AK-47

The AK-47 and variants are used by the following actors in the following movies, television series, anime, and video games:

NOTE: Please keep in mind that while "AK-47" is often a catch-all term for 7.62x39mm Kalashnikov rifles, most so-called "AK-47s" in movies are actually derivatives of the AKM, which features a stamped receiver and many improvements. Please check carefully to make sure that the rifle in question is an AK-47 and not an AKM. When in doubt, it is probably safer to assume AKM, since the old AK-47 has not been in production for many, many years and is no longer as common in the real world - or Hollywood's rental armories - as its successor.

Original AK-47 design, hybrid stamped/milled receiver; 7.62x39mm.

Milled Receiver AK-47 design; 7.62x39mm.

AK-47

Film

• Numerous N.V.A. and V.C. soldiers and fighters in "Platoon"

• Numerous characters including Nicolas Cage as Yuri Orlov in Lord of War

• Crackhead in Hot Fuzz

• Colombian terrorists in Toy Soldiers

• Iraqi soldiers, Shiite refugees, and the main protagonists of Three Kings

• Bank robbers and gang members in S.W.A.T. (including two fitted with high-capacity drum magazines)

• Nigerian rebels in Tears of the Sun

• N.V.A. soldiers in We Were Soldiers

• R.U.F. rebels, and Leonardo DiCaprio as Danny Archer in Blood Diamond

• Jong Soo Park as Tran Chan Dinh in The Park is Mine

• Lycans in Underworld

• Escobedo's men in Clear and Present Danger

• Hijackers,Terrorists in Delta Force

• Arcadia 234 inhabitants in Soldier (including one with an Dragunov-esque stock)

• Việt Cộng fighters in Apocalypse Now

• Việt Cộng fighters in Jarhead (footage taken from Apocalypse Now)

• Việt Cộng fighters in A Better Tomorrow III

• Nomads in Flight of the Phoenix

• Waise Lee as Little Wing in Bullet in the Head

• P.L.O.Terrorists, Ugandan Army soldiers, Israeli Commando in Raid On Entebbe

• Soviet soldiers in Rocky IV

Anime

• Trigun

Video Games

• BLACK

• The World Is Not Enough (as the "Soviet KA-57")

• Grand Theft Auto 3

• Half-Life: Counter-strike - HL: CS Condition Zero

• Soldier of Fortune: Payback

• Kill.Switch

• Counter Strike: Source

• Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare

• Conflict: Desert Storm 2 Back to Baghdad

• SOCOM: Combined Assault

AKS-47U

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AKS-47U 7.62x39mm with folded stock

Film

• Claire Danes as Katherine Brewster and Nick Stahl as John Connor in Terminator 3: Rise of the Machines

• Sammi Rotibi as André Baptiste Jr. in Lord of War (gold-plated save for wooden parts)

• Art Malik in True Lies.

AKM

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AKM, Stamped Steel Receiver w/ slant muzzle brake 7.62x39mm

Film

• Soviet soldiers and the "Wolverines" in Red Dawn

• A terrorist in The Siege

• Reynaldo A. Gallegos as Tito Vargas in Bad Boys II

• Crimson Jihad terrorists and Arnold Schwarzenegger as Harry Tasker in True Lies

• Tommy Lee Jones in The Park is Mine (with two magazines taped together 'jungle style', loaded with blanks and live rounds)

• Serbian soldiers and Owen Wilson as Lt. Chris Burnett in Behind Enemy Lines

• Guerrillas in Predator

• Libyan terrorists in Back to the Future

• Afghan Mujahideen in The Beast of War

• Cuban Army soliders in Bad Boys II

• Colombian drug cartel henchmen in XXX

• Clint Eastwood and various Cuban Soldiers in Heartbreak Ridge

• Mel Gibson as Detective Martin Riggs in Lethal Weapon 4

• Crimson Jihad terrorists in True Lies

• IRA terrorists in Patriot Games

• A cartel member in A Man Apart

Television

• Abu Fayed's men in 24

• Iraqi insurgents and soldiers in Over There

• Rebels in a parallel universe in Doctor Who

• Terrorists in The Unit

Video Games

• Uncharted: Drake's Fortune

AKMS

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Polish AKMS, Stamped Steel Receiver w/ slant muzzle brake and Underfolding Stock 7.62x39mm

Basically the same as the AKM, but the rear-trunion is altered with a swiveling mechanism to allow for the underfolding stock.

Film

• Somali militiamen in Black Hawk Down (Chinese Type 56-1)

• U.S. Navy SEALs in Navy SEALs

• Danny Trejo as Trejo in Heat

• Soviet soldiers in The Beast of War

• Isla Los Organos guards and North Korean soldiers in Die Another Day

• Colombian terrorists in Toy Soldiers

• R.U.F. rebels, government soldiers, and Leonardo DiCaprio as Danny Archer in Blood Diamond (Chinese Type 56-1)

Television

• One of Deke Quinlan's men, Leo Fitzpatrick as "Mr. Mouse", and Adam Cantor as Rocko in The Kill Point

• Keifer Sutherland as Agent Jack Bauer in 24

AKMSU

Film

• Haitian gang members in Bad Boys II

• A Cartel member in A Man Apart

• Philip Kwok as Mad Dog in Hard Boiled

• Bodyguards in Ronin

Television

• CSI: Miami