We Were Soldiers (2002)

Directed by

Randall Wallace

Genre

drama film, war film

Country

Germany, United States

Runtime

1h 46m

Rated

R

Rating

7.1 of 10 from 2,309 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A U.S. Army commander leads his men into the first major battle of the Vietnam War in the Ia Drang Valley. The film follows the soldiers on the ground and their families waiting at home.

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What happens

We Were Soldiers is a 2002 American war film co-produced, written and directed by Randall Wallace and starring Mel Gibson (both of whom previously worked together on Braveheart), Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott, Chris Klein, Keri Russell, Barry Pepper, Ryan Hurst, Marc Blucas, Clark Gregg, and Jon Hamm. The film is based on the 1992 book We Were Soldiers Once… and Young by Lieutenant General (Ret.) Hal Moore and reporter Joseph L. Galloway, dramatizing the Battle of Ia Drang on November 14, 1965. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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