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We Were Soldiers is a american film of genre War directed by Randall Wallace released in USA on 1 march 2002 with Mel Gibson
We Were Soldiers (2002)
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Add to a movie listWe Were Soldiers is a 2002 war film that dramatizes the Battle of Ia Drang on November 14, 1965. The film was directed by Randall Wallace and stars Mel Gibson. It is based on the book We Were Soldiers Once… And Young (1992) by Lieutenant General (Ret.) Hal Moore and reporter Joseph L. Galloway, both of whom were at the battle.
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A French unit on patrol in Vietnam in 1954, during the final year of the First Indochina War, is ambushed by Viet Minh forces. Viet Minh commander Nguyen Huu An orders his soldiers to "kill all they send, and they will stop coming".Actors
Mel Gibson
(Lt. Col. Hal Moore)
Madeleine Stowe
(Julie Moore)
Sam Elliott
(Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley)
Greg Kinnear
(Maj. Bruce 'Snake' Crandall)
Chris Klein
(2nd Lt. Jack Geoghegan)
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