Windtalkers

Windtalkers
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A powerful, true story about members of the Navajo tribe who proudly served the U.S. in WWII as code talkers by using their native language as a code to relay information to military leaders. Unbeknownst to the Navajo is the dark secret that they're to be killed by American soldiers if one of them is in danger of being captured.

2002 · 2h 14m
  • 33%
  • 16+
Starring Nicolas Cage, Adam Beach, Peter Stormare
Director John Woo

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Cast & Crew

  • Nicolas Cage
    Sergeant Joe Enders
  • Adam Beach
    Private Ben Yahzee
  • Peter Stormare
    Hjelmstad
  • Noah Emmerich
    Private Chick
  • Mark Ruffalo
    Private Pappas
  • Brian Van Holt
    Harrigan
  • Martin Henderson
    Nellie
  • Roger Willie
    Charlie Whitehorse
  • Frances O'Connor
    Rita
  • Christian Slater
    Ox Henderson
  • Jason Isaacs
    Major Mellitz

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Windtalkers

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A powerful, true story about members of the Navajo tribe who proudly served the U.S. in WWII as code talkers by using their native language as a code to relay information to military leaders. Unbeknownst to the Navajo is the dark secret that they're to be killed by American soldiers if one of them is in danger of being captured.

16+

COMMON SENSE

War film relies too much on relentless violence.

33%

TOMATOMETER
Average 5.6
Reviews 161
Fresh 53
Rotten 108

Information

Studio
MGM
Released
2002
Run Time
2 hr 14 min
Rated
R For pervasive graphic war violence, and for language.
Region of Origin
United States
© 2002 Metro Goldwyn Mayer Pictures Inc. All Rights Reserved.

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Original Audio
English
Audio

English (United States) (AAC, ⁨Dolby 5.1⁩), French (Canada) (AAC), Spanish (Latin America) (AAC)

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English (CC), English (United States) , Arabic , Cantonese, Traditional , Chinese, Traditional , Croatian , Czech , Danish , Dutch , Finnish , French (France) , German (Germany) , Greek , Hebrew , Hungarian , Korean , Malay (Malaysia) , Norwegian , Polish , Portuguese (Brazil) , Portuguese (Portugal) , Slovenian , Spanish (Latin America) , Spanish (Spain) , Swedish , Thai , Turkish

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Closed captions (CC) refer to subtitles in the available language with the addition of relevant non-dialogue information.
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