We Were Soldiers 2002

type: Movie

language: English

duration: 106 min

genre: drama

theme: war

director: Randall Wallace

Score: 7 / 10

We Were Soldiers is a 2002 American war film written and directed by Randall Wallace and starring Mel Gibson. Based on the book We Were Soldiers Once… and Young (1992) by Lieutenant General (Ret.) Hal Moore and reporter Joseph L. Galloway, it dramatizes the Battle of Ia Drang on November 14, 1965.

Plot

In 1954, the French Army's Group Mobile 100, on patrol during 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".

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author	Randall Wallace
contentLocation	Vietnam
director	Randall Wallace
editor	William Hoy
events	Battle of Ia Drang
genre	action drama
keywords	air assault air cavalry unit air controller ambush attack base camp battle of mang yang pass broken arrow bruce crandall bruce snake crandall cove end fight first indochina war forward air controller forward air controllers in the vietnam war french army french far east expeditionary corps friendly fire group mobile 100 hal moore ia drang valley indochina war kill land lieutenant colonel machine gun mortar napalm nguyen huu an north vietnam north vietnamese army outnumber people\'s army of vietnam rescue retire siege of plei me surround survive take advantage taxi driver trap us army viet cong viet minh vietnam veterans memorial vietnam war vietnam war memorial war memorial wound
musicBy	Nick Glennie-Smith
producer	Bruce Davey Stephen McEveety
productionCompany	Icon Productions
publisher	Icon Productions Leonine Holding Lumière Metropolitan Filmexport Paramount Pictures
recordedAt	Georgia
theme	war