Platoon (Bilingual Special Edition) (Award Series Collection) - DVDFormat: NTSC Release Date: 21 11 2008 Details: Winner* of 4 Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and based on the first hand experience of Oscar winning** director Oliver Stone, Platoon is powerful, intense and starkly brutal. "Harrowingly realistic and completely convincing" (Leonard Maltin), it is "a dark, unforgettable memorial" (The Washington Post) to every soldier whose innocence was lost in the war torn jungles of Vietnam. Chris Taylor