FN FAL

Also called the FN LAR (Light Automatic Rifle), a name ascribed to the FN FAL in Europe. The fact that there are so many variants, made by different countries and different names for the same models, causes a lot of confusion regarding what particular FAL is in what movie. For the most part, only the major variants of the gun will have been seen in movies with wide distribution, (the original Belgium version, U.S. versions, the Israeli Versions and British/Commonwealth Version).

Specifications

Type: Battle Rifle

Caliber: 7.62x51mm NATO

Capacity: 20, 30-round box magazine. (20 Standard)

Fire Modes: Safe/Semi-Auto/Full-Auto; Semi-Auto only on Inch pattern FALs.

The FN FAL and variants are used by the following actors in the following movies:

FN LAR

Original FN LAR Light Automatic Rifle - full auto rifle - 7.62x51mm

Original FN LAR Light Automatic Rifle - full auto rifle with Wooden buttstock - 7.62x51mm. Many of these rifles were issued with wooden buttstocks by FN Belgium and are seen in wars all over the world in this configuration.

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Wild Geese	Richard Burton	Col. Allen Faulkner		1978
The Wild Geese		Mercenaries		1978
The Kingdom		Saudi police officers		2007
Munich		IDF soldiers		2005
Varg Veum, begravde hunder(buried dogs)		Gangster		2008

Television

• Unit, The

Video Games

• Modern Warfare 2 (with rail system and 30-round magazine)

FN FAL

FN FAL 50.00 7.62x51mm NATO

FN FAL 50.61 Paratrooper with 21" barrel - 7.62x51mm NATO

FN FAL 50.63 Paratrooper with 18" barrel - 7.62x51mm NATO

Film

• Holnist soldiers in The Postman (1997)

• District 9 (2009)

• Blessed by Fire (2005)

• Bad Boys II (2003)

• A Man Apart (2003)

• Derrick O'Connor as Thomas Aquinas in End of Days (1999) (Short Barreled Carbine)

• The Replacement Killers (1998)

• Money Talks (1997)

• United States Police Force guards in Escape from LA. (1996) (fitted with M203 grenade launchers)

• Tom Sizemore as Michael Cheritto in Heat (1995) (50.61 Paratrooper Folder)

• Ernie Hudson as Captain Munro Kelly in Congo (1995) (50.61 Paratrooper Folder)

• Used by Argentine soldiers in An Ungentlemanly Act (1992)

• Mocked up as an AO-63 assault rifle in Red Scorpion (1989)

• The South African Police Force in Cry Freedom (1987)

• Missing In Action 2: The Beginning (1985)

• Romancing the Stone (1984)

• Cuban and Nicaraguan soldiers in Red Dawn (1984)

• Scarface (1983) (50.00 Full sized Battle Rifle)

• Nicaraguan soldiers and rebels in Under Fire (50.50 and 50.63 variants)

• Game for Vultures (1979)

• Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite)

• The Gods Must Be Crazy

Television

• Route 9 (1998)

• Argentine soldiers in Tumbledown (1988)

• Angel in Green {1987)

• Situation Critical

Video Games

• Operation Flashpoint

• Rainbow Six 3: Raven Shield

• Code of Honor 2: Conspiracy Island

• Far Cry 2 (as "FAL Paratrooper" despite not being a Paratrooper model, with a 30-round magazine)

• Timesplitters: Future Perfect (as "Soviet Rifle", with curved Kalashnikov style magazine and stock removed)

• Operation 7

• Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots

• "Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker

• Jagged Alliance 2

Anime

• Golgo 13

• Flag

• Spriggan

FN FALO

FALO, 7.62x51mm NATO

L2A1, 7.62x51mm NATO

Films

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
An Ungentlemanly Act		Argentinian Naval Commandos	With & without AN/PVS-2 Starlight scope	1992

IMI Romat

Israeli FAL "Romat" with Wooden Furniture 7.62x51mm NATO

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Beast of War		Afghan Mujahideen		1988
Red Scorpion	Dolph Lundgren	Nikolai Rachenko	With M203 grenade launcher	1989
Red Scorpion	Al White	Kallunda Kintash	With M203 grenade launcher	1989
Munich	Eric Bana	Avner Kaufman	With scope	2005
Munich	Daniel Craig	Steve	With scope	2005

Television

• Ultimate Force

L1A1

British Inch Pattern L1A1 SLR (Self Loading Rifle) chambered in 7.62x51mm NATO - Variation of the FN FAL rifle. British & New Zealand SLR's were later fitted with black fibreglass furniture as seen here.

Canadian version of the L1A1, Inch Pattern with Wood Stocks. Some Canadian SLR handguards have no vent holes.That is not a C1A1, the breech block has sand cuts which the Canadian rifles do not have, the rear sight is not the unique Canadian disk sight, the carry handle is black plastic, not brown and the top cover does not have a clip feed guide like a C1A1

Australian L1A1 with rounded vent hole handguards

Film

• Soldiers of the Trinidad and Tobago Regiment in The Bank Job (2008)

• Used by Royal Marines, and the Falkland Islands Defence Force in An Ungentlemanly Act (1992) (Also seen in archival footage in the hands of British soldiers)

• Simon Pegg as Sgt. Nicolas Angel in Hot Fuzz (2007)

• Steve Zhan in Sahara (2005)

• Reign of Fire (2002)

• Bloody Sunday (2002)

• Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me (1999)

• Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery (1997)

• Colombian mercenaries in Clear and Present Danger (1994)

• British soldiers in Blown Away (1994)

• British Soldiers in In the Name of the Father (1993)

• SAS operatives in The Fourth Protocol (1987)

• British Soldiers in Threads (1984)

• Gus Mercurio as Red and Bill Young as Griff in Turkey Shoot (1982) (With scope, extended magazine, and sawn-off barrel)

• British Police Tactical Response Unit in An American Werewolf in London (1981)

• Australian SAS troopers in The Odd Angry Shot (1979)

• The Wild Geese (1978)

• Power Play (1978)

• No Blade Of Grass (1970)

• A guard in Dr. No (1962)

• A Cameroon border guard in Tears of the Sun
• seen in the hidden armory in Commando

Television

• NSW Police State Protection Group officers in Police Rescue (1991)

• NSW Police State Protection Group officers in Water Rats (1996 to 2001)

• British soldiers in Tumbledown (1988)

• British soldiers in Miami Vice - Season 3 (stock footage)

• Corrupt policeman Kevin Hales in Ashes to Ashes Series 2 Episode 1 (2009)

Video Games

• Let's Go Jungle!: Lost on the Island of Spice‎

• Operation 7

• Vietcong 2

• Global Operations

• Insurgency

1A1 SLR

Films

• LOC Kargil

• Lakshya

• Rang De Basanti

IMBEL MD-2

Imbel MD-2, 5.56x45mm.

Imbel MD-3, 5.56x45mm.

Movies

• Elite Squad (Tropa de Elite)
• Elite Squad 2 (Tropa de Elite 2)

Television

• Shadow Soldiers

Video Games

• Boiling Point: Road to Hell (IMBEL MD-3)

IMBEL MD-97

Imbel MD 97, 5.56x45mm.

Video Games

• Sniper: Ghost Warrior

DSA SA58 OSW

DSArms SA58 OSW Carbine 7.62x51mm

DSArms SA58 OSW Carbine with Aimpoint sight - 7.62x51mm

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Note	Date
The Town	Ben Affleck	Doug MacRay	With two magazines taped "jungle-style"	2010
Terminator Salvation	Terry Crews	Captain Jericho	With Surefire Universal weaponlight	2009
Terminator Salvation		Resistance fighter		2009
Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia	Yancey Arias	Alvaro Cardona	With M68 Aimpoint red dot sight	2009
Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia		Rogue unit member	With M68 Aimpoint red dot scope	2009
Rambo	Reynaldo A. Gallegos	Diaz	With M68 Aimpoint red dot scope	2008
Hancock		Criminal		2008
Bad Boys II	Kiko Ellsworth	"Blondie Dreads"		2003
Bad Boys II		US Marine		2003
Hollywood Homicide		Drive-by shooter		2003
The Hunted		Black ops commando	With M68 Aimpoint red dot scope	2003

Video Games

• Operation 7: It's one of the preset FAL configurations, and its individual parts are also available for customized FAL-based weapons.

• Rainbow Six: Lockdown has one with a Surefire M900 light on it