The film was the fourth highest-rated film broadcast on television in the United States at the time with a Nielsen rating of 385 and an audience share of 65.

Platoon movie wiki. SPECIAL - AAF Platoon vs. In 1977 Patton was among the first 50 VHS and Betamax releases from Magnetic Video. Composed and directed by Oliver Stone it informs the gruesome story of a Vietnam War not understood by the American public.

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Platoon 1986 Soundtrack 18 Dec 1986 As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man. The film was released to the cinemas in the USA on 19 December 1986. Chris Taylor a neophyte recruit in Vietnam finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants one good and the other evil.

A platoon is typically the smallest military unit led by a commissioned officer. Hell is the impossibility of. 2 Staff Sergeant Bob Barnes.

It was released in 1986 and won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Upon arrival he quickly discovers that his presence is qu. Tom Beringer who plays the knowledgeable Sergeant Barnes was nominated in the Finest Supporting Actor category along with Willem Defoe who plays Sergeant Elias.

Adam Glover and Sal Richard Edson are killed when they stumble upon a booby trap attached to a box of documents. The director and staunch anti-war activist was only 21 years old when he enlisted for combat duty in Vietnam. And we are finally left with not only the platoon but almost the entire 25th infantry overrun by the enemy sustaining enormous loss of lives.