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Release Date: 1996

Cast: Bronson Pinchot, Lou Diamond Phillips, Željko Ivanek, Michael Moriarty, Armand Darrius, Denzel Washington, David McSwain, Regina Taylor, Manny Perez, Sean Astin, Matt Damon, Meg Ryan ...MORE

Cast: Bronson Pinchot, Lou Diamond Phillips, Željko Ivanek, Michael Moriarty, Armand Darrius, Denzel Washington, David McSwain, Regina Taylor, Manny Perez, Sean Astin, Matt Damon, Meg Ryan, Scott Glenn, Sean Patrick Thomas, Seth Gilliam, Tim Guinee, Ned Vaughn ...LESS

Categories: Movies, Political Drama, War Film, Gulf War, Detective, Detective Fiction, Crime Fiction, Political Thriller, Mystery, Drama Film, Thriller

Courage Under Fire is a 1996 film directed by Edward Zwick, and starring Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips and Matt Damon. It is one of the first films to depict the 1991 Gulf War. Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling (Denzel Washington) was involved in a friendly fire incident in Al Bathra during the Gulf War. He was an M1 Abrams tank battalion commander who, during the nighttime confusion of Iraqi tanks infiltrating his unit's lines, gave the order to fire, destroying one of his own tanks and killing his friend Captain Boylar. The details were covered up (Boylar's parents... MORE

Courage Under Fire is a 1996 film directed by Edward Zwick, and starring Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips and Matt Damon. It is one of the first films to depict the 1991 Gulf War. Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling (Denzel Washington) was involved in a friendly fire incident in Al Bathra during the Gulf War. He was an M1 Abrams tank battalion commander who, during the nighttime confusion of Iraqi tanks infiltrating his unit's lines, gave the order to fire, destroying one of his own tanks and killing his friend Captain Boylar. The details were covered up (Boylar's parents were told that their son was killed by enemy fire), and Serling was shuffled off to a desk job. Later, he is assigned to determine if Army Captain Karen Emma Walden (Meg Ryan) should be the first woman to receive (posthumously) the Medal of Honor for valor in combat. A Medevac Huey commander, she was sent to rescue the crew of a Black Hawk that had been shot down. Finding them under heavy fire from an Iraqi tank and infantry, her men dropped an auxiliary fuel bladder on the tank and ignited it with a flare gun. Shortly after, her helicopter was also hit and downed. The two crews were unable to LESS