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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." Mo...

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Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:We were soldiers (Motion picture)
Corporate Author: Icon Productions (presenster.)
Other Authors: Wallace, Randall, 1949- (Screenwriter), Gibson, Mel (Actor), Stowe, Madeleine (Actor), Kinnear, Greg, 1963- (Actor), Elliott, Sam, 1944- (Actor), Klein, Chris, 1979- (Actor), Russell, Keri, 1976- (Actor), Pepper, Barry, 1970- (Actor), Duong, Don, 1957-2011 (Actor), Hurst, Ryan, 1976- (Actor), Semler, Dean, 1943- (director of photography.), Hoy, William (editor of moving image.), Glennie-Smith, Nick (composer (expression)), Boyd, Michael T. (Costume designer), Moore, Harold G., 1922-2017
Format: Video
Language:English
Language Notes:Closed captioned.
Published: [Hollywood, California] : Paramount Pictures, 2002.
Subjects:
Vietnam War, 1961-1975 > Campaigns > Drama.
Ia Drang Valley, Battle of, Vietnam, 1965 > Drama.
Military campaigns.
Vietnam.
1961-1975
Streaming video.
Drama.
War films.
Fiction films.
Feature films.
Film adaptations.
Internet videos.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Online Access:Connect to this streaming video (Swank Digital Campus)
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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.
Item Description:Originally released as a motion picture by Paramount Pictures, 2002.
Based upon the book, "We Were Soldiers Once...and Young" by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore and Joseph L. Galloway.
Physical Description:1 online resource (1 video file (139 min.)) : color, sound
Audience:MPAA rating: R.
Production Credits:Director of photography, Dean Semler ; editor, William Hoy ; music, Nick Glennie-Smith ; costume designer, Michael T. Boyd ; production designer, Tom Sanders.