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We Were Soldiers

Synopsis:

Screenwriter Randall Wallace, a specialist in sweeping historical epics, steps behind the camera for this fact-based Vietnam War drama that reunites him with his Braveheart (1995) star Mel Gibson. Gibson is Lt. Col. Hal Moore, commander of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, the same regiment fatefully led by George Armstrong Custer. As part of the Pleiku Campaign of late 1965, Moore is assigned to an action at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Drang Valley, an area that would come to be known as the "The Valley of Death.


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Movie Details:

  • Director: Randall Wallace
  • Studio: The Wheelhouse, Icon Productions
  • Year: 2002
  • Run Time: 137 minutes
  • Country: USA
  • Language: English
  • MPAA Rating: R (for sustained sequences of graphic war violence, and for language)
  • Category: Feature
  • Genre/Type: War
  • Filmed in: Color
  • Release: 2002 03 01 (USA)

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