Who directed Stanley Kubrick’s 1987 war film Full Metal Jacket?

Stanley Kubrick directed the 1987 war film Full Metal Jacket.

Kubrick also produced and co-wrote the screenplay, adapting Gustav Hasford’s 1979 novel The Short-Timers. The film is divided into two contrasting sections: Marine Corps recruit training and the Vietnam War, showing how military institutions shape and strain the individual.

Matthew Modine plays Private Joker, while Vincent D’Onofrio portrays the troubled recruit Leonard. R. Lee Ermey, a former U.S. Marine staff sergeant, played Gunnery Sergeant Hartman and contributed extensively to the role’s dialogue.

The film was shot largely in England, with abandoned industrial locations standing in for Vietnam. It is often grouped with Platoon and Apocalypse Now, but Kubrick’s approach is notably structured around institutional conditioning and psychological alienation.