The battle also marked the first time a Navy SEAL was killed in combat in Iraq. "Warfare" will join a mixed slate of movies set amid the Iraq War, a slate with more misses than hits.

Former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza’s new A24 movie “Warfare" offers an authentic, real-time depiction of Iraq combat based on firsthand experience, challenging Hollywood’s portrayal of modern war.

Ray Mendoza is a former Navy SEAL and wrote and co-directed the new film, "Warfare." It tells the true story of a mission Mendoza participated in when he and his team were ambushed while ...

Filmmaker Alex Garland wanted to make a different kind of war film. Mendoza had a personal experience in mind, from November 2006, when he and a group of Navy SEALs were assigned to surveil a ...

Memory, of course, is imperfect under normal circumstances let alone combat situations from 20 years ago. Mendoza himself was disoriented after the I.E.D. blast and remembers things only in fragments.

The scarring in Navy SEAL Ryan Larkin's brain was not caused by large blasts from roadside bombs. Rather, he was wounded by repeated, low-level, blast pressure from his own weapons.