Full Metal Jacket 1987 Stanley Kubrick's return to filmmaking after a seven-year hiatus, this film chronicles the Vietnam War experience by focusing on a group of Marine volunteers. Based on Gustav Hasford's novel The Short Timers, the first half of the film centers around volunteers' drilling instructor Sgt. It's about the heartbreaking trainings led by Hartman. The second part describes the events in Vietnam through the eyes of completely destroyed sailors. The 1987 US movie Full Metal Jacket was directed by master director Stanley Kubrick. War and drama genre Full Metal Jacket movie has 7 awards.