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Oliver Stone

10 Films

Oliver Stone

10 Included Films

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William Oliver Stone (born September 15, 1946) is an American film director and screenwriter. Stone became known in the late 1980s and the early 1990s for directing a series of films about the Vietnam War, in which he had participated as an American infantry soldier. His work frequently focuses on contemporary political and cultural issues, often controversially. He has received three Academy Awards: Best Adapted Screenplay for Midnight Express (1978), and Best Director for Platoon (1986) and Born on the Fourth of July (1989). Stone's movies often use many different cameras and film formats, including VHS, 8 mm film, and 70 mm film. He sometimes uses several formats in a single scene, as in Natural Born Killers (1994) and JFK (1991).

1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

MGM Blu-ray

Best Video:

MGM Blu-ray, better than 2022 Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray due to poor encode and heavy DNR (review)

Platoon poster
1080p Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

MGM Blu-ray

Best Video:

MGM Blu-ray, better than 2022 Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray due to poor encode and heavy DNR (review)

UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Twilight Time Blu-ray or MGM NTSC DVD for the original mono mix

  • Shout! Factory 4K only has a stereo downmix (which sounds muffled, as do the surround tracks)

  • Twilight Time Blu-ray has the mono track with seemingly the best fidelity, but its dynamic range has been heavily compressed

  • MoC UK Blu-ray has a proper dynamics and good fidelity, but bizzarely, everything is repeated after a few miliseconds, rendering echoey and metallic

  • MGM NTSC DVD has been denoised and has had a strong EQ applied and sounds muffled as a result, but it retains proper dynamics

  • Koch Media DE BD had poor dynamics and wrong pitch

  • Analog 1986 US LaserDisc sounds poor

Perhaps the digital JP LD would be better.

Salvador poster
UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Twilight Time Blu-ray or MGM NTSC DVD for the original mono mix

  • Shout! Factory 4K only has a stereo downmix (which sounds muffled, as do the surround tracks)

  • Twilight Time Blu-ray has the mono track with seemingly the best fidelity, but its dynamic range has been heavily compressed

  • MoC UK Blu-ray has a proper dynamics and good fidelity, but bizzarely, everything is repeated after a few miliseconds, rendering echoey and metallic

  • MGM NTSC DVD has been denoised and has had a strong EQ applied and sounds muffled as a result, but it retains proper dynamics

  • Koch Media DE BD had poor dynamics and wrong pitch

  • Analog 1986 US LaserDisc sounds poor

Perhaps the digital JP LD would be better.

UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Theatrical Cut 4K Blu-ray in August

Best Video:

Director's Cut: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Theatrical Cut: Shout! Factory Blu-ray (included with collector's edition)

JFK poster
UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Upcoming Release:

Theatrical Cut 4K Blu-ray in August

Best Video:

Director's Cut: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Theatrical Cut: Shout! Factory Blu-ray (included with collector's edition)

UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Theatrical: WB Theatrical DVD

Director's Cut: WB Director's Cut DVD

Final Cut: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Ultimate Cut: WB Ultimate Cut Blu-ray

Best Video:

Theatrical: WB Theatrical DVD

Director's Cut: WB Director's Cut DVD

Final Cut: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Ultimate Cut: WB Ultimate Cut Blu-ray

Alexander poster
UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Theatrical: WB Theatrical DVD

Director's Cut: WB Director's Cut DVD

Final Cut: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Ultimate Cut: WB Ultimate Cut Blu-ray

Best Video:

Theatrical: WB Theatrical DVD

Director's Cut: WB Director's Cut DVD

Final Cut: Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Ultimate Cut: WB Ultimate Cut Blu-ray

World Trade Center poster
Letterboxd
UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

2025 Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

2025 Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Atmos remix: 2025 Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray
Original 5.1 surround mix: 2007 Paramount Blu-ray (lossy AC-3 640k)

The original mix has better dynamics range. The 5.1 tracks on the SF release are downmixes.

Additional Info:

Target exclusive 3 disc DVD have extras omitted from the Shout! Factory release

Best English-Friendly:

2025 Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Best Video:

2025 Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Best Audio:

Atmos remix: 2025 Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray
Original 5.1 surround mix: 2007 Paramount Blu-ray (lossy AC-3 640k)

The original mix has better dynamics range. The 5.1 tracks on the SF release are downmixes.

Additional Info:

Target exclusive 3 disc DVD have extras omitted from the Shout! Factory release

UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Savages poster
UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

Snowden poster
UHD Blu-ray
Best English-Friendly:

Shout! Factory 4K Blu-ray

10 films

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