Oliver Stone, the Outsider

Oliver Stone is the guilty conscience of an America to which he’s always ready to show its own flaws. The director of Platoon, Wall Street, Born on the Fourth of July, JFK and Natural Born Killers, he sees cinema as a quest for truth thatborders on obsession.

Oliver Stone is the bad conscience of an America, whose flaws he regularly points at. The Vietnam War and Kennedy’s assassination were two traumatic events that changed America forever. And cinema is for Stone a means to seek the Truth – almost an obsession – that has its roots in those events. Stone’s astonishing personal archive and filmography will be the thread line of the narration. This unique access will not only recount the personal story of the man but will shed light on his times and country