Director: John Swab
Frank Grillo plays a soldier pulled back into combat for one last mission in Long Gone Heroes, a 2024 action thriller shot across Puerto Rico, Colombia, and the United States.
What is Long Gone Heroes about?
Grillo's character has already walked away from military life, having lost his faith in country and cause alike, when word reaches him that his niece, a journalist, has gone missing while investigating a private military contracting operation that collapsed into violence. Forced back into a world he thought he'd left behind, he tracks the operation's fallout through dangerous territory, running into old allies and new threats as the search narrows. Josh Hutcherson plays a key figure tangled up in the same fallout, while Andy García and Mekhi Phifer appear as men with their own stakes in how the operation's collapse gets handled. Director John Swab keeps the story moving through firefights, tense standoffs, and shifting loyalties as the true scale of the contracting scheme comes into focus, building toward a rescue that costs more than anyone involved expects to pay.
Cast & crew
Frank Grillo leads as the soldier drawn back into the field, with Josh Hutcherson, Andy García, and Melissa Leo in key supporting roles. Beau Knapp, Eden Brolin, Wendy Moniz, and Mekhi Phifer round out the ensemble across the film's multi-country cast.
Context & significance
Long Gone Heroes was directed by John Swab and released in 2024 as an international co-production spanning Colombia, Puerto Rico, and the United States. It sits within the private-military-contractor thriller genre, following a soldier-turned-civilian pulled back into violence by a family connection rather than a chain of command.
Where & how to watch
Long Gone Heroes is available on K-Time with Persian dubbing and Persian subtitles included. The film's page can be read by anyone without signing in, and watching it only requires a free K-Time account, on a service built around Farsi-language streaming for viewers in the Iranian diaspora.