10 Best Movies Like Platoon
If you loved Platoon, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.
The Last Full Measure
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Platoon for fans of Drama & War & Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon st...
Casualties of War
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Platoon for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
During the Vietnam War, a soldier finds himself the outsider of his own squad when they unnecessarily kidnap a female villager....
Full Metal Jacket
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Platoon for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue....
Apocalypse Now
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Platoon for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and el...
Hamburger Hill
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Platoon for fans of Drama & War & Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.
The men of Bravo Company are facing a battle that's all uphill… up Hamburger Hill. Fourteen war-weary soldiers are battling for a mud-covered mound of earth so named because it che...
Birdy
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Platoon for fans of Drama & War. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.
Two young men are seriously affected by the Vietnam War. One of them has always been obsessed with birds - but now believes he really is a bird, and has been sent to a mental hospi...