The Browning M1919 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors:
Specifications
Weight: 31 lb (14 kg) (M1919A4)
Length: 37.94 in (964 mm) (M1919A4)
53 in (1346 mm) (M1919A6)
Barrel length: 24 in (609 mm)
Cartridge:
30-06 Springfield (U.S.)
7.62 x 51 mm NATO (U.S.)
303 British
8 mm Mauser
Action: Recoil-operated/short-recoil operation
Rate of fire: 400–600 round/min
Muzzle velocity: 2,800 ft/s (853.6 m/s)
Effective range: 1,500 yd (1,370 m) (maximum)
Feed system: 250-round belt
Browning M1919A2
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The M1919A2 is a lightweight machine gun intended for cavalry units. It has an 18" barrel with slotted shroud and a special tripod, though the M1917 or M2 tripods could also be used. The A2 was introduced in 1922 and was in service only for a short while.
Film
Browning M1919A4
Developed in the mid-1930s the M1919A4, was by far the most common variant and the first model of the M1919 designed for general use and featured the now standard 24" barrel (earlier variants were designed as tank and cavalry machine guns and had a shorter 18" barrel). Original M1919A4s featured a different heat shield with horizontal slots similar to those found on earlier models as opposed to the circular perforations found on the vast majority of M1919s. Early M1919A4s also featured a rotating notched bar on the right side of the receiver which was used to hold the bolt in the open position to prevent ammunition cook-offs in a hot barrel, a feature required by the Army at the time. This requirement, and hence the bolt latch, was dropped in 1943 (meaning that any M1919A4 lacking this latch in media set prior to 1943 is technically incorrect) although the bolt latch remained present on some weapons until the 50s.
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Film
Title
Actor
Character
Note
Date
Mata Hari
Ramon Novarro
Lt. Alexis Rosanoff
Mounted on airplane
1931
Guadalcanal Diary
1943
Gung Ho!
1943
Sahara
Dan Duryea
Jimmy Doyle
Mounted in tank
1943
Sahara
Commonwealth soldiers
Mounted on M2 tripod
1943
The Fighting Seabees
US Marine and Japanese soldiers
Mounted on M2 tripod and seen in fake Japanese tanks
1944
A Walk in the Sun
Richard Conte
Pvt. Rivera
1945
Victorious Return (Majup ar uzvaru)
German soldiers
1948
Sands of Iwo Jima
US Marines
Mounted on Amtracs
1949
The Story of G.I. Joe
US Army soldier
1945
The Story of G.I. Joe
US Army soldier
1945
Breakthrough
U.S. Soldiers
1950
Flying Leathernecks
US Marines
1951
Go for Broke!
Don Haggerty
SFC Culley
1951
Halls of Montezuma
US Marines
Man-portable, mounted on LVT-4/LVT(A)-4 Amtrac and M4 Sherman
1951
Operation Pacific
US submariners
With bolt latch
1951
Invasion USA
Jeep mounted
1952
Battle Circus
U.S. Army soldiers
Mounted on M2 tripod
1953
The War of the Worlds
U.S. Army soldiers
Tripod and jeep mounted
1953
From Here to Eternity
Burt Lancaster
1st Sergeant Milton Warden
1953
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms
US National Guards
Jeep mounted
1953
Godzilla
Japanese Defense Forces
1954
To Hell and Back
US Army soldiers
Mounted on M2 tripod
1955
Between Heaven and Hell
US National Guards
Tripod and jeep mounted
1956
Death in the Garden
Soldiers
1956
China Gate
Vietnamese communists
1957
When Hell Broke Loose
U.S. Army soldiers
1958
Pork Chop Hill
U.S. Army soldiers
1959
Pork Chop Hill
George Peppard
Cpl. Fedderson
1959
Gorgo
British troops
Mounted on Centurion tanks
1961
Merrill's Marauders
U.S. Army soldiers
1962
Hell Is for Heroes
US Army soldiers
Mounted on M2 tripod
1962
Lawrence of Arabia
Turks
1962
Escape from Zahrain
Zahrain soldiers
Mounted on half-track APC
1962
The Four Days of Naples
German troops
Top-mounted on M47 Patton tanks
1962
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Sterling Hayden
Gen. Jack D. Ripper
Carried in golf bag
1964
Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
US Army soldiers
1964
The Thin Red Line
US and Japanese soldiers
1964
Seven Days in May
US soldiers
Vehicle mounted, with bolt latch
1964
Thunderball
US Coast Guardsman
Bow-mounted on Coast Guard speedboat
1965
Help!
British soldiers
Mounted on Centurion tank
1965
Battle of the Bulge
Telly Savalas
Sgt. Guffy
1965
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold
Mike Henry
Tarzan
1966
Tarzan and the Valley of Gold
Vinero's soldiers
1966
Lost Command
French paratroops
1966
Judith
Syrian troops
Mounted on M4 Sherman tank
1966
Godzilla vs. the Sea Monster
Red Bamboo sentry tower mounted
1966
Cast a Giant Shadow
Egyptian Army & Haganah soldiers
1966
Let's Not Get Angry (Ne nous fâchons pas)
The Colonel's henchmen
1966
Is Paris Burning?
US Army and Free French Forces soldiers
1966
The Dirty Dozen
Stuart Cooper
Roscoe Lever
1967
The Dirty Dozen
Al Mancini
Tassos Bravos
1967
How I Won the War
On a Sherman tank mounted, in M24 Chaffee
1967
The Green Berets
US Army soldiers
1968
The Green Berets
ARVN soldiers
1968
Dark of the Sun
UN soldiers
1968
The Devil's Brigade
US Army soldiers
Mounted on M2 tripod
1968
The Bridge at Remagen
Mounted on US Army jeeps and halftracks
1969
Mr. Freedom
National guardsman
Mounted on jeep
1969
Castle Keep
Michael Conrad
Sgt. DeVaca
1969
The Bridge (Most)
German soldiers
Mounted on M3 Scout Car
1969
How I Unleashed World War II
French legionnaire
1970
Patton
US soldiers
Mounted on M2 tripod
1970
Kelly's Heroes
Don Rickles
SSgt. Crapgame
1970
Kelly's Heroes
Gavin MacLeod
Moriarty
Mounted on M4 Sherman tank
1970
Kelly's Heroes
US Army soldiers
Mounted in M4 Sherman tanks
1970
Kelly's Heroes
Mounted on US Army jeep
1970
The Last Grenade
Alex Cord
Kip Thompson
With spade grips
1970
She No Longer Talks She Shoots
French policemen
1972
R.A.S.
French troop
Mounted on jeep
1973
Savage Sisters
Philippine soldiers, guerrillas
Mounted on US Army jeep
1974
The Secret (Le secret)
French soldiers
1974
Hennessy
Mounted on British Ferret armored car
1975
Deathcheaters
Vietnam War stock footage
1976
The Muthers
Jeannie Bell
Kelly
1976
The Muthers
Rosanne Katon
Anggie
1976
The Muthers
Trina Parks
Marcie
1976
The Muthers
Rocco Montalban
Rocco
1976
The Muthers
Pirates
1976
Operation Thunderbolt
Israeli commando
1977
MacArthur
US Soldiers
1977
Drummer-Crab (Le Crabe-Tambour)
French sailors
Mounted on a river boat
1977
Fireback
Mounted on M3 tripod
1978
Go Tell the Spartans
South Vietnamese troops
1978
Power Play
Soldiers
Canadian C5
1978
The Deer Hunter
Mounted on US Army Jeep
1978
Good Guys Wear Black
The Black Tigers
1978
Cuba
Jack Weston
Larry Gutman
1979
Cuban Government troops
Mounted on M10 tank destroyer and jeeps
The Big Red One
German Army soldiers
Mounted on M4 Sherman, mocked up as Tiger tank
1980
Porky's
1981
The Professional
African soldiers
Jeep mounted
1981
Attack Force Z
Mel Gibson
Capt. Kelly
1982
A Captain's Honor (L'Honneur d'un capitaine)
French soldiers
Mounted on jeeps and trucks
1982
Deal of the Century
1983
Banzaï
African soldiers and rebels
The rebels - mounted on armory car
1983
Rookies Run Amok 2 (Le retour des bidasses en folie)
Mounted on M24 Chaffee
1983
The Inheritors (Die Erben)
Seen in neo-Nazi training camp
1983
Sheena: Queen of the Jungle
Dave Cooper
Anders
1984
Code Name: Wild Geese
General Khan's soldiers
On a pedestal mount
1984
Water
mounted on a jeep
1985
Death Wish 3
Charles Bronson
Paul Kersey
1985
Missing In Action 2: The Beginning
1985
Death Wish 3
Charles Bronson
Paul Kersey
1985
City Limits
Sunya Corp troops
1985
Coordinates of Death (Koordinaty smerti)
US soldiers
Jeep mounted
1985
Firewalker
San Miguel troops
1986
Order No. 027 (Myung ryoung-027 ho)
ROK Armed Forces soldiers
1986
Extreme Prejudice
In twin mount
1987
Extreme Prejudice
William Forsythe
Sgt. Buck Atwater
Duel mounted
1987
The Sicilian
Andreas Katsulas
Passatempa
On tripod
1987
The Sicilian
Italian soldiers
Mounted on jeep
1987
Curse of Snakes Valley (Klatwa doliny wezy)
A Vietnamese fighter
1987
A Better Tomorrow III
Tony Leung Ka Fai
Cheung Chi Mun
1989
Dead Bang
Frank Military
Bobby Burns
1989
Batman
Mounted on Batmobile, fitted with bolt latch
1989
Red Scorpion
Mounted on a Soviet Ratel IFV
1989
Return from the River Kwai
Imperial Japanese soldiers
Visually modified to resemble Japanese Type 92 heavy machine guns
1989
River of Death
Aryan Guards
1989
Navy SEALs
Dual mounted on a BTR-152
1990
Toy Soldiers
Columbian soldiers
Jeep mounted
1991
For Sacha (Pour Sacha)
Israeli soldiers
Jeep mounted
1991
Godzilla vs. King Ghidorah
American troops
Replica
1991
A Midnight Clear
Peter Berg
Bud Miller
1992
Freejack
With spade grips
1992
Diên Biên Phú
French soldiers
1992
Black Shark (Chyornaya akula)
mujahedeens
On tripod
1993
Reckless Kelly
Big Mac
Used in the Christian Cowboy films
1993
Falling Down
Cutaway model in surplus store
1993
Clear and Present Danger
Columbian military police
Mounted on jeeps
1994
Sahara
James Belushi
Master Sgt. Joe Gunn
1995
Sahara
Robert Wisdom
Sgt. Maj. Tambul
1995
The English Patient
Mounted on M4A2 Sherman tanks
1996
Saving Private Ryan
Max Martini
Cpl. Henderson
1998
Saving Private Ryan
Demetri Goritsas
Pvt. Parker
1998
Saving Private Ryan
US Army soldier
1998
Rushmore
In display case
1998
The Pentagon Wars
Early slotted barrel shroud, mounted in M3 Lee tank
1998
Bedazzled
Jeep mounted
2000
Joint Security Area
Korean War stock footage
2000
Kippur
Mounted on Israeli tank
2000
Deserter
French Foreign Legionnaires
Mounted on jeeps
2002
We Were Soldiers
French Army soldiers
Mounted on jeeps
2002
Half Past Dead
On M2 tripod
2002
Windtalkers
US Marines
Mounted on M2 tripods and jeeps
2002
Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines
Arnold Schwarzenegger
Terminator
With drum magazine, modified to be fired single-handedly from hip
2003
Saints and Soldiers
American soldiers
2003
The Rundown
2003
The Notebook
American soldiers
2004
Hotel Rwanda
Belgian soldiers
Jeep mounted
2004
King Kong
US Army soldier
Mounted on car
2005
The Great Raid
Filipino guerrillas
With bolt latch
2005
The President's Last Bang
Mounted on South Korean Army M48 tanks; seen in documentary footage
2005
Flags of our Fathers
US Marines
Mounted on M2 tripod
2006
Letters from Iwo Jima
US Marines
Mounted on M2 tripod
2006
Fido
US Army
During the "Zombie Wars" documentary shown by Zomcon
2006
Assembly (Ji jie hao)
Nationalist troops
2007
Doomsday
Adrian Lester
Sgt. Norton
In anti-aircraft mount
2008
The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor
Jessey Meng
Choi
Jeep mounted, fitted with bolt latch
2008
24: Redemption
Sangalan rebels
Mounted on a "technical"
2008
Crossfire (Les Insoumis)
Gangsters
In the warehouse of weapons, vehicle mounted
2008
The Bridge
US soldiers
Mounted on M4 Sherman
2008
Che Part One: Argentine
2008
Che Part Two: Guerrilla
Bolivian Army
2008
Death Race
Vehicle mounted
2008
X-Men Origins: Wolverine
US Army soldier
Mounted on LCVP
2009
Brother's War
US Army soldier
2009
Spoils of War
2009
Everyman's War
US Army soldiers
2009
Red and White (Merah Putih)
mounted on jeep
2009
Terminator Salvation
Truck mounted
2009
Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen
Vehicle mounted, mocked up as tri-barreled rotary guns
2009
71: Into the Fire
South Korean soldiers
w/ bipod, mounted on M2 tripod
2010
Outside the Law
French soldiers
mounted on jeep
2010
Tomorrow, When the War Began
Coalition forces
With early slotted barrel jacket
2010
The Expendables
Vilenan soldiers
2010
Fair Game
Nigerian soldiers
Jeep mounted
2010
The Front Line
South Korean Army
2011
Memorial Day
82nd Airborne Division machine gun crew
Mounted on M2 tripod
2011
Oba: The Last Samurai
US Marines
Mounted on M2 tripod
2011
Sucker Punch
Vanessa Hudgens
Blondie
in an aircraft
2011
The Green Hornet
Jay Chou
Kato
Car mounted
2011
My Way
Imperial Japanese Soldiers
mocked up as Type 92 heavy machine gun
2011
Captain America: The First Avenger
Derek Luke
Gabe Jones
With carry handle and sling
2011
Death Race 2
Vehicle mounted
2011
Red Tails
American troops
2012
Red Tails
mounted in Ju-87
2012
Saints and Soldiers: Airborne Creed
US soldiers
mounted on M3 Halftrack
2012
Fury
Logan Lerman
Norman Ellison
M3A1
2014
Hacksaw Ridge
Richard Pyros
Randall "Teach" Fuller
on M2 tripod and fired by the hip
2016
Hacksaw Ridge
US Army soldiers
on M2
2016
The Siege of Jadotville
mercenaries
2016
Television
Video Games
Title
Appears as
Mods
Notation
Date
Jurassic Park: Trespasser
"Browning M2"
With Browning M2 style barrel jacket
1998
Medal of Honor: Allied Assault
Mounted on jeep
2002
Medal of Honor: Frontline
Mounted on jeep
2002
Forgotten Hope
Mounted on M2 tripod, in bunkers and machine gun nests, on Willys MB Jeep, M4A1 Halftrack, M3 Stuart, M4A1(76) Sherman and Sherman II
2003
Hidden & Dangerous 2
2003
Medal of Honor: Rising Sun
Mounted on M3 Stuart Ligh Tank
2003
Call of Duty: United Offensive
Vehicle mounted
2004
Medal of Honor: Pacific Assault
2004
Vietcong 2
Fitted with bolt latch
2005
Call of Duty 2
2005
Day of Defeat: Source
Fitted with carry handle and bipod
2005
Brothers in Arms: Road to Hill 30
2005
Brothers in Arms: Earned in Blood
2005
Call of Duty 3
Mounted on M2 tripods and M4 Sherman tanks
2006
Company of Heroes
Mounted on jeeps and M4 Sherman tanks
2006
Darkest Hour: Europe '44-'45
With deployable bipod
Mounted on LCVP (Landing Craft, Vehicle, Personnel), M3A1 Haltrack, M8 Greyhound, M5A1 Stuart, Sherman Mk II and M4 Sherman
2006
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune
Mounted
2007
Call of Duty: World at War
Vehicle-mounted and man-portable with M1919A6 bipod
2008
Bioshock 2
as part of an auto-turret
fires .50 Cal rounds
2010
Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Incorrectly used by Japanese forces
2010
7554
2011
Uncharted: Golden Abyss
with spade grips and gun shield
2011
Dead Island
With spade grips
2011
Project Reality: Normandy
Mounted on M4 Sherman & M26 Pershing
2013
Company of Heroes 2
2013
World of Guns: Gun Disassembly
Browning M1919
Mounted on M2 tripod
2014
Rainbow Six Siege
Unusable; seen on background
2015
Heroes & Generals
infantry and vehicle mounted versions
2016
Call of Duty: WWII
2017
Post Scriptum
Tripod and vehicle mounted
2018
Enlisted
Vehicle mounted
2021
Anime
Animation
Title
Voice Actor
Characters
Notation
Date
The Iron Giant
US Army soldier
Mounted on Jeep
1999
Archer
Mounted in grill of the Dodge Challenger Special Agent Edition
2009 - ????
What If...? - Season 1
Josh Keaton
Steve Rogers/HYDRA Stomper
as "Tesseract Gun"; "What If... Captain Carter Were The First Avenger?" (S1E01)
2021
Browning M1919A5/M1919A4E1
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When the M3A1 Stuart tank was being designed in the early 1940s, it was found that a standard M1919 could not be fitted due to there not being enough clearance in the turret to allow the bolt to be operated. Therefore, the weapons were modified with a downward curving bar affixed to the right side of the receiver to allow the bolt to be retracted from the rear of the weapon. These weapons were later given the M1919A5 classification to simplify the supply of replacement parts, and could be found with either horizontal or vertical buffer tubes depending on whether the gun was built from a flexible or fixed M1919A4. After the requirement for the M37 (a variant fitted to armored vehicles that could be converted to feed from either side) was put forward in 1950, it was decided that a variant similar to the M1919A5 would be uses in the interim. The M1919A4E1 was converted from existing stock piles of M1919A4s and was very similar to the M1919A5 except it had a straight bolt retracting bar (the downward curving bar of the M1919A5 was only necessary in the interior of the now obsolete Stuart tanks).
Film
Video Games
Anime
Title
Characters
Notation
Date
Excel Saga
Terrorists
M1919A5, tripod mounted
1999
Browning M1919A6
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The M1919A6, introduced in late 1943, was an attempt to create a light machine gun capable of being carried and operated by one man, comparable to German machine guns like the MG42 . The M1919A6 featured a shoulder stock, bipod, carry handle, conical muzzle booster (on later models) and a lighter, changable barrel. The barrel weight on the M1919A4 was already marginal in terms of heat dissipation, and lightening the barrel in the M1919A6 made for a weapon that was prone to overheating and was large, heavy and awkward compared to the majority of contemporary machine guns. The original M1919A6 lacked a muzzle booster due to the need to have an exposed hex on the muzzle to allow the barrel to be changed. This led to problems cycling the action so a removable muzzle booster was added to increase the chamber pressure. At the end of WWII, a conical flash hider was introduced as part of the muzzle booster, but contrary to the majority of depictions in media, this was never actually issued before the end of the war (although it was extensively used in Korea).
Film
Television
Video Games
Anime
Browning AN/M2
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The AN/M2 (not to be confused with the aircraft version of the larger Browning M2 , which was also called AN/M2: in full they were respectively the "Browning Machine Gun, Cal. .30, AN/M2, Aircraft" and "Browning Machine Gun, Cal. .50, AN/M2, Aircraft") was an aircraft variant of the M1919A4 which had a lighter receiver and thinner barrel (being overall about 1/3 lighter than the ground version), higher rate of fire and the ability to be fed from either side of the gun. The flexible mount variant of the AN/M2 is also the only production variant of the M1919 that was fitted with spade grips. A variant of the AN/M2 chambered in .303 was used by the British RAF where it was known as the Browning .303 Mk II, and the Colt commercial version was called the MG40.
Film
Anime
Title
Characters
Notation
Date
Najica Blitz Tactics
"Mission: 005 - The Fragile Dream with a Crimson Colored Horizon"
2001
Strike Witches
Browning .303 Mk IIs mounted in Hurricane fighters
2008
Strike Witches 2
Browning .303 Mk IIs mounted in Lancaster bomber
2010
Brave Witches
Browning .303 Mk IIs mounted in Seafire fighters
2016-2017
Video Games
Title
Appears as
Mods
Notation
Date
Heroes & Generals
Mounted in Curtiss O-52 Owl (fixed and flexible mount)
2016
Sniper Elite 4
Mounted in Avro Lancaster bomber (Browning .303 Mk II)
2017
Battlefield V
Mounted in Spitfire fighters (Browning .303 Mk II)
2018
Animation
Title
Voice Actor
Characters
Notation
Date
What If...? - Season 1
mounted on Spitfires; "What If... Captain Carter Were The First Avenger?" (S1E01)
2021
Stinger Machine Gun
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Error creating thumbnail: File missing Stinger machine gun replica built by the Canadian Historical Arms Museum - .30-06 Springfield. This replica was built for the Canadian TV show The Weapon Hunter , and is currently stored at the Canadian Historical Arms Museum. The replica contains an ahistorical rear sight mounting bracket as the museum did not wish to permanently modify the Browning AN/M2 their replica was built on.
During WWII, Para Marine Sergeant Mel J Grevich and Private First Class John Lyttle of the Fifth Marine Division produced a handheld AN/M2 variant fitted with a simple trigger hooked up to the firing solenoid, a 100-round belt box, a BAR bipod and an M1 Garand stock. This weapon, referred to as the "Stinger," was used in the invasion of Iwo Jima, with one of the six Stinger gunners present during the operation, Corporal Tony Stein, receiving the Congressional Medal of Honor. Only six were made and none survived the war, but the story of this cobbled-together weapon is still used to remind US Marine recruits that their most powerful weapon is their mind.
Video Games
See Also