Jarhead is currently streaming on Netflix

Jarhead (2005)122 minDrama, WarRating 69/100

In the late 1980s, Anthony Swofford enlists as a Marine, training in boot camp and eventually deploying to Iraq during the Gulf War. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand against an enemy they can't see for a cause they don't fully grasp.

Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Jamie Foxx, Peter Sarsgaard, Scott MacDonald, Chris Cooper, Laz Alonso, Lucas Black

Director: Sam Mendes