Not-so-special operations Navy SEALs with an M14 rifle, left, and an AN/PAQ-1 laser target designator, right, during an amphibious demonstration in 1988. National Museum of US Navy ...

Unlike Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, who both played Navy SEALs, the movie "Actor of Valor" features real-life SEALs. The film opens this weekend, and Kenneth Turan has our review.

"Act of Valor" is a movie about (sort-of) real Navy SEAL adventures, starring real Navy SEALs as themselves. They aren't, however, named in the credits, for reasons of personal safety.

Act of Valor has an unusual backstory. The film, directed by Mike “Mouse” McCoy and Scott Waugh, started out as a training video for Navy SEALS. The Navy liked what they saw so much that they ...

Unlike Demi Moore and Bruce Willis, who both played Navy SEALs, the movie "Actor of Valor" features real-life SEALs. The film opens this weekend, and Kenneth Turan has our review.

Not-so-special operations Navy SEALs with an M14 rifle, left, and an AN/PAQ-1 laser target designator, right, during an amphibious demonstration in 1988. National Museum of US Navy On the whole, ...

Not-so-special operations Navy SEALs with an M14 rifle, left, and an AN/PAQ-1 laser target designator, right, during an amphibious demonstration in 1988. National Museum of US Navy ...

The film stars real Navy SEALs, who during a rescue mission stumble upon a serious plan for terrorist attacks on American soil.

Julian Barnes on Lunch Break discusses his conversation with one of the real-life Navy SEALs who stars in the coming movie "Act of Valor." ...

But when the 1990 film Navy Seals, starring Charlie Sheen, attempted to put their secrets on screen, the Navy was far less obliging.