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	Midnight Express [DVD] [1978] Buy used from: £2.61 Scripted by Stone, who won an Oscar - a bit racist and fictional. Brad Davis great as usual...
	Conan The Barbarian (2 Disc Special Edition) [1981] [DVD] Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.00 Scripted by Stone, this is closer to Stone's screenplay and much better than rubbish like 'The Hand'
	Scarface (2 Disc Special Edition) [DVD] [1983] Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £0.74 It's quite empty & very 80s - Stone brings Cuban-politics into the cocaine-mix...Very OTT and seen as a classic. Not exactly 'Once Upon a Time in America'
	Year of the Dragon [DVD] Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £4.30 Another one scripted by Stone and accused of racism/stereotyping....
	Oliver Stone: Interviews (Conversations with filmmakers series) by Charles L.P. Silet Buy new: £19.99 / Used from: £3.81 This discusses most of Stone's oeuvre...
	Oliver Stone's U.S.A.: Film, History and Controversy by Oliver Stone Buy used from: £8.11 This is the best book on Stone....
	Salvador--Special Edition [DVD] [1985] Buy new: £5.98 / Used from: £1.51 His first masterpiece and one of the greatest war films made...
	Platoon [DVD] [1987] Buy used from: £0.54 A very good film, though JG Ballard's criticism in 'A User's Guide to the Millennium' has some credence...
	Wall Street [1988] [DVD] Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £2.97 A very good 80s-themed film, less silly than 'Scarface' & probably what 'The Bonfire of the Vanities' should have been like....
	Talk Radio [DVD] [1988] [Region 1] [US Import] [NTSC] Buy used from: £2.68 Neglected work in Stone's canon - shows him gearing up to be combatative....
	Born On The Fourth Of July [DVD] [1989] Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £1.29 The second 'Nam-themed film, based on Ron Kovic's excellent autobiography....One of Cruise's best performances-
	The Doors - Special Edition [DVD] [1991] Buy used from: £3.95 Quite silly, but sometimes enjoyable...better than 'Velvet Goldmine', which it is probably responsible for-
	JFK - Special Edition Directors Cut (2 Disc Edition) [1991] [DVD] Buy used from: £8.99 Another masterpiece- though the facts are delivered 'Rashomon'-style - so Stone isn't saying what the truth is. Kind of messed up his career- knives out for Stone at this point-
	"JFK": The Book of the Film (Applause Screenplay) (Applause Screenplay Series) by Oliver Stone Buy new: £14.50 / Used from: £9.74 This is the supporting book- with lots of evidence of conformist journos taking him to task for JFK...
	A Child's Night Dream by Oliver Stone Buy new: £8.99 / Used from: £1.44 This is Stone's quite bad modernist-inflected novel, written prior to his going to Vietnam. Read Conrad instead....
	Heaven And Earth [DVD] [1994] Buy used from: £1.80 Dissappointing third Nam themed film - it means well, but patchy. Still, not often you see that war from non-American eyes....
	Natural Born Killers - Director's Cut [DVD] [1995] Buy used from: £0.99 Another controversy and a messy masterpiece - this is the director's cut with bonus joys galore....
	Nixon [DVD] [1996] Buy new: £4.58 / Used from: £2.09 Another masterpiece and Stone's greatest work - will be seen as important in years to come....
	Evita [DVD] [1997] Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £1.51 Stone co-wrote the screenplay and almost directed it several times....
	"Nixon" by Oliver Stone Buy used from: £0.11 Here's the tie-in book to 'Nixon', almost forgot it! Great notes/interviews as well as screenplay.....
	U-Turn [DVD] [1998] Buy used from: £0.64 I thought he was trying to hard to appease Tarantino's criticisms of NBK; irrelevant now 'Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia' is on DVD....
	Any Given Sunday [DVD] [2000] Buy new: £3.98 / Used from: £0.89 Awful film- American football meets 'Wall Street'= Pacino doing his shouty thing and the film never ends.....
	Comandante [DVD] [2003] Buy new: £4.98 / Used from: £9.00 Interesting documentary, though excuses Castro's human rights record....would like to see the Arafat-documentary also....Stone's comedy moustache is fun as well!
	Alexander - Director's Cut [DVD] [2004] Buy new: £5.48 / Used from: £0.44 As bad as reviews were- is this the director's cut? Am sure a good film is in there somewhere. The Robin Lane Fox book is great though...
	Oliver Stone (Pocket Essentials) by Michael Carlson Buy new: £3.99 / Used from: £0.01 Good budget overview....