We Were Soldiers

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)., Lt. Col. Hal Moore leads the 7th Cavalry into the first major battle of the Vietnam War in 1965. Contained to an area the size of a football field and surrounded by 2,000 enemy troops, Moore and his men fight for survival in one of the bloodiest engagements of the war., Picked to lead the first US troops into Vietnam, Lt Col Hal Moore drills his boys in preparation for battle. But Moore isn’t just a soldier: he is a son, a husband and a father., Vietnam War drama about an elite combat unit of four hundred soldiers preparing to face two thousand North Vietnamese fighters in a small clearing in an area later known as the Valley of Death. Adapted from the book We Were Soldiers Once. . . and Young by Lt Gen Harold G Moore., The star (Mel Gibson) and writer (Randall Wallace) of “Braveheart” reunited for this powerful war epic based on a true story. Gibson plays Lt. Col. Hal Moore, who leads U.S. troops into one of the first and bloodiest battles in Vietnam in November 1965. Madeleine Stowe, Sam Elliott, Greg Kinnear, Chris Klein, Barry Pepper, Keri Russell., American army chiefs begin to commit troops to Vietnam in 1964, starting with Lt Colonel Hal Moore and his Air Calvary Division. Training begins, and Moore’s wife Julie joins the army wives to see the men off to battle. Arriving in South Vietnam they are assigned a search-and-destroy mission on rural land. Another platoon spots the enemy and gives chase, unaware they are heading toward a stronghold of the North Vietnamese army. Stranded under fire, the pressure is on for Moore’s men, who fortify their position and begin a long, intense battle to save their comrades. It is the first of many such encounters in a brutal conflict…, Picked to lead the first US troops into Vietnam, Lt Col Hal Moore drills his boys in preparation for battle. But Moore isn’t just a soldier: he is a son, a husband and a father. And each of the men under his command bring their own fears and families to the battle. A moving wartime actioner., Mel Gibson stars in this fact-based Vietnam drama as Lt Col Hal Moore, commander of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, assigned to action in the Drang Valley. Soon, he and his men are cornered in a tiny area by more than 2,000 Viet-Cong and engaged in a fight to the death. Randall Wallace’s visceral film also stars Greg Kinnear, Barry Pepper and Marc Blucas., The first major battle of the Vietnam War in 1965, and the soldiers who were involved, are depicted in this drama.