Platoon is a 1986 American war film written and directed by Oliver Stone, starring Tom Berenger, Willem Dafoe, Charlie Sheen, Keith David, Kevin Dillon, John C. McGinley, Forest Whitaker, and Johnny Depp. It is the first film of a trilogy of Vietnam War films directed by Stone, followed by Born on the Fourth of July (1989) and Heaven & Earth (1993). The film, based on Stone's experience from the war, follows a new U.S. Army volunteer (Sheen) serving in Vietnam while his Platoon Sergeant and his

Platoon and Full Metal Jacket stand as two of the most defining Vietnam War films ever made. Platoon directed by Oliver Stone tore open the human cost of war by showing how loyalty brotherhood and morality collapsed under the weight of battle. Full Metal Jacket by Stanley Kubrick drilled deep into the psychological chaos of soldiers reduced to machines and then unleashed into madness. Platoon showed the emotional scars of war while Full Metal Jacket showed its cold inhuman design. Both left audi