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  2. List of films featuring the United States Marine Corps

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    This film follows five Marines from boot camp to a tour of duty in the Vietnam War in 1968. Disheartened by futile combat, corruption, and incompetence, the five seek a way out. They are told that if they can defeat a rival soccer team, they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind the lines. 1978 Brothers: Jim Sheridan

  3. The Boys in Company C - Wikipedia

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    The five young men go through Marine Corps boot camp together. The training is dehumanizing and brutal, designed to make them think and act as a unified team. Sergeant Loyce and Staff Sergeant Aquilla use a combination of extreme training, brute force, and their own combat experience to teach the recruits.

  4. Tribes (film) - Wikipedia

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    Tribes, also known as The Soldier Who Declared Peace (UK), is a 1970 American television drama film broadcast as an ABC Movie of the Week directed by Joseph Sargent.A big ratings success when it first aired November 10, 1970 (which happened to be the Marine Corps' 195th birthday), Tribes was later released theatrically in Britain and Europe under the title The Soldier Who Declared Peace.

  5. Full Metal Jacket - Wikipedia

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    During the boot camp sequence of the film, Modine and the other recruits underwent Marine Corps training, during which Ermey yelled at them for 10 hours a day while filming the Parris Island scenes. To ensure that the actors' reactions to Ermey's lines were as authentic and fresh as possible, Ermey and the recruits did not rehearse together.

  6. ‘Carry-On’ star Taron Egerton unpacks the Netflix movie’s ...

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    "It's like a '90s action-thriller," Taron Egerton said on TODAY. "I read the script, and I just thought, 'That's a movie I want to see.' The buy-in is immediate. Guy gets an earwig on the busiest ...

  7. Major Payne - Wikipedia

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    Major Benson Winifred Payne, a battle-hardened Force Recon Marine and Vietnam veteran, returns from a successful drug raid in South America to find out that he has been passed over for promotion to Lieutenant Colonel. Payne receives an honorable discharge and tries to adjust to civilian life but ends up being arrested. His former commander gets ...

  8. Moral Injury: The Recruits - The ... - The Huffington Post

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    The recruits came at a trot down the Boulevard de France at the storied Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, S.C., shouting cadence from their precise parade ranks. Parents gathered on the sidewalks pressed forward, brandishing cameras and flags, yelling the names of the sons and daughters they hadn’t seen in three months.

  9. Review: In 'I Used to Be Funny,' rising indie star Rachel ...

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    This is the situation into which we are dropped at the outset of director Ally Pankiw’s “I Used to Be Funny,” a story of trauma, catharsis and stand-up comedy.