Rating: R
Genre: War
Theatrical Release: 03/01/2002(USA)
Release Date: 08/20/2002
SubTitles: English
Dubbed: English/French
Sound: DD5.1/DS
Run Time: 138 Minutes
Flags: Graphic Violence, Adult Language, War Violence
Distributor/Studio: Paramount

Screenwriter Randall Wallace, a specialist in sweeping historical epics, steps behind the camera for this fact-based Vietnam War drama that reunites him with his Braveheart (1995) star Mel Gibson. Gibson is Lt. Col. Hal Moore, commander of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, the same regiment fatefully led by George Armstrong Custer. As part of the Pleiku Campaign of late 1965, Moore is assigned to an action at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Drang Valley, an area that would come to be known as the "The Valley of Death." Moore soon finds himself and his men contained to an area about the size of a football field, surrounded by more than 2,000 enemy troops and engaged in the first major battle of the war. Heroism becomes the order of the day as men like Moore, chopper pilot Bruce Crandall (Greg Kinnear), and Lt. Henry Herrick (Marc Blucas) refuse to yield, in spite of heavy losses of life. The film co-stars Madeleine Stowe, Chris Klein, Keri Russell, and Sam Elliott. We Were Soldiers is based on the book We Were Soldiers Once...and Young by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (retired) and UPI reporter Joe Galloway (played in the film by Barry Pepper).

~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

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Cast:
Mel Gibson - Lt. Col. Harold G. Moore

Production:
Randall Wallace - Director
Stephen McEveety Bruce Davey Randall Wallace - Producer
Danielle Lemmon Stephen Zapotoczny - Co Producer
Nick Glennie-Smith - Composer
William Hoy - Editor
Randall Wallace - Screen Writer
Richard Romig Naaman Marshall - Set Designer
David Nowell - Aerial Photography
Digital Domain - Animator
James F. Truesdale - Art Director
Kevin Kavanaugh - Art Director
Kim Winther - Art Director
Nilo Otero - Art Director
Eveleen Anne Bandy - Associate Producer
William Hoy - Associate Producer
Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore - Book Author
Amanda Mackey-Johnson - Casting
Cathy Sandrich Gelfond - Casting
Dean Semler - Cinematographer
Jason Powell - Consultant/advisor
Cliff Fleming - Coordinator
Michael T. Boyd - Costume Designer
Arne Schmidt - Executive Producer
Jim Lemley - Executive Producer
Tom Sanders - Production Designer
Allan Graf - Second Unit Director
Lloyd Ahern, Jr. - Second Unit Director Of Photography
Michael Gershman - Second Unit Director Of Photography
Richard Merryman - Second Unit Director Of Photography
Gary Fettis - Set Decorator
Geoffrey G. Rubay - Sound/Sound Designer
Lon Bender - Sound/Sound Designer
Mark Stoeckinger - Sound/Sound Designer
Tim Cooney - Sound/Sound Designer
Digital Domain - Special Effects
Paul Lombardi - Special Effects Coordinator
Mario Roberts - Stunts
Allan Graf - Stunts Coordinator
Daniel Dorrance - Supervising Art Director
David Goldberg - Visual Effects Supervisor
Joseph L. Galloway - Book Author

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