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Release Date: 2002

Cast: Mel Gibson, Desmond Harrington, Luke Benward, Chris Klein, Dylan Walsh, Barry Pepper, Mike White, Greg Kinnear, Mark McCracken, Taylor Momsen, Sam Elliott, Keri Russell ...MORE

Cast: Mel Gibson, Desmond Harrington, Luke Benward, Chris Klein, Dylan Walsh, Barry Pepper, Mike White, Greg Kinnear, Mark McCracken, Taylor Momsen, Sam Elliott, Keri Russell, Jon Hamm, Joshua McLaurin, Josh Daugherty, Blake Heron, Ryan Hurst, Jsu Garcia, Robert Bagnell, Don Duong, Erik MacArthur, Clark Gregg, Edwin Morrow, Marc Blucas, Devon Werkheiser, Madeleine Stowe ...LESS

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We Were Soldiers is a 2002 American 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 by Lieutenant General (Ret.) Hal Moore and reporter Joseph L. Galloway, both of whom were at the battle. A French unit is on patrol in Vietnam in 1954, during the First Indochina War. The unit is suddenly ambushed by Viet Minh forces, who kill the officers. Although the French soldiers kill many Viet Minh, the unit is soon overrun. Nguyen Huu An (Don Duong) orders... MORE

We Were Soldiers is a 2002 American 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 by Lieutenant General (Ret.) Hal Moore and reporter Joseph L. Galloway, both of whom were at the battle. A French unit is on patrol in Vietnam in 1954, during the First Indochina War. The unit is suddenly ambushed by Viet Minh forces, who kill the officers. Although the French soldiers kill many Viet Minh, the unit is soon overrun. Nguyen Huu An (Don Duong) orders the execution of all surviving French soldiers, to discourage further French involvement in Vietnam. Eleven years later, the United States had entered the Vietnam War. U.S. Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore (Mel Gibson) is depicted as dedicated and deeply committed to training troops under his command (the 7th Cavalry Regiment), who are preparing for deployment to Vietnam. He is disquieted because the 7th Cavalry regiment was the unit commanded by General George Custer in the 19th Century when he and his men were slaughtered at the Battle of the Little Bighorn. Moore is also dismayed because President LESS