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Events on Friday 19 December 1986 1
1986Platoon releasedOliver Stone's Vietnam War film opens in theatersOliver Stone's Platoon, drawn from his own combat experience, opened in US theaters and went on to win the Academy Award for Best Picture. It was among the first major Hollywood films to portray the Vietnam War from an infantry soldier's perspective without overt heroism. The film's success prompted a wave of similarly unflinching war films.