Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Lone Survivor is a 2013 American action drama film based on the 2007 nonfiction book by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson.Set during the war in Afghanistan, it dramatizes the unsuccessful United States Navy SEALs counter-insurgent mission Operation Red Wings, during which a four-man SEAL reconnaissance and surveillance team was given the task of tracking down the Taliban leader Ahmad Shah.
The film dramatizes the real-life Navy SEAL rescue of the Maersk Alabama hijacking by Somali pirates. [3] Deadly Heroes: 1993: Michael Paré portrays a former Navy SEAL who is captured and tortured. [7] The Finest Hour: 1991: The film features two men who enter Navy SEAL training and become best friends. [8] G.I. Jane: 1997
Tears of the Sun is a 2003 American action thriller film [4] directed by Antoine Fuqua.It depicts a fictitious U.S. Navy SEAL team rescue mission amidst the 21st-century version of the civil war in Nigeria.
The film based on Phillips' book names the three Walid Elmi, Nour Najee, and Adan Bilal. Their bodies were later turned over by the U.S. Navy to unidentified recipients in Somalia. [34] Two former Navy SEALs have claimed participation in the rescue: Matt Bissonnette (using the nom de plume Mark Owen) and Robert J. O'Neill.
Thirteen Lives is a 2022 biographical survival film, based on the Tham Luang cave rescue, ... for the rescue, former Thai Navy SEAL ... incredible true story."
Captain Phillips is a 2013 American biographical action-thriller film [4] [5] [6] directed by Paul Greengrass.Based on the 2009 Maersk Alabama hijacking, the film tells the story of Captain Richard Phillips, an American merchant mariner who was taken hostage by Somali pirates.
The film stars Gerard Butler and Gary Oldman with Michael Nyqvist (in one of his final film roles), Common, Linda Cardellini and Toby Stephens in supporting roles, and follows a submarine crew and a group of United States Navy SEALs who rescue the captured Russian President from a coup.
Act of Valor is a 2012 American action film produced and directed by Mouse McCoy and Scott Waugh and written by Kurt Johnstad. [2] The film stars active duty U.S. Navy SEALs and U.S. Navy Special Warfare Combatant-craft Crewmen, as well as Roselyn Sánchez, Jason Cottle, Alex Veadov, Nestor Serrano, and Emilio Rivera.