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Nominated for three Academy Awards, winning one for Best Sound Beach Red: Cornel Wilde: Rip Torn: Depicts a landing by the Marine Corps on an unnamed Japanese-held Pacific island, based on Peter Bowman's 1945 novella of the same name, 1967 Features stock footage taken during the Pacific War Sniper: Luis Llosa: Tom Berenger, Billy Zane
The Marine 2; The Marine 3: Homefront; The Marine 4: Moving Target; The Marine 5: Battleground; The Marine 6: Close Quarters; Marine Raiders (film) A Marine Story; The Marine; Marines (film) The Marines Are Coming; The Marines Are Here; The Marines Come Thru; The Marines Fly High; Marines in the Making; Marines, Let's Go; Megan Leavey (film ...
The Pacific is a 2010 American war drama miniseries produced by HBO, Playtone, and DreamWorks that premiered in the United States on March 14, 2010.. The series is a companion piece to the 2001 miniseries Band of Brothers and focuses on the United States Marine Corps's actions in the Pacific Theater of Operations within the wider Pacific War.
The movie is based on the recollections of U.S. Marine Lt. Col Michael Strobl, a real person, who accompanied the remains of Lance Corporal Chance Phelps, a Marine fatally wounded by gunfire near Baghdad during the Iraq War, from Dover Air Force Base to Dubois, Wyoming in April 2004. He attended both Phelps's funeral and his memorial service ...
In 1983, Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant Thomas "Tom" Highway finagles a transfer back to his old unit, 2nd Reconnaissance Battalion, Second Marine Division.En route, he meets fellow passenger Corporal "Stitch" Jones, who borrows money from Highway for a meal at a rest stop and then steals his bus ticket, leaving him stranded.
Flags of Our Fathers is a 2006 American war drama film directed, co-produced, and scored by Clint Eastwood and written by William Broyles Jr. and Paul Haggis.It is based on the 2000 book of the same name written by James Bradley and Ron Powers about the 1945 Battle of Iwo Jima, the five Marines and one Navy corpsman who were involved in raising the flag on Iwo Jima, and the after effects of ...
2016 was a busy year for the US Marine Corps. The service kept pretty active in training and in combat: Marine pilots have been, and continue to hammer ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria, while ...
Pride of the Marines is a 1945 American biographical war film starring John Garfield and Eleanor Parker.It tells the story of U.S. Marine Al Schmid in World War II, his heroic stand against a Japanese attack during the Battle of Guadalcanal, in which he was blinded by a grenade, and his subsequent rehabilitation.