Marine Corps Entertainment & Media

03/06/2026

👉 Tag a creator heading to SXSW 👈
MARINES on Netflix. Mission: Impossible with Tom Cruise. Pat McAfee live from Parris Island on ESPN.

All of these projects came through our office.

Our team is the bridge between Hollywood, the creator economy, and the United States Marine Corps. We connect storytellers with our people, our installations, and our stories at zero cost to the taxpayer.

This year SXSW turns 40, and the Marines will be in the room. The timing couldn't be better. Austin will be electric next week: Steven Spielberg, Serena Williams, Demi Moore, and Andy Cohen are keynoting. Boots Riley is premiering a new film. SXSW is running all three conferences simultaneously for the first time ever, with a new pop-up village format across downtown.

We're hosting a mixer and we want to meet you.

📍 The Powder Room — 301 W 5th St, Austin, TX
🗓️ Monday, March 16th | 6:00 PM
🍸 Drinks available for purchase

If you're a filmmaker, content creator, journalist, or storyteller who's curious about what the Marine Corps can bring to your next project, this is your invite. We have ongoing work across documentaries, series, feature films, and music, and we're always looking for the next great collaboration.

The best stories about the Marine Corps haven't been told yet. Maybe yours is one of them.

RSVP: https://luma.com/n405nvbu

Tag a filmmaker, YouTuber, veteran friend, or fellow SXSW attendee who should join us. Can’t wait to meet you.

10/19/2022

Please join us on 22 October, from 6 pm (movie starts at 6:30 pm) until 10 pm as we screen Mending the Line at the AMC La Jolla in UTC San Diego, 8657 Villa La Jolla Dr #129, La Jolla, CA 92037.

Brian Cox and Sinqua Walls star in this movie about a Marine who is injured in Afghanistan. Arriving at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the young Marine (Walls) meets a Vietnam veteran (Cox) who teaches him to fly fish with the hopes of helping this young veteran deal with emotional and physical trauma.

Movie screening will also include a panel discussion talking about resilience, su***de awareness, and behind the scenes filming.

Following the movie and the panel discussion, the Mending the Line Production Team will be hosting a reception at the same location.

Please use the Access Code: 2022MendingTheLine100 for your free ticket.

Director(s): Joshua Caldwell Producer(s): Kelly McKendry, Carl Effenson, Scott MacLeod, Stephen Camelio, Joshua Caldwell Screenwriter(s): Stephen Camelio Starring: Brian Cox (Succession, Troy); Sinqua Walls (American Soul, Resort to Love); Perry Mattfeld (In the Dark, Shameless); Patricia Heaton (Ev...

10/17/2022

Our Marine Corps training and operations can put some wear on tear on our bodies, but there are mobility, strengthening, and stretching exercises we can all benefit from.

Knees Over Toes is here with some simple suggestions.

Thank you to the Marines for devoting your lives to keeping us safe. I’m honored to have been invited to help. 🫡Yours in Solutions,Ben

10/14/2022

Recently our office was fortunate to host Christian Bale at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton to screen his new major motion picture Amsterdam. Bale and other actors portray World War I veterans in this movie, now playing in theaters.

It is a tale that weaves historical fact with fiction for a timely cinematic experience. “Most people are surprised to find out that these things really did happen,” stated the Director David O. Russell.

Thanks to Master Sergeant Wayne Edmiston for leading a great discussion on stage as well.



Amsterdam Movie Walt Disney Studios

10/05/2022

On this day in 1914, the first aerial combat victory occurred during World War I. French pilot Sgt. Joseph Frantz and his mechanic/gunner, Louis Quénault, shot down a German biplane near Reims to record what is considered the first official aerial combat victory.

The key difference in this encounter was the 8-millimeter Hotchkiss machine gun fixed to the front of the French Voison biplane. Mounted guns would soon be standard equipment for WWI combat aircraft, but when the head of Frantz’s V 24 escadrille had requested them for his squadron, he was at first ridiculed for his “Jules Verne” idea.

The Hotchkiss proved its worth when Frantz got into a chase with a two-man German Aviatik biplane during a morning bombing mission near the village of Jonchery-sur-Vesle, not far from the trenches. Frantz recalled later that he saw the passenger in the enemy airplane ahead of him take out a rifle as Quénault fired a few dozen rounds, finally hitting the Aviatik’s fuel tank. The Germans went down, trailing smoke, and crashed in a swamp.

Today, the F-35 is leading the way in aerial combat, and has already demonstrated its lethality in 2021 when an Israeli F-35 shot down two Iranian UAVs. The F-35 has been featured in movies such as: Man of Steel, The Avengers, Green Lantern, and the fourth Die Hard movie.

10/01/2022

The month of October is National Cyber Security Month, and we are thankful to have Marines like those from I Marine Expeditionary Force’s DCO-Internal Defensive Measures who emerged victorious from the Deputy Commandant for Information, Marine Corps “Capture the Flag” Cyber Games 2022.

These games were the first to force teams to focus on defensive cyber skills rather than offensive cyber skills. Here, teams earned points by capturing cyber flags, in a simulated contested environment, which ranged in difficulty from Apprentice, Journeyman and Master. For Cpl. Ian Bergman, a cyberspace warfare operator with I MEF’s DCO-IDM winning team, the uniqueness of this year’s event challenged him and his fellow Marines to try new methods of analyzing data to reach a common goal.

Bridging the gap between talent management and problem solving in a simulated environment was a new challenge for the Marines to overcome. “You have to use talent management to know where to start; who’s good at what and being able to look at questions from every different angle,” stated Staff Sgt. Keith Wolf, the team leader for DCO-IDM.

Cybersecurity and cyberpsychology have been highlighted in multiple movies including: Hackers (1995), the documentary Zero Day (2016), and the blended fiction/documentary The Social Dilemma.

09/28/2022

Paddy Pimblett, aka Paddy the Baddy, is a world-renowned Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter with 19 wins and 3 losses in 22 matches on his professional fighting record. He has been a professional fighter since 2012 and is the former Cage Warriors Featherweight Champion.

He recently visited the Marines and those involved in MCMAP at Camp Pendleton. Pimblett was put through the gamut with combat conditioning training and then battles the Marines on the mat.

Thanks to We Are The Mighty and Joel Searls.

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Paddy Pimblett, aka Paddy the Baddy, is a world-renowned Ultimate Fighting Championship fighter with 19 wins and 3 losses in 22 matches on his

09/26/2022

Excited for the world premiere of Mending the Line at the Woodstock Film Festival, 28 September – 02 October 2022.

Brian Cox and Sinqua Walls star in this amazing film about a Marine who is injured in Afghanistan. Arriving at a Veterans Affairs Medical Center, the young Marine (Walls) meets a Vietnam veteran (Cox) who teaches him to fly fish with the hopes of helping this young veteran deal with emotional and physical trauma.



Woodstock Film Festival Mending the Line

09/25/2022

Today is National Gold Star Mother and Family Day, intended to recognize and honor those mothers who have lost a son or daughter in the service of the U.S. Armed Forces.

Each year there are events and meetings to publicly express love, sorrow and reverence toward Gold Star Mothers and their families. Flags are also mandated to be displayed on government buildings on this day.

Many movies and documentaries have chronicled the loss of a loved one including: Taking Chance, We Were Soldiers, Saving Private Ryan, and To What Remains.



Project Recover

09/22/2022

These fitness influencers cannot get enough of taking on the Marines and challenging them in a Combat Fitness Test showdown. Brandon William, Magnus Mitdbo and Adam Soaf go to Camp Pendleton to see how they stack against the Corps.

Thanks to We Are The Mighty and Joel Searls

These fitness influencers cannot get enough of taking on the Marines and challenging them in a Combat Fitness Test showdown. Brandon William, Magnus

09/21/2022

Today, Escape from Kabul airs on HBOMax.

A story told from the perspective of U.S. Marines, Afghan citizens, and the Taliban, this film engages you with accurate first-person discussions of the crisis that took place in Hamid Karzai International Airport (HKIA), Kabul, Afghanistan in August 2021.



HBO Max

09/18/2022

Happy 75th Birthday US Air Force!

The U.S. War Department created the first antecedent of the U.S. Air Force as a part of the U.S. Army, on 1 August 1907, which through a succession of changes of organization, titles, and missions advanced toward eventual independence 40 years later. In practice, the U.S. Army Air Forces (USAAF) was virtually independent of the Army during World War II, and in virtually every way functioned as an independent service branch, but airmen still pressed for formal independence. The National Security Act of 1947 was signed on 26 July 1947 by President Harry S. Truman, which established the Department of the Air Force, but it was not until 18 September 1947, when the first secretary of the Air Force, W. Stuart Symington, was sworn into office that the Air Force was officially formed as an independent service branch.

Multiple movies have through fictional and historical accounts have highlighted our Air Force including: Twelve O’Clock High, The Tuskegee Airmen, Bat 21, Memphis Belle: A Story of a Flying Fortress (1944, documentary), Memphis Belle (1990, historical fiction), Thud Pilots, The Last Full Measure, and of course the four Iron Eagle movies, never ever forget the Iron Eagle franchise.



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