Find out how and where to watch "Jarhead" online on Netflix, Prime Video, and Disney+ today - including 4K and free options.. Jarhead (the self-imposed moniker of the Marines) follows Swoff (Gyllenhaal) from a sobering stint in boot camp to active duty, where he sports a sniper rifle through Middle East deserts that provide no cover from the heat or Iraqi soldiers.
Watch Jarhead on HBO Max. Plans start at Sam Mendes (American Beauty) directs Jake Gyllenhaal and Jamie Foxx in this unconventional war drama that explores the mindset of a group of U.S. Marines struggling with boredom and isolation during their deployment in the Persian Gulf War.. In the late 1980s, Anthony Swofford enlists as a Marine, training in boot camp and eventually deploying to Iraq during the Gulf War. Swoff and his fellow Marines sustain themselves with sardonic humanity and wicked comedy on blazing desert fields in a country they don't understand against an enemy they can't see for a cause they don't fully grasp.