The song "Surfin' Bird" was used in which of these Stanley Kubrick films?

"Full Metal Jacket", a 1987 war drama film, uses the song "Surfin' Bird", a song performed by American surf rock band 'The Trashmen'. This is a song that contains the repetitive lyric "the bird is the word".

In this film which was directed and produced by Stanley Kubrick, it has a specific storyline that follows a platoon of U.S. Marines through their boot camp training in Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, primarily focusing in the first half of the film on privates J.T. Davis and Leonard Lawrence, nicknamed Joker and Pyle. They along with others struggle under their abusive drill instructor Gunnery Sergeant Hartman. In the film's second half, it portrays the experiences of Joker and one other of the platoon's Marines in the Vietnamese cities Da Nang and Huế during the Tet Offensive of the Vietnam War.

The film's screenplay along with Kubrick was also co-written by Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford. The film is based on Hasford's 1979 novel "The Short-Timers". It stars Matthew Modine, Lee Ermey, Vincent D'Onofrio and Adam Baldwin. Others in the cast include Dorian Harewood, Arliss Howard, Kevyn Major Howard, and Ed O'Ross. Cinematography was by Douglas Milsome, editing by Martin Hunter, and music scoring Abigail Mead (pseudonym for Vivian Kubrick, Stanley Kubrick's daughter).

The film received critical acclaim and commercially grossed $120 million against a budget of $16 million. It was nominated for an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay.