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Maximum action, minimum drama! We Were Soldiers is a powerful and bloody war movie based on a true story that moves at a heart-racing and ear-shattering pace! On Sunday November 14, 1965 at 10:48 a.m., Lt. Col. Hal Moore (a magnificent performance by Academy Award-winner Mel Gibson) and his regiment of 400 men touch down at Landing Zone X-ray in the Ia Drang Valley, a place in Vietnam known as "The Valley of Death". They find themselves surrounded by roughly 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers and the ensuing battle becomes one of the most savage in US history. Heroism, bravery, sacrifice, the butchery of battle, We Were Soldiers is a gruelling exploration of war with all its horrors, that can rightly take its place alongside war classics Apocalypse Now, Saving Private Ryan and Platoon.

2002 · 2h 12m
Director Randall Wallace

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We Were Soldiers

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Maximum action, minimum drama! We Were Soldiers is a powerful and bloody war movie based on a true story that moves at a heart-racing and ear-shattering pace! On Sunday November 14, 1965 at 10:48 a.m., Lt. Col. Hal Moore (a magnificent performance by Academy Award-winner Mel Gibson) and his regiment of 400 men touch down at Landing Zone X-ray in the Ia Drang Valley, a place in Vietnam known as "The Valley of Death". They find themselves surrounded by roughly 2,000 North Vietnamese soldiers and the ensuing battle becomes one of the most savage in US history. Heroism, bravery, sacrifice, the butchery of battle, We Were Soldiers is a gruelling exploration of war with all its horrors, that can rightly take its place alongside war classics Apocalypse Now, Saving Private Ryan and Platoon.

COMMON SENSE

One of the most violent movies ever released.

TOMATOMETER
Average 6.5
Reviews 144
Fresh 91
Rotten 53

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Studio
Paramount Pictures
Released
2002
Run Time
2 hr 12 min
Rated
R For sustained sequences of graphic war violence, and for language.
Regions of Origin
United States, Germany
© 2002 Paramount Pictures

Languages

Original Audio
English, English (Vietnam), French, French (France), Vietnamese
Audio

English (United States) (AD, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩, AAC)

Subtitles

English (United States) (CC), French (Canada) , Spanish (Latin America)

Accessibility

Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.
Audio descriptions (AD) refer to a narration track describing what is happening on screen, to provide context for those who are blind or have low vision.