Where is Private Dulaney (2022): S01E02

Introduction Where is Private Dulaney explores the 1979 murder of a North Carolina Marine and the sordid world of drugs and violence that may have been underlying the crime. Outline As Carol’s search continues, an 11-year-old boy makes a gruesome discovery in the woods: a hand sticking up from a shallow grave; Carol fears the… Read More

Where is Private Dulaney Documentary Series Overview (2022)

Introduction Where is Private Dulaney explores the 1979 murder of a North Carolina Marine and the sordid world of drugs and violence that may have been underlying the crime. Outline A three-part docuseries about the 1979 disappearance of Marine private Leroy Dulaney from Camp Lejune in North Carolina, and his mother Carol’s determination to find… Read More

Bravo! Common Men, Uncommon Valour (2011)

Introduction Twenty weeks before Khe Sanh, these men were boys, sitting in their mother’s kitchens. Then they went to war. Outline Fourteen Marines and one Corpsman relive their journey from enlistment through the epic 77-day Siege of Khe Sanh during the Vietnam War. Just boys in 1968, they recount their ferocious experience in that wet… Read More

‘Gung Ho!’: The Story of Carlson’s Makin Island Raiders (1943)

Introduction Gung Ho! (full title: Gung Ho!: The Story of Carlson’s Makin Island Raiders) is a 1943 American war film directed by Ray Enright and starring Randolph Scott. The story is based somewhat on the real-life World War II Makin Island raid led by Lieutenant Colonel Evans Carlson’s 2nd Marine Raider Battalion. Outline A tough… Read More

The Greatest Beer Run Ever (2022)

Introduction The Greatest Beer Run Ever is a 2022 American biographical action comedy film co-written and directed by Peter Farrelly based on the book of the same name by Joanna Molloy and John “Chickie” Donohue. The film stars Zac Efron, Russell Crowe and Bill Murray. Outline In 1967, John Donohue was a 26-year-old US Marine… Read More

The Princess and the Marine (2001)

Introduction The Princess and the Marine is a 2001 American made-for-television romantic drama film based on the true story of American Marine Jason Johnson and Bahraini Princess Meriam Al-Khalifa, with stars Mark-Paul Gosselaar and Marisol Nichols in the roles of Jason and Meriam. Outline Meriam Al Khalifa (Marisol Nichols) is a Bahraini royal who is… Read More

Devil Dogs: Hero Marines of WWI (2017)

Introduction Devil Dogs is a 2017 documentary about the US Marine Corps in World War I. Also know as The Devil Dogs (original title, US and UK). Outline Belleau Wood, France, June 1918. After three weeks of battle, US Marines stopped the German advance a few miles from Paris. They fought with such ferocity, the… Read More