...close to Iran's elite Revolutionary Guard. Stone, who won best director Oscars for his movies "Born on the Fourth of July" and "Platoon" and a screenwriting Oscar for "Midnight Express," has made movies about former U.S. Presidents...

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...no stranger to controversy. He stimulated cunnilingus on Madonna in a car park in Body of Evidence, and outraged the moral majority with a dying crucifixion pose in his Oscar-nominated turn in Oliver Stone's Platoon. He then set the tiger among...

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