MOVIE · 2002
We Were Soldiers
ActionAdventureDramaFamilyRomanceWar138 min
In 1965, as the Vietnam War escalates, Lt. Col. Hal Moore is sent with the U.S. air cavalry into the Ia Drang Valley, where he and his young troops face one of the first major battles of the American phase of the conflict. Mel Gibson is Moore, a career officer who promises his men and their families that no one will be left behind, dead or alive. Around him, the film follows soldiers heading into a brutal campaign and the strain on the wives waiting at home, with Madeleine Stowe among the figures on the home front.
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