We were soldiers / Paramount Pictures and Icon Productions present an Icon/Wheelhouse Entertainment production, a Randall Wallace film ; producers, Bruce Davey, Stephen McEveety, Randall Wallace ; written for the screen and directed by Randall Wallace.
Lt. Col. Hal Moore is the commander of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry. As part of the Pleiku Campaign of late 1965, Moore is assigned to action at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley, an area known to be overrun by North Vietnamese troops and nicknamed "The Valley of Death." Moore soon f...
| Uniform Title: | We were soldiers (Motion picture)
Rovi Media Collection. Movies. Widescreen DVD collection. |
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| Language: | English Spanish |
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Closed captioned. |
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Hollywood, Calif. :
Paramount,
[2002], ©2002.
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| Edition: | Widescreen version. |
| Series: | Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Widescreen DVD collection. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 videodisc (138 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. |
| Format: | Video DVD |
| Summary: |
Lt. Col. Hal Moore is the commander of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry. As part of the Pleiku Campaign of late 1965, Moore is assigned to action at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley, an area known to be overrun by North Vietnamese troops and nicknamed "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 the men refuse to yield, in spite of heavy losses of life. |
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| Note: | Based on the book "We were soldiers once ... and young" by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway. Special features: commentary by director/writer Randall Wallace; deleted scenes; "Getting it right" - a behind-the-scenes featurette of "We were soldiers." Videorecording. |
| Call Number: | DS557.8.I18 W419 2002 VideoDVD AJ4 D0017858 VideoDVD |
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MPAA rating: R. |
| ISBN: | 0792182103 9780792182108 |
| Credits: | Director of photography, Dean Semler ; editor, William Hoy ; music, Nick Glennie-Smith ; costume designer, Michael T. Boyd ; production designer, Tom Sanders. |
| System Details: | DVD, Dolby stereo. |
| Cast: |
Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott, Chris Klein, Keri Russell, Barry Pepper, Don Duong, Ryan Hurst. |