Video: 'Full Metal Jacket' trailer

(Wednesday, June 17, 1987) — Full Metal Jacket, a British-American war film about a pragmatic U.S. Marine who observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits, premiered today at the Cannes Film Festival.

Directed by Stanley Kubrick, the film starred Matthew Modine, Adam Baldwin, Vincent D’Onofrio, Lee Ermey, Dorian Harewood, Arliss Howard, Kevyn Major Howard and Ed O’Ross.