Empire - Extended interview: Oliver Stone - 'Triumphalist narrative'

Oliver Stone is an Oscar-winning director and writer renowned for films like Platoon , the cult movie Natural Born Killers , and Nixon , which interrogate American culture, history and politics.

He has been described by British film critic Philip French as “one of the few committed men of the left working in mainstream American cinema.”

Stone’s 2012 ten-part documentary series, Oliver Stone’s Untold History of the United States , and the companion book, co-written with historian Peter Kuznick, examines the rise of the US national security state, which they trace back to the atomic bomb, and the overlooked events that have shaped American history.

Stone joined Empire again to discuss the story telling method he pursues in his movies, American history and power.