Where was 'Full Metal Jacket' filmed? Shooting locations of Stanley Kubrick's masterpiece

Full Metal Jacket is one of masterpieces by Stanley Kubrick. 1987 war film was directed, co-written, and produced by Stanley Kubrick. It featured Matw Modine, R. Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Ofrio and Adam Baldwin. plot of film revolved around a platoon of US Marines and Vietnam War. Full Metal Jacket movie enjoys a massive fan base all over world. A lot of people are still curious about Full Metal Jacket filming locations. For all people who are wondering about where was Full Metal Jacket filmed, here is everything you need to kw about it.

Where was Full Metal Jacket filmed?

According to movielocations.com, Full Metal Jacket was filmed in England. first half of training sequence on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina was shot at PEA Bassingbourn Barracks, Bassingbourn. It is located rth of Royston on A505 between Cambridge and Letchworth in Cambridgeshire.

barracks on site of former RAF Bassingbourn airfield were established in 1970. Bassingbourn was originally an RAF station which later became a bomber airfield of Eighth Air Force, of United States Army Air Forces during WWII. B17 Flying Fortress kwn as 'Memphis Belle', flew on bombing raids in 1942-1943 from Bassingbourn.

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Full Metal Jacket filming locations

report also mentioned that bombed-out city of Hue in Vietnam from Full Metal Jacket was filmed at vast abandoned gasworks at Beckton. It is located at rth bank of Thames just to rast of current London City Airport. industrial site was transformed to Far East by designer Anton Furst. He is kwn for designing Gotham City in 1989’s Batman. It was also planted with palm trees.

area has been mostly redeveloped w. popular industrial site was also used in or movies like Steven Spielberg’s Empire Of Sun and 1981 Bond movie For Your Eyes Only among ors.

In Full Metal Jacket, Delta helicopter scenes took place above rfolk Broads and t Mekong River. rfolk Broads is a network of rivers and lakes which extend into county of Suffolk. It is locally kwn as Broads and is a popular boating spot for tourists.

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Full Metal Jacket shooting locations

Im Credits and Promo Im Credits: A still from Full Metal Jacket movie trailer