We Were Soldiers (2002)
Coming Out at 1 March 2002 in theaters.
Action, Drama, History
We Were Soldiers is war film directed by Randall Wallace and starring Mel Gibson. Based on the book We Were Soldiers Once… and Young (1992) by Lieutenant General (Ret.) Hal Moore and reporter Joseph L. Galloway, it dramatizes the Battle of Ia Drang on November 14, 1965.
A French unit on patrol in Vietnam in 1954, during the final year of the First Indochina War, is ambushed by Viet Minh forces, probably the Battle of Mang Yang Pass. Viet Minh commander Nguyen Huu An (Đơn Dương) orders his soldiers to “kill all they send, and they will stop coming”.
Eleven years later, the United States is fighting the Vietnam War. U.S. Army Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore (Mel Gibson) is chosen to train and lead a battalion. After arriving in Vietnam, he learns that an American base has been attacked, and is ordered to take his 400 men after the enemy and eliminate the North Vietnamese attackers, despite the fact that intelligence has no idea of the number of enemy troops. Moore leads a newly created air cavalry unit into the Ia Drang Valley. After landing, the soldiers capture a North Vietnamese soldier and learn from him that the location they were sent to is actually the base camp for a veteran North Vietnamese army division of 4,000 men.
Director: Randall Wallace
Writers: Harold G. Moore (book), Joseph L. Galloway (book), Randall Wallace
Stars: Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott, Chris Klein, Keri Russell, Barry Pepper
Cast:
Mel Gibson | … | Lt. Col. Hal Moore |
Madeleine Stowe | … | Julie Moore |
Greg Kinnear | … | Maj. Bruce ‘Snake’ Crandall |
Sam Elliott | … | Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley |
Chris Klein | … | 2nd Lt. Jack Geoghegan |
Keri Russell | … | Barbara Geoghegan |
Barry Pepper | … | Joe Galloway |
Duong Don | … | Lt. Col. Nguyen Huu An |
Ryan Hurst | … | Sgt. Ernie Savage |
Robert Bagnell | … | 1st Lt. Charlie Hastings |
Marc Blucas | … | 2nd Lt. Henry Herrick |
Josh Daugherty | … | Sp4 Robert Ouellette |
Jsu Garcia | … | Capt. Tony Nadal |
Jon Hamm | … | Capt. Matt Dillon |
Clark Gregg | … | Capt. Tom Metsker |
Desmond Harrington | … | Sp4 Bill Beck |
Blake Heron | … | Sp4 Galen Bungum |
Erik MacArthur | … | Sp4 Russell Adams |
Dylan Walsh | … | Capt. Robert Edwards |
Mark McCracken | … | Capt. Ed ‘Too Tall’ Freeman |
Edwin ‘EdVanz’d’ Morrow | … | Pfc. Willie Godboldt |
Brian Tee | … | Pfc. Jimmy Nakayama |
Sloane Momsen | … | Cecile Moore |
Bellamy Young | … | Catherine Metsker |
Simbi Kali | … | Alma Givens |
Jim Grimshaw | … | Maj. Gen. Henry Kinnard |
Forry Smith | … | Sfc. Carl Palmer |
Steven Nelson | … | Sp5 Charlie ‘Doc’ Lose |
Vincent Angell | … | Capt. Robert ‘Doc’ Carrera |
Michael Tomlinson | … | Col. Tim Brown |
Keith Szarabajka | … | Diplomatic Spook |
Tim Abell | … | Army Intelligence Officer |
Patrick St. Esprit | … | General in Hallway |
Mike White | … | Sfc. Bob White, Mortar Sergeant |
Daniel Roebuck | … | Medevac CO |
Maia Lien | … | Army Wife |
Dan Beene | … | Cab Driver |
Taylor Momsen | … | Daughter Julie Moore |
Joshua McLaurin | … | Greg Moore |
Devon Werkheiser | … | Steve Moore |
Luke Benward | … | David Moore |
Billinjer C. Tran | … | Viet Minh Sergeant |
Vien Hong | … | Mr. Nik |
Joseph Tran | … | NVA Prisoner |
Joseph Hieu | … | NVA Officer |
Lam Nguyen | … | NVA Soldier with Bayonet |
Diep Bui | … | NVA Wife |
Andrew Wallace | … | French Bugler |
Nicholas Hosking | … | French Captain |
Michael Giordani | … | French Lieutenant |
Shepard Koster | … | Reporter |
Kate Lombardi | … | Reporter |
Ingrid Semler | … | Reporter |
Jason Powell | … | Sgt. Robert Stokes |
Doug C. Cook | … | Capt. Ray Lefebvre |
Sean Bunch | … | Trooper on Fire |
F. Lee Reynolds | … | Chopper Crewman |
Stephen Zapotoczny | … | Edwards’ Radio Operator |
Frank Kostenko Jr. | … | Foxhole Trooper |
Ben Allison | … | Lt. Cochran |
Brian Carpenter | … | Sec. of Defense Robert McNamara |
Chris Cate | … | Soldier |
George Cheung | … | NVA Officer |
Greg Craft | … | Soldier |
Donald DeNoyer | … | Soldier |
Cliff Fleming | … | Capt. Jon Mills |
Brendan Ford | … | Jump Coordinator |
Kelli Franklin | … | Mrs. Charlie Hastings |
Christian Gibson | … | Soldier |
William Gibson | … | Soldier |
Anthony Gilbert | … | Soldier |
Justin Gordon | … | French Officer |
Shannon M. Hart | … | Army Wife |
Kimby Jagnandan | … | Spectator |
Lyndon B. Johnson | … | Self (archive footage) |
Derrell Keith Lester | … | Black Private |
Will Klipstine | … | Private Davey |
Matthew Lang | … | 1st Lt. John Arrington |
Danny Le Boyer | … | Sergeant |
Matt Mangum | … | Pvt. Soprano |
Johnny Nguyen | … | Young NVA Lieutenant |
Randy Oglesby | … | Lt. Col. List |
Jonathan Parks Jordan | … | White Private |
John Paul Rice | … | Pvt. John Henry |
Keni Thomas | … | Sergeant |
Phong Atwood Vo | … | North Vietnamese Soldier – South Vietnamese and vVillager (voice) |
Sources: imdb & wikipedia