Anthony "Swoff" Swofford, a Camus-reading kid from Sacramento, enlists in the Marines in the late 1980s. He malingers during boot camp, but makes it through as a sniper, paired with the usually ...

Smoke plumes billow from the distance, a dusky silhouette sinks into the ablaze, molten gold horizon. Opaque, viscous crude ...

The first film is based on U.S. Marine Anthony Swofford's 2003 memoir of the same name. It was followed by direct-to-video sequels.

Corporal Evan Albright (Charlie Weber) joined the elite Marine Corps Security Guards to save the world and see some action-not necessarily in that order. But his first assignment, protecting a U.