Director Clint Eastwood’s American Sniper, stars Bradley Cooper as Chris Kyle, the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history.
Despite the danger, as well as the toll on his family at home, U.S. Navy SEAL Chris serves through four harrowing tours of duty in Iraq, personifying the spirit of the SEAL creed to:
“Leave no one behind.”
But upon returning to his wife, Taya Renae Kyle (Sienna Miller), and kids, Chris finds that it is the war he can’t leave behind. Watch the trailer above.
The film did big business at the box office and was nominated for several Academy Awards.
American Sniper also has some critics who called it a propaganda film.
See Cooper describe what it was like to portray the American war hero: