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A group of American soldiers stationed in Iraq at the end of the Gulf War find a map they believe will take them to a huge cache of stolen Kuwaiti gold hidden near their base, and they embark on a secret mission that's destined to change everything. From TMDB

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  • David Roberts @volts.wtfBluesky · Aug 20, 2025

    Just watched the classic 1999 movie Three Kings, directed by David O. Russel, with Clooney, Wahlberg, & Ice Cube. What a crazy time capsule! Lots of remarkable stuff in it, but one thing the 21yo & I noticed this time is that *Alia Shawkat is in it, playing a ~9yo Iraqi refugee girl*!

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  • flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 21, 2026

    For younger people: this phenomenon is not a new thing. America urging people to rise up against dictators then doing fuck all about them getting rubbed out is the central plot in the nineties movie Three Kings, for example. In popular culture, not just in textbooks.

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  • Monica At The Movies @monicasmovies.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 6, 2025

    Three Kings (1999) Directed by David O. Russell

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  • mtsw @mtsw.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 9, 2024

    no, Mogadishu. THREE KINGS is the best Gulf 1 movie

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  • Rachel Chatrooms @crabitha.slutmo.deBluesky · Dec 16, 2024

    Three Kings was the only Iraq movie that needs to exist, and even that's pushing it.

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  • El Gato Astronomico @astrocat.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 1, 2026

    In the film THREE KINGS, mark wahlburgs character is captured at one point and is interrogated by a minor character who is mostly framed as despicable. But he becomes dangerously sympathetic when he says ‘imagine bombs falling on your house. Your family.’ There’s a quick flash of Mark in his /

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  • Brandon D. Wilson @geniusbastard.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 5, 2025

    I know we have bigger fish to fry but I’d love it if a lot of people of note in the film business just took turns dunking on Tarantino. Like from now to Three Kings Day.

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  • Kelvira 🎃 @ohhellkell.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 25, 2025

    Ruin a movie by putting Mark Wahlberg in it! I'll start: Three Kings Patriots Day The Perfect Storm All the Money in the World The Other Guys Boogie Nights Lone Survivor The Fighter Deepwater Horizon The Italian Job Planet of the Apes We Own the Night The Gambler Play Dirty The Corruptor Etc...

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  • Joe Adalian @tvmojoe.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 2, 2025

    Oh, wow. I remember after this came out, it seemed like every few months I was writing about a piece of TV development with the words "project is from John Ridley ("Three Kings")." Also, TIL reading the Wiki for these film: One of the producers was sitcom producing icon Paul Junger Witt...

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  • Dice Company @dicecompany.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 1, 2024

    ALARM! The mighty @richaargh.bsky.social is only starting in a D&D-adjacent fantasy zombie film: We Three Kings. And the trailer is out now! Everyone at Dice Company Towers is excited. youtu.be/FLcCTfr6Ag8

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  • Dolphin Pilot @theamitie.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 10, 2026

    I just spent 30 minutes trying to find the clip from the movie Three Kings where spike jonze is recounting how mark wahlberg shot a guy in the war and the guy’s head popped off like a cartoon and blood spurted out of his neck. Not related to anything in the zeitgeist today of course

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  • Cub Green @cubtrader.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 12, 2026

    I love Simon & Duran Duran. Also reminds me of a heartbreaking line at end of George Clooney “Three Kings” film. One of the Iraqi men walking with him says “I just wanted to own a barbershop.” That’s stuck with me for decades. We all just want a normal life, yet a few evil men rule everything. 😢

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  • Shannon Appelcline @shannonappelcline.bsky.socialBluesky · May 19, 2026

    JD Vance once caught a Democrat watching the movie Three Kings. Checkmate, liberals!

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  • Matt Baldwin @thisbrokenwheel.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 20, 2026

    The entirety of the Gulf War movie THREE KINGS was shot in California and Arizona. There isn't a single shot of the actual Middle East anywhere in that film!

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  • Kevin Fox @michigrim.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 8, 2025

    A thing I appreciate about Three Kings is that the original grade of the film was trying to emulate the colors and look of photography out of the gulf war more than motion picture film

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  • Rue - I Have Guns in my House (for murder) 🇵🇸 🇻🇪 @rueshine.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 11, 2025

    Three Kings but honestly no film matched his time as Doug Ross on ER.

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  • Erik E Erik @erikeerik.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 14, 2024

    My favorite movie of this year has changed several times as I get older: it has been, at times: (Early 20s) Fight Club (Late 20s) Three Kings (Early 30s) Being John Malkovich (Late 30s) The Insider Early 40s— I’m a former weirdo and want to hear a tale about visiting my brother The Straight Story

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  • Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.comBluesky · Nov 27, 2025

    I'm not criticizing Three Kings which I think is a good movie. I'm shitting on David O'Russell.

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  • Kevin Fox @michigrim.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 9, 2025

    So I recently guested on @bangbang1492.bsky.social with @vanjackson.bsky.social and @lylerubin.bsky.social To talk about the 1999 David O. Russel film Three Kings. I had a real blast on this one.

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  • 2strong2silence.bsky.social @2strong2silence.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 2, 2026

    Uh what if he was never alive to me? No really he's a shitty actor that I cannot name one good film he was in. Yes I am including Three Kings which was overrated as hell

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  • Victoria aka Blaze @burrddoh.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 22, 2026

    #JuneMovieChallenge #FilmSky 22: A military movie but not a war movie Three Kings - 1999

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  • Adam L. @tsalmoth.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 18, 2025

    Warning: If the protest you're attending features George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, and Ice Cube, it's not a No Kings protest; it's a Three Kings protest. You're in the wrong place. And probably a movie theatre.

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  • 🎃 damned316 @dxmnkd316.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 19, 2025

    Three Kings is excellent. We had to watch that and write a couple papers on it in my film studies course.

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  • Sarah Manvel @cairdiul.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 15, 2025

    A good dad movie is THREE KINGS, mainly for the single line of dialogue when Saïd Taghmaoui tells Mark Wahlberg "I'm not a father no more"

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  • Silk Rhode Books @silkrhodebooks.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 14, 2025

    Talking about screenplays: Part 21 of 28. Getting my desert movies sorted out. Fine, so Three Kings is a different movie than Sahara, I guess. And I checked; they did spell Clive #Cussler wrong, lol. #booksky

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  • thethinblackduke.bsky.social @thethinblackduke.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 20, 2024

    Yes. If A-list actors are making serious money, there's no reason why they shouldn't be more adventurous in the movies they make in the future. Batman and Robin is a terrible movie, but it allowed Clooney to do oddball films like The Men Who Stare At Goats, Three Kings and Up In The Air.

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  • Mx. Tiffany Leigh @tiffanyleigh.northsky.socialBluesky · Sep 30, 2023

    My Letterboxd Last Four Friday. Starting up with the spooky stuff a bit early! #letterboxd #lastfourfriday El Conde (2023) Three Kings (1999) Over the Garden Wall (2014) No One Will Save You (2023)

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  • Sammy Hain @sammyhain.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 4, 2026

    My Three Kings Day movie recommendation

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  • Melissa Jo @melissajd.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2025

    What's the best movie about each war? (not my favorite genre, but I'll play) #FilmSky 📽️ WWI: Legends of the Fall WWII: The Thin Red Line Vietnam: The Deer Hunter Desert Storm: Three Kings Wild Card: Jarhead

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  • Mattie Lee 🎶 @mattielee.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 7, 2025

    Movie Alphabet Challenge Day 20 Three Kings (1999) #MovieSky

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  • Val 🏳️‍⚧️ @valondar.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 9, 2025

    Even say Three Kings, a film praised by consultant Jack Shaheen as an unusually pro-Arab film in Hollywood terms, embeds this in the text.

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  • Sammy Hain @sammyhain.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 4, 2025

    Watched a 1987 movie called Three Kings, starring a super young Lou Diamond Phillips. Best thing about the movie was shots from an 80s mall. Aaron Spelling should not be allowed religious parables

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  • Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.comBluesky · Jun 3, 2024

    There's a lot of good cinema and I get to pick and choose how I consume it even when it leads to hypocritical decisions like rewatching Three Kings a film that stars both Mark Wahlberg and is directed by David O. Russell (who allegedly is awful) but deciding not to engage with their current work.

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  • Crows Hate ICE Too @mefcorv.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 27, 2026

    Can’t believe perfect war film Three Kings isn’t on here.

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  • Swimfans @swimfanspod.comBluesky · Jun 27, 2025

    This week, we’re joined by big brother Joel Hocking to discuss the modern war picture, the finer points of C-4, and if the great anti-war movie of the modern era yet exists in 1999’s THREE KINGS! linktr.ee/swimfans patreon.com/swimfans

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  • MWhite @pjmatt.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 14, 2025

    also, the vaguest echo of "Three Kings," a movie whose blend of total subversion yet deep affection of military awesomeness is much needed.

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  • David Dixon @dixondaver.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 2, 2025

    Incorrect. The best Iraq War movie is THREE KINGS, which is, of course, about a different Iraq War and was thus confusingly made before the War it is the best movie about. Meanwhile the worst Iraq War movie is THE 300, which I loathe with a hatred so deep it could hide a Balrog.

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  • Larry Schumacher @lwschu.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 2, 2025

    Like Three Kings, which is also an excellent Persian Gulf War movie.

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  • Rob @rflixtv.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 25, 2025

    I enjoyed this, a good mix of genres. My ★★★★ review of Three Kings on Letterboxd boxd.it/9w4Hl5 #filmsky

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  • Joe @esteguey.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 23, 2025

    When I was 16, I saw: Fight Club The Matrix Office Space Election The Blair Witch Project The 6th Sense Being John Malkovich The Phantom Menace American Beauty The Virgin Suicides Three Kings Magnolia All in theaters. Truly THE best movie year ever. #booksky #booktok #reading #tbr #nowreading

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  • Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 11, 2025

    Three Kings remains a genuine fuckin masterpiece, it is hands down the best movie around the US invasion of Iraq. If you were teaching film studies you could spend 6 months on how it's show not tell

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  • Moondoggie (Rick) @moondogrick.bsky.socialBluesky · Aug 8, 2026

    So what's up with this? Cage as Madden? 🤔 David O. Russell has done some terrific films. Silver Linings Playbook, The Fighter, American Hustle and Three Kings were great. #filmsky 📽️ #tvsky 📺 www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVlo...

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  • Lizzylizumab @lizzylizumab.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 5, 2026

    Reminds me of Three Kings 🤩 (I was just watching this on Pluto.)

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  • Allan "Pealed Grapes" Mott @houseofglib.bsky.socialBluesky · Jun 5, 2026

    You know what movie I think has the goods for a fun remake? KELLY'S HEROES*. Give it the OCEAN'S ELEVEN treatment with an all star cast, play up the heist angle a bit more, and I think you have a real crowd pleaser. *THREE KINGS doesn't count

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  • Local Observer 🇮🇶🇵🇸🍉 @observer46664.bsky.socialBluesky · Mar 7, 2026

    Three Kings was such a good film!

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  • Matt Ortega @mattortega.comBluesky · Mar 4, 2026

    It's a subplot to the movie, "Three Kings," which was probably my introduction to it as a teenager.

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  • Sean Ehrlich @seandehrlich.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 21, 2026

    Unfortunately, the war movie we’re probably actually in is The Men Who State at Goats. Or Three Kings.

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  • Chris Elena @chriselena.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 27, 2026

    I'd say THREE KINGS as well but I can't in good faith ask anyone to pay money to see a David O'Russell film.

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  • MarioKartographer @mariokartographer.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 21, 2026

    And what a great film Three Kings is. Although my sister walked out of the cinema when that cow stepped on an antipersonnel mine, while the rest of us were laughing like psychos.

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  • Renard Ars Purson @renardfoxdemon.bsky.socialBluesky · Jan 7, 2026

    There's a very heartwarming 80s Christmas TV movie called "The Three Kings." At a mental hospital in southern California, a Nativity pageant is held. Three patients portray the Magi in full clothes and real camels. They believe they are the Magi and escape to L.A. in search of the newborn Christ.

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  • ACE, Dwags @aceindc51.bsky.socialBluesky · Nov 17, 2025

    You seen the movie Three Kings? That was based on our escapades.

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  • Neal @nealholt.bsky.socialBluesky · Oct 5, 2025

    I love this sooo much. Relatable problems are important! Not just saving the galaxy. It's like the bit in the movie Three Kings where they are trying to rescue their friend from Saddam Hussein's soldiers and one of them has to pause cuz he gets a splinter.

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  • Holy Priceless Collection @etruscansnood.bsky.socialBluesky · Sep 24, 2025

    1. Lawrence of Arabia 2. Saving Private Ryan 3. Platoon 4. Three Kings 5. Avengers: Infinity War, by far the best movie ever made about the Infinity War.

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  • Stephen Wild @stephenjwild.bsky.socialBluesky · Jul 21, 2025

    You’ve inherited a movie theater, what’s your first double feature? Three Kings (1999) and Kelly's Heroes (1970)

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  • Turbulence Jones @lukehancock.bsky.socialBluesky · May 22, 2025

    I adore Three Kings but when I ❤️ Huckabee's came out, despite the glowing reviews, I hated it and could tell he was a dick; something that's been proven time and again since that movie. Still love Three Kings though.

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  • Christopher Bird @mightygodking.comBluesky · Apr 27, 2025

    52.) THREE KINGS (1999) - I honestly think this is one of the best movie trailers that has ever been cut, communicating the goals of a complex multifaceted action/drama/comedy near-perfectly

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  • Casey @simiadei.bsky.socialBluesky · Apr 11, 2025

    THREE KINGS directed by noted creep david o russell. i’m sorry but it’s an amazing movie

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  • Anthony B, @swearyanthony.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 11, 2025

    I'm absolutely never able to learn from Garland whether he deliberately chose as make Civil War to be a savage indictment of journalism and realtime edgy documentary film making of the Three Kings style.

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  • the_dude @lebowski76.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 20, 2024

    They should have a Three Kings style movie where Ukraine soldiers find a secret Russian stash of gold…

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  • Bernice @bfonge.bsky.socialBluesky · Dec 3, 2024

    @sleepykittypaw.bsky.social I know you are watching these sparingly, but the Bebe Winans Lifetime movie Three Kings is a solid one that I think you'd like.

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