Purple Heart is a 2006 action-war film directed, co-writer and co-produced by Bill Birrell.
As the leader of the unit that trained Padilla, Colonel Allen is sent with specific orders to go find him and "solve the problem" permanently.
As it turns out, there was no real-life mission at all: it was the final, most severe training exercise that broke Padilla's soul – and mind.
The film raises questions about the moral obligations of the use of military power, and the methods that the U.S. uses to train and ultimately sacrifice its own soldiers.
Purple Heart was released in the Egyptian Theatre in Los Angeles, CA for the Artivist Film Festival.