Claim: Matthew McConaughey was in the war film U-571 in 2000.
Evidence: He appeared in such films as the slasher Texas Chainsaw Massacre : The Next Generation -LRB- 1994 -RRB- , the legal thriller A Time to Kill -LRB- 1996 -RRB- , Steven Spielberg 's historical drama Amistad -LRB- 1997 -RRB- , the science fiction drama Contact -LRB- 1997 -RRB- , the comedy EDtv -LRB- 1999 -RRB- , and the war film U-571 -LRB- 2000 -RRB-.
U-571 is a 2000 French-American war film directed by Jonathan Mostow and starring Matthew McConaughey , Bill Paxton , Harvey Keitel , Thomas Kretschmann , Jon Bon Jovi , Jack Noseworthy , Will Estes and Tom Guiry.