Full Metal Jacket is a 1987 Vietnam war film that is notable for the performance of R. Lee Ermey as the Drill Sgt. Hartman, who whips a group of army boot camp recruits into shape before they are deployed to Vietnam to see combat. The film was one of the final of famed director Stanley Kubrick, who also directed other famous films such as Spartacus and 2001: A Space Odyssey.