The Meta-Narrative of American History "One man's dream is another man's nightmare", and perhaps the war of 'One Nation' is a potential Hollywood film. While many Hollywood filmmakers saw their true calling as presenting the subject of war to audiences by creating images that, according to McCrisken and Pepper, allowed them to "critically grapple with complex questions about what constitutes “America” nationally and internationally. -Cold War world. One topic that leaves little or no room for debate is the perception that Hollywood directors, with their educational and informational themes, typically resort to films to convey messages and inform their viewers of the "big picture" that they seem to have seen. so quickly. This is the case of the two high-profile war films that are the subject of debate in this thesis, Oliver Stone's Platoon (1986) and David Russell's Three Kings (1999). Upon their release, with emphasis on the former, they both created a real buzz that attracted the attention of many historians and created a controversy that would be put under the microscope and thus promoting a historical investigation that Americans would want soon to unravel (McCrisken & Poivre, 2005). In order to better understand the topic at hand, it is extremely important to address the perceived reasons behind the U.S. military's advances in the Vietnam War and its involvement in the Gulf War. (thesis statement here?) “Platoon” by Oliver Stone: 1986 On the one hand, although Stone evades and gives very little information about the motives for the war, the original origin of the war is believed to of Vietnam was the result of the consequences of the Cold War - many believe...... middle of paper ....... Speech at the 46th session of the United Nations General Assembly in New York. Retrieved April 7, 2014, from the Public Records of the Presidents of the United States of America: http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/?pid=20012McCrisken, TB and Pepper, A. (2005). American history and contemporary Hollywood cinema. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press. Rosenstone, R. A. (2000). Oliver Stone as historian. In RB Toplin, Oliver Stone's USA: Film, History and Controversy (pp. 27-28). Kansas: University of Kansas Press. Vidal, G. (2002). Perpetual war for perpetual peace: how we got to be so hated. New York: Nation Books. Rollins, PC and O'Connor, JE (2008). Why We Fought: America's Wars in Film and History. Lexington, KY: University Press of Kentucky. Bush, G.H.W. and Scowcroft, B. (1998). A transformed world. New York: Alfred A. Knopf.