If you're looking to make a movie about the Afghanistan War, it should be obvious that you're not going to be filming in Afghanistan itself. We're coming up on the 19th anniversary of the war's ...

With the War in Afghanistan scheduled to end for the United States before Sept. 11, 2021, the conflict will have lasted almost 20 years. And yet, so far fewer than a dozen American movies have ...

New Year’s Day 2008 marked the most memorable day of my deployment in Afghanistan. I replay the events over and over, like an old VHS tape running in my head. But unlike the movies that shaped ...

It’s been just over 18 months since the evacuation of Kabul heralded the end of the United States’ 20-year war in Afghanistan. That time has been marked by remembrance — from some of the ...

The movie stars real-life father and son Mike and Carlos Boettcher, who were embedded with U.S. troops for two years.

Although the war in Afghanistan now stands as the longest in US history, it has rarely been top of mind in public awareness. The US military entered Afghanistan in 2001 in the wake of 9/11, to ...

Retired Col. Eric Terashima rates scenes portraying the Afghanistan War in movies. During his 30 years of service, Terashima had 12 deployments, including eight combat tours, ...

U.S. troops in Afghanistan are getting a morale boost from Hollywood. Steven Spielberg, Tom Hanks and USO showman Johnny Grant, the honorary mayor of Hollywood, are sending videotapes of this year ...

Hollywood movies are sometimes born out of pure imagination, while others are true stories about real people. There have been many war movies made over the years based on actual events. A lot of ...

During the War in Afghanistan, Master Sgt. John Kinley (Road House‘s Jake Gyllenhaal) relies on a local interpreter, Ahmed (Dar Salim), to translate for his unit.After an ambush leaves the team ...

“Hollywoodgate” unspools with the slow burn of a thriller, with no interviews, little voice-over and, at first, not much action. The film opens we watch Nash’at tail his main subjects: Air ...