American Sniper (2014)
Directed by Clint Eastwood
A Texas cowboy becomes a Navy SEAL sniper and serves four tours in Iraq, shuttling between the war and his young family in San Diego and later Texas.
- Travel shown
- On foot, bike, skis or swimming
- Not shown on screen
- Fictional place
- 1Childhood and rodeo years≈ 00:03:00TexasInferred
Chris learns to hunt with his father and later drifts through rodeo work.
- 2SEAL training≈ 00:10:00Coronado, CaliforniaInferred
Chris endures SEAL training.
- 3Bar and wedding≈ 00:16:00San Diego, CaliforniaStated on screen
Chris meets Taya in a bar and they marry just as he is deployed.
- 4First tour≈ 00:01:00Fallujah, IraqInferred
On overwatch Chris makes his first kills and starts hunting a feared enemy sniper.
- 5Home between tours≈ 00:50:00San Diego, CaliforniaInferred
Chris comes home for his son's birth but cannot settle.
- 6Fourth tour rooftop≈ 01:30:00Sadr City, BaghdadInferred
- 7Life after the war≈ 01:52:00TexasInferred
The journey in numbers
- Distance travelled
- 52,460 km
- Places
- 5
- Countries
- 2
- Stops
- 7
- Plane: 49,082 km
- Not shown: 3,377 km
Distances are measured in a straight line between stops, so real road distances are longer.
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