Which film is about a woman in Navy SEALS training?

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"G.I. Jane" is the film about a woman who enters an elite Navy SEAL-style training program. Released in 1997, Ridley Scott's action drama stars Demi Moore as Lieutenant Jordan O'Neil, a fictional Navy intelligence officer chosen as a test case for integrating women into special operations training.

O'Neil is sent to a punishing program led by Master Chief John Urgayle, played by Viggo Mortensen. The training includes exhausting physical exercises, obstacle courses, water-based drills, and psychological pressure. Military leaders expect her to quit, but she continues despite discrimination and deliberate attempts to make her fail.

The film is often described as a Navy SEAL training story, but its program is fictionalized and is not a literal account of a woman becoming an operational Navy SEAL. The title plays on the expression "G.I. Joe," using "Jane" to emphasize the film's gender-integration theme. Anne Bancroft co-stars as Senator Lillian DeHaven, the politician who sponsors O'Neil's selection.

Source: Wikipedia · fact-checked Aug. 2026

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