War film based on a harrowing true story streaming on Netflix now

Bradley Cooper’s 2014 biographical war drama American Sniper, directed by Clint Eastwood, is now streaming on Netflix. Cooper plays Chris Kyle, a U.S. Navy SEAL whose record across four Iraq tours, between 2003 and 2009, made him one of America’s most lethal snipers. The film is based on Kyle’s 2012 memoir and traces his path from a Texas ranch hand and rodeo cowboy to elite marksman. It also focuses on the personal cost of repeated deployments, as his relationship with his wife Taya, played by Sienna Miller, strains over time. After leaving the Navy in 2009, Kyle helped veterans, but was killed in 2013 at age 38.