Sentence examples for war platoon from inspiring English sources
"Redacted" is a low-budget experimental film without stars, although there are remnants of the traditional Second World War platoon movie.
The darker mood favoured by The Deer Hunter, Casualties of War, Platoon and the like even infected attitudes to earlier "good wars".
In Berlin, on Saturday, while promoting his new movie The Monuments Men – based on the second world war platoon which rescued and returned thousands of artworks stolen by the Nazis – Clooney said it would be "very nice" if the marbles went back to Greece.
It also helped tilt the world's view of Morrison that he and the band were lionized by filmmaker Oliver Stone, both in Stone's prominent placement of Doors' music in his 1986 film about the Vietnam War, "Platoon," as well as the 1991 biopic "The Doors".
For once, let's blast through all the politically correct nonsense, and have a real war, with platoon after platoon of hot, disciplined, gung-ho guys charging directly at the penises and scrotums of the opposing forces.
They seem as carefully selected for diversity as the soldiers in a World War II platoon picture.
Stone again drew on the trauma of the Vietnam War in Platoon (1986), for which he won another Academy Award, this time for directing.
Francesco Quinn, a television and film actor who appeared in Oliver Stone's searing 1986 Vietnam War film, "Platoon,", died on Friday in Malibu, Calif.
His last great role was that of another determined World War II platoon leader in Samuel Fuller's The Big Red One (1980).
John C. McGinley, who played the acid-tongued Dr. Perry Cox on the NBC comedy "Scrubs" and the tough-as-nails Sergeant O'Neill in Oliver Stone's Vietnam War drama, "Platoon," will play the embittered real estate salesman Dave Moss in the "Glengarry" revival, its producers said on Monday.
There is probably no piece of classical music written in the 20th century that is better known or more associated with grief than Barber's Adagio for Strings — it was played at the funerals of John F. Kennedy and Franklin D. Roosevelt, popularized by Oliver Stone's 1986 Vietnam War film, "Platoon," and remixed by numerous D.J.s and pop singers.
