Cross-media picks for Oliver Stone fans — films, series, games and books in the same vein.
These picks orbit a particular strain of American unease — conspiracies that reach into the corridors of power, wars that leave marks long after the shooting stops, and institutions that promise order while concealing rot. Whether you're drawn to morally cornered protagonists, procedural tension unravelling in real time, or narratives that treat political violence as a systemic problem rather than a personal one, you'll find that same hard-edged scepticism threading through Traffic, Generation Kill, Johnny Got His Gun, and everything else here.
Film
Stone
A morally tangled face-off between a parole officer and a manipulative convict probes guilt and institutional complicity.
Film
The Assassination of Richard Nixon
A desperate man's unravelling blame spirals into political rage in a tightly wound portrait of 1970s American grievance.
Film
The Killing
A ticking heist built on betrayal and insider corruption, where the best-laid plan meets human weakness.
Film
Dirty War
A procedural thriller tracking a terrorist operation versus unprepared authorities — institutional failure rendered in real time.
Film
A Bag of Marbles
Two Jewish boys flee Nazi-occupied France in a survival story that puts ideology and family loyalty under extreme pressure.
Film
Traffic
A multi-perspective dissection of America's drug war shows how policy, family and corruption interlock across every social layer.
Film
Stone
Political assassination and outlaw subculture collide in a gritty thriller where the real enemy is the state's invisible hand.
Film
Shooter
A betrayed military sniper uncovers a high-level government conspiracy, questioning who really holds power in America.
Series
Oliver Stone's Untold History of the United States
A revisionist look at American history surfaces the events and decisions that official narratives prefer to leave buried.
Series
The Secret
A true-crime drama exposes a respectable community figure's secret murderous double life — trust as the ultimate weapon.
Series
Deep State
A retired spy pulled back for one last job discovers the agency he served has no intention of letting him walk away.
Series
The World in Front
A weekly current-affairs forum for the kind of hard political scrutiny that refuses easy answers.
Series
White War
Three police friends united by loyalty fracture under the weight of a major narcotics investigation — brotherhood versus duty.
Series
To Catch a Smuggler
Embedded documentary footage of law enforcement battling cross-border smuggling lays bare the mechanics of an endless war.
Series
Generation Kill
An unflinching ground-level account of the Iraq invasion's first weeks, told through the soldiers ordered to execute it.
Series
XIII
A presidential assassination and a cover-up that reaches deep inside government — conspiracy thriller at its most operatic.
Game
Scarface: The World Is Yours
Tony Montana rebuilds his empire from nothing — a visceral power fantasy about vengeance, turf, and unfinished business.
Game
Made Man
Vietnam trauma and organised crime intertwine as one soldier's war follows him straight into the criminal underworld.
Game
The Suffering: Ties That Bind
Inner demons and street-level violence merge in a dark thriller where the city itself feels like a punishing system.
Game
Fracture
A near-future American civil war turns the land itself into a battlefield — conflict as the end-state of a fractured society.
Game
MAG
Geopolitical collapse triggers a massive proxy war — resource scarcity and corporate power as the real engines of conflict.
Game
Blacksite
Government secrets hidden in a small American town spill into the open, testing how much the state will do to keep them buried.
Game
DTR: Retribution
A betrayed vice cop wages a one-man war against corruption — authority turned upside down and punished by its own system.
Game
Line of Sight: Vietnam
An elite sniper in Vietnam hunts an elusive enemy in a taut, atmospheric game of patience, precision and survival.
Book
The life we bury
A writing assignment draws a student into the story of a dying Vietnam vet convicted of murder — guilt defying easy verdicts.
Book
The stone that never came down
Civic decay and viral mind-control in a near-future world where ideology itself becomes a weapon of mass destruction.
Book
One Was a Soldier
Veterans haunted by Iraq try to rebuild civilian lives while a murder investigation pulls them back into darkness.
Book
Time bomb
A schoolyard shooting spirals into layered conspiracy as a psychologist discovers the real target was something far larger.
Book
The exile
Police corruption and a government conspiracy entrap an LAPD rookie and his mute sister in a lethal international web.
Book
Ace in the Hole
A religious leader schemes to control a political convention in a thriller where power and civil rights hang in the balance.
Book
Johnny Got His Gun
A soldier left with no face, no limbs, no voice in WWI becomes a devastating indictment of the lies nations tell to justify war.
Book
The Smoking Mirror
A woman caught in a wartime card game is swept into a dangerous espionage world where every alliance is a potential trap.
Start with Traffic for its multi-threaded look at systemic failure, Generation Kill for unsparing military realism, or Deep State if you want a spy thriller built around institutional betrayal and a handler who knows too much.
Johnny Got His Gun is essential — a devastating anti-war novel about a WWI soldier reduced to nothing, a direct reckoning with what nations ask men to sacrifice. The Life We Bury pairs Vietnam trauma with a present-day murder investigation, and The Exile drops its protagonists into a government conspiracy with nowhere to run.
Made Man traces organised crime through the shadow of Vietnam, MAG frames near-future warfare as the direct consequence of resource politics, and Line of Sight: Vietnam puts you in the sniper's slow, morally weighted patience.