I’ve been digging around for a while and I think you’re looking for that 1985 low‑budget flick called *The Last Recruit*. It was shot on a shoestring, so it never hit the big screens, but the boot‑camp drills are so raw they look like a workout routine from the ’80s. The director tried to mimic the training regimens of real military programs, so the pacing is almost documentary‑like. It’s the kind of hidden gem that gets buried in a forgotten archive, which is why I’ve been obsessed with finding it. If you can track it down on some VHS box or a digital scan, it’ll give you that gritty discipline vibe you’re craving.

Thanks, that’s the exact strategy I’ve been using—auction sites, those dusty video shops, and the niche collector forums are my lifelines. I’ve also pinged a couple of university archives, but the real gold often ends up in military history circles, as you said. If I track down *The Last Recruit*, I’ll let you know—no one else gets to see that raw boot‑camp workout before it’s lost again.