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Release Date
• USA: Mar 1, 2002
• UK: 8 Mar 2002
DVD Release Date
• R1: Aug 19, 2003
• R2: 2 Sep 2002
Budget $75,000,000
Official Website:
We Were Soldiers Website
MPAA Rating
Rated R for sustained sequences of graphic war violence, and for language.
Running Time
2 hours, 18 minutes
Country USA, Germany
Studio Icon Productions, The Wheelhouse
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Other Titles
• We Were Soldiers
• We Were Soldiers Once... and Young (2001)
• Wir waren Helden (2002)
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Genre: Action, War, Drama, Military, Gore, True Story, Suspense
Tagline: Fathers, Brothers, Husbands & Sons.
Plot: In 1965, 400 American troops faced an ambush by 2,000 enemy troops in the Ia Drang Valley (also known as the Valley of Death), in one of the most gruesome fights of the Vietnam War. WE WERE SOLDIERS is a detailed recreation of this true story: of the strategies, obstacles, and human cost faced by the troops that participated. The story focuses on the lieutenant colonel that led the attack, Hal Moore (Mel Gibson), and a civilian reporter who accompanied them, Joseph Galloway (Barry Pepper), as well as a number of other soldiers who were involved. This is an unusual Vietnam film in that it also shows the North Vietnamese perspective on the battle; their leader Lieutenant General Nguyen Huu An (Don Duong) is depicted as a brave soldier and smart commander. And in addition to the many gory battlefield sequences--which seem to have been influenced by SAVING PRIVATE RYAN--we also see how the carnage of war affects those left behind, the soldiers' wives and children. Ultimately this is a moving anti-war film, which, by sticking close to the true stories of real soldiers, very effectively brings home the overwhelming horror of war.
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 | Madeleine Stowe
Twelve Monkeys, The Last of the Mohicans, The General's Daughter |
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 | Sam Elliott
Hulk, Tombstone, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid |
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 | Keri Russell
Mission: Impossible III, The Upside of Anger, Honey, I Blew Up the Kid |
 | Barry Pepper
Saving Private Ryan, The Green Mile, Enemy of the State |
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