The recent death of Kevyn Major Howard, the actor who portrayed Rafterman in Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 Vietnam War film “Full Metal Jacket,” has rekindled memories of the real Marine who ...

Vietnam War movies are often harrowing and uncomfortably realistic, as seen in films like Hamburger Hill, Platoon, and Full Metal Jacket. advertisement. Collider.

“Full Metal Jacket” (1987) Stanley Kubrick should be more often thought of as the supreme anti-war moviemaker. His devastating World War I film “Paths of Glory” and the subversive satire ...

7. Full Metal Jacket (1987) Stanley Kubrick should be more often thought of as the supreme anti-war moviemaker. Split between the harrowing boot-camp tyranny of R. Lee Ermey’s drill instructor ...

At its core, Full Metal Jacket is an exploration of the breakdown of the human psyche under the immense pressure of war. Based on Hasford’s 1979 novel The Short-Timers, the film takes audiences ...

And in Stanley Kubrick’s “Full Metal Jacket” (1987), the war was nothing more than a charnel house. Ever since, American films have largely eschewed the tidy morality and view of combat that ...

The 1980s saw a wave of Hollywood films about Vietnam, including First Blood, Hamburger Hill, Good Morning Vietnam, Casualties of War and Born on the Fourth of July.Foremost among them is the ...

To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the end of the war in Vietnam, a selection of artifacts - like this group of items - that were placed at the Vietnam Traveling Memorial Wall in 1990 is ...