Anthony Swofford's memoir of his time as a Marine in the first Iraq war, Jarhead, has been adapted to the screen. The film starring Jake Gyllenhaall, Peter Sarsgaard and Jamie Foxx, opens Friday in ...

The new film Jarhead tells the story of a marine sniper in the first Gulf War, who never fires a shot. Jacki Lyden talks with director Sam Mendes about why he chose to make the movie, which is based ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... In his best-selling memoir, “Jarhead: A Marine’s Chronicle of the Gulf War and Other Battles,” Anthony Swofford writes a beautifully astute passage about his ...

“Welcome to the Suck.” That was the tagline of Anthony Swofford’s best-selling Gulf War memoir, Jarhead, but it also neatly summed up my opinion of the book. I bought the audio version after two ...

Directed by Sam Mendes. Starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Peter Sarsgaard, Lucas Black, Chris Cooper and Jamie Foxx. Running time 122 minutes. Classified R (for pervasive language, some violent images and ...

Training is followed by the real thing: Swofford is sent to Saudi Arabia with his scout/sniper colleagues. The mission: Guard the oil fields from a possible attack by Saddam Hussein. Codename: ...

A series of war films where the title comes from the slang term used to refer to United States Marines. The first film is based on U.S. Marine Anthony Swofford's 2003 memoir of the same name. It was ...

"Jarhead" is a kind of lightweight variation on Stanley Kubrick's "Full Metal Jacket," with its evocation of the institution known as the United States Marine Corps, its love of the profane poetry of ...

The gripping tale of Marine Scout Sniper Anthony Swofford's experiences in Operation Desert Storm is brought to life in the 2005 biographical war drama Jarhead. Sam Mendes took the helm for Jarhead, a ...