Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0097363400264
Format: NTSC
Region Code: 1
Sales Rank: 82897
Theatrical Release Date: March 01, 2002
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Amazon.com:
Based on the book by Lt. Col. Harold Moore (ret.) and journalist Joseph Galloway, We Were Soldiers offers a dignified reminder that the Vietnam War yielded its own crop of American heroes. Departing from Hollywood's typically cynical treatment of the war, writer-director Randall Wallace focuses on the first engagement of American soldiers with the North Vietnamese enemy in November 1965. Moore (played with colorful nuance by Mel Gibson) and nearly 400 inexperienced troopers from the U.S. Air Cavalry were surrounded by 2,000 North Vietnamese Army soldiers, and the film re-creates this brutal firefight with graphic authenticity, while telling the parallel story of grieving army wives back home. While UPI reporter Galloway (Barry Pepper) risks his life to chronicle the battle, Wallace offers a balanced (though somewhat fictionalized) perspective while eliciting laudable performances from an excellent cast. Like the best World War II dramas of the 1940s, We Were Soldiers pays tribute to brave men while avoiding the pitfalls of propaganda. --Jeff Shannon
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this movie was great!! my favorite movie. this is a real action packed movie! it takes place it korea and the soldiers are droped off in the middle of north korea territory. watch them fight there way out of a huge battle!!!!!
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One of the BEST movies I have ever seen. If ever there was a leadership movie this is it. This is a man's man who put his men first and still got the job accomplished. GREAT MOVIE!!!
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Having studied the Vietnam war for decades, I can safely say this DVD is the closest movie yet to what really happened at the Ia Drang Valley during that 3 day battle. Sure there are hyped up scenes and mis-characterizations, but remember, it was made in Hollywood and Hollywood takes editorial privilege with everything they do. For those of us who served during that time or had buddies who served and died there, it brings back some awful, heart-wrenching and ugly memories. I have watched it many ... Read More
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Excellent movie which shows the compassion and guts it takes to be a soldier as well as a father, husband or son.
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I ordered this DVD based on the praise in the reviews, because I wanted a DVD that showed how the the war in Vietnam with the North actually was. I was not disappointed. Mel Gibson, who played the part of Lt. Col Hal Moore did an excellent job. And the Producers, and the Director, Randall Wallace, produced and directed an outstanding movie. They did an excellent job of depicting the scenes as they actually happened, or as close as possible. And the inclusion of the Wives and Families was a brilliant ... Read More
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