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Jarhead

IMDB Rating: 7.30
29913 votes

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Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows "Swoff" (Gyllenhaal), a third-generation enlistee, from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, sporting a sniper's rifle and a hundred-pound ruck on his back through Middle East deserts with no cover from intolerable heat or from Iraqi soldiers, always potentially just over the next horizon. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand against an enemy they can't see for a cause they don't fully fathom... Foxx portrays Sergeant Sykes, a Marine lifer who heads up Swofford's scout/sniper platoon, while Sarsgaard is Swoff's friend and mentor, Troy, a die-hard member of STA-their elite Marine Unit.
Actors
SwoffJake Gyllenhaal
D.I. FitchScott MacDonald
Bored GunnyLo Ming
Also posted in 2005, Action, Biography, Drama, High IMDB rating, War | Comments (0)

Windtalkers

IMDB Rating: 5.80
10912 votes

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In the close quarters and brutal fighting of the World War II Pacific Theater, the U.S. Intelligence services desperately seek a fool-proof encryption code, immune to the code breakers of the Japanese. The answer is soon discovered in the ancient language of the Navajo. Enlisted into the Marine Corps are several "Windtalkers" who are deployed to frontline areas in the Pacific, to use their language as an impossible-to-crack secret code. A drawback, however, is that the U.S. military soon puts forth a directive that the Windtalkers must never be captured alive by the enemy, so additional Marines are assigned to make certian that this directive is carried out to the letter.
Actors
Sergeant Joe EndersNicolas Cage
Private Ben YahzeeAdam Beach
Gunnery Sergeant HjelmstadPeter Stormare
Also posted in 2002, Action, Drama, War | Comments (11)

We Were Soldiers

IMDB Rating: 7.00
17524 votes

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In a place soon to be known as The Valley of Death, in a small clearing called landing zone X-Ray, Lt. Colonel Hal Moore (Mel Gibson) and 400 young fathers, husbands, brothers, and sons, all troopers from an elite American combat division, were surrounded by 4,000 North Vietnamese soldiers. The ensuing battle was one of the most savage in U.S. history. We Were Soldiers Once...And Young is a tribute to the nobility of those men under fire, their common acts of uncommon valor, and their loyalty to and love for one another.
Actors
Lt. Col. Hal MooreMel Gibson
Julie MooreMadeleine Stowe
Maj. Bruce 'Snake' CrandallGreg Kinnear
Also posted in 2002, Action, Drama, High IMDB rating, History, War | Comments (16)
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