Making the film “Warfare” was an exercise in exposure therapy for the veterans whose memories it reconstructs.

NPR's Scott Simon speaks to Ray Mendoza about the film, "Warfare," which he wrote and directed with Alex Garland. The film is based on Mendoza's experiences as a US Navy SEAL fighting in Iraq.

Ray Mendoza, co-writer and co-director of "Warfare" with Alex Garland, presents as a serious-minded, if cordial conversationalist. The veteran, who served over 16 years as a Member of SEAL Team 5 ...

A24's harrowing war drama Warfare is based on the real memories of former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza, whose path from the streets of Iraq to the director's chair for a major Hollywood movie has been ...

Alex Garland and Ray Mendoza's film — a real-time recreation of a 2006 battle — had several key factors they wouldn’t compromise on, from the age of the actors to adding Hollywood ...

Soon, the idea consumed him. He was watching military advisor Ray Mendoza during a scene when our intrepid band of journalists finally infiltrate the White House. Garland had already been impresse ...

The take was too perfect. Ray Mendoza, the first-time director of Warfare, was watching D’Pharoah Woon-A-Tai drag the limp, unconscious body of Cosmo Jarvis away from the wreckage of a massive ...

Spoiler alert! We're discussing major plot details about the new movie "Warfare." Ray Mendoza knew he needed to make “Warfare.” The pulse-pounding Iraq War drama (in theaters Friday ...

When Alex Garland first worked with Ray Mendoza, he was immediately struck by the latter’s precision and intuitive storytelling instincts. At the time, the pair were collaborating on Civil War ...

Before he co-directed A24’s newest film “Warfare,” set for a major box office release, Navy SEAL veteran Ray Mendoza spent years as a little-known figure working various stunt and advising ...

Over the next 18 years, writer and director Ray Mendoza — who was one of the SEALs there that day — collected the overlapping and sometimes diverging memories of the men who were there and ...

Mendoza tells IndieWire how he and co-director ... in the three-“element” mission as part of Task Unit Ramadi, the Ray we watch is an ad hoc guide to the action. His radio calls and requests ...