16 military movies that used real-life veterans in active roles

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Still from Flags of our Fathers (Image via Warner Bros. Entertainment)
Still from Flags of our Fathers (Image via Warner Bros. Entertainment)

12.⁠ ⁠Heartbreak Ridge (1986)

Still from the movie (Image via Rotten Tomatoes)
Still from the movie (Image via Rotten Tomatoes)

Directed by and starring Clint Eastwood, this war movie focuses on a US Marine who is nearing retirement but gets one last job of readying a platoon of unruly Marines, for the upcoming war on Grenada, which took place in 1983. Eastwood plays Gunnery Sergeant Thomas Highway and for his role, he took the help of then Gunnery Sergeant James Dever, who was the military consultant for the film.

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