The best R. Lee Ermey’s war movies

R. Lee Ermey

R. Lee Ermey

24/03/1944- 15/04/2018
Today we present the best R. Lee Ermey’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best R. Lee Ermey’s movies.
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Apocalypse Now

Apocalypse Now
8.4/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 15/08/1979
  • Character: Eagle Thrust Seven Helicopter Pilot (uncredited)
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

Full Metal Jacket

Full Metal Jacket
8.3/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 26/06/1987
  • Character: Gny. Sgt. Hartman
A pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the U.S.-Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody street fighting in Hue.

Taking Sides

Taking Sides
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaMusicWar
  • Release: 01/01/2001
  • Character: General Wallace
One of the most spectacular and renowned conductors of the 1930s, Wilhelm Furtwangler's reputation rivaled that of Toscanini's. After the war, he was investigated as part of the Allies' de-Nazification programme. In the bombed-out Berlin of the immediate post-war period, the Allies slowly bring law and order to bear on an occupied Germany. An American major is given the Furtwangler file, and is told to find everything he can and to prosecute the man ruthlessly. Tough and hard-nosed, Major Steve Arnold sets out to investigate a world of which he knows nothing.

Purple Hearts

Purple Hearts
5.7/10
A Navy surgeon and a nurse fall in love while serving in Vietnam during the war. Their affection for one another provides a striking contrast to the violence of warfare.

The Siege of Firebase Gloria

The Siege of Firebase Gloria
6.8/10
  • Genre: ActionWar
  • Release: 27/01/1989
  • Character: Sgt. Maj. Bill Hafner / Narrator
A Marine patrol stops at Firebase Gloria at the start of the Tet Offensive during the Vietnam war. With the firebase attacked, the patrol remains to help defend it. The Marines barely hold off the VC (Viet Cong), but in the end, hold the base.

The Boys in Company C

The Boys in Company C
6.9/10
  • Genre: War
  • Release: 02/02/1978
  • Character: Sergeant Loyce
Disheartened by futile combat, appalled by the corruption of their South Vietnamese ally, and constantly endangered by the incompetence of their own company commander, the young men find a possible way out of the war. They are told that if they purposely lose a soccer game against a South Vietnamese team, they can spend the rest of their tour playing exhibition games behind the lines.

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