Best Movies Like American Sniper
Here is our list of Movies like American Sniper that we are sure you will enjoy. Chris Kyle (Bradley Cooper) was nothing more than a Texas man who dreamed of becoming a cowboy, but in his forties he realized that maybe his life needed something different, something that would allow him to express his true talent, something that would lead America in its fight against terrorism. In order to become a sniper, he joined the S.E.A.L.s. Upon marriage to Taya (Sienna Miller), Kyle and the other members of the team are called to Iraq for the first time.
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12 Strong
Year: 2018
Director: Nicolai Fuglsig
A true story about the Army’s Special Forces “Green Berets,” responding to the 9/11 attacks within weeks. With the help of the 160th SOAR(A), the Green Berets took control of the country and allowed the rest of the conventional military to begin the more publicly visible battle.
The Wall
Year: 2017
Director: Douglas Eric Liman
A sniper assigned to the U.S. Army’s 4th Infantry Division, Staff Sergeant Shane Matthews, is sent to inspect a pipeline construction site in the desert of Iraq with his spotter, Sergeant Allen Isaac. It takes the pair 22 hours on over-watch before the site is determined to be clear. During Matthews’ investigation of the site, he is shot by an Iraqi sniper. Isaac tries to save Matthews, but he is also wounded in the right knee, his radio is damaged, and his water bottle is smashed.
13 Hours
Year: 2016
Director: Michael Bay
2012, Libya A group of ex-military contractors provide security at a CIA-run unofficial facility in Benghazi. There is a power vacuum in the aftermath of Gaddafi’s downfall causing a volatile climate. The military is easily accessible. US Ambassador to Libya Chris Stevens visits the area and stays in a compound near the CIA base. On the night of 11 September, 2012, hordes of heavily armed locals attack the Ambassador’s compound. Six CIA contractors are the only ones willing and able to defend it.
Shooter
Year: 2007
Director: Antoine Fuqua
Bob Lee Swagger, one of the world’s best marksmen, is a loner living in the Rocky Mountains. His father received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Marine Corps. In the midst of leaving the military after being hung out to dry in a secret Ethiopian mission a few years ago, he is hired by a colonel to find a way that the President of the United States might be assassinated in one of three cities within the next two weeks.
Snitch
Year: 2013
Director: Ric Roman Waugh
Founder of a construction company John Matthews finds out he has been arrested for drug trafficking along with his estranged son, Jason. Jason is facing an unjust prison sentence for a first time offender due to mandatory minimum sentence laws; he cannot be lenient in good conscience. In exchange for the release of his son, John tries desperately to convince the DEA and the opportunistic DA Joanne Keeghan to let him go undercover to help make arrests of sufficient magnitude to free his son.
The Best Movies Like American Sniper
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