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Lone Survivor | Based on a True Story (2015x24)

Air date: Sep 27, 2015

The movie Lone Survivor has been hailed for it's historical accuracy in the press, but the reality is very different from what the movie depicts. ------------------------------------------------------------ more videos: previous: https://youtu.be/vxgXERmYlz8 related: https://youtu.be/lgca_vzyDd8 ------------------------------------------------------------ references: Luttrell, Marcus. Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of Seal Team 10. New York: Little Brown and Company, 2007. https://amzn.to/2mWiIKL http://www.historyvshollywood.com/reelfaces/lone-survivor.php http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2014/01/10/lone_survivor_accuracy_fact_vs_fiction_in_the_mark_wahlberg_and_peter_berg.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lone_Survivor_(film)#Historical_accuracy Luttrell interview: http://www.blackfive.net/main/2012/06/review-interview-marcus-luttrells-service-a-navy-seal-at-war.html ------------------------------------------------------------ SUBSCRIBE FOR MORE VIDEOS: http://www.youtube.com/subscription_center?add_user=CynicalCypher88 LET'S CONNECT: https://www.facebook.com/cynicalcypher88 https://twitter.com/Cynical_History ------------------------------------------------------------ wiki: Lone Survivor is a 2013 American biographical war thriller film based on the 2007 non-fiction book of the same name by Marcus Luttrell with Patrick Robinson. Written and directed by Peter Berg, the film stars Mark Wahlberg, Taylor Kitsch, Emile Hirsch, Ben Foster, and Eric Bana. Set during the war in Afghanistan, Lone Survivor dramatizes the unsuccessful United States Navy SEALs counter-insurgent mission Operation Red Wings, during which a four-man SEAL reconnaissance and surveillance team was tasked to track down and kill Taliban leader Ahmad Shah. Berg first learned of the book Lone Survivor in 2007, while he was filming Hancock (2008). He arranged several meetings with Luttrell to discuss adapting t