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Certificate 15

Cast Mel Gibson Sam Elliott Madeleine Stowe Greg Kinnear Chris Klein

Directors Randall Wallace

Screenwriters Randall Wallace

Running Time 138 minutes

We Were Soldiers

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Plot
November, 1965. Trained in the new art of air-mobile warfare under the command of Lt. Col. Hal Moore, the 1st Battalion of the 7th Air Cavalry ride by helicopter into the Ia Drang Valley, to engage with the People’s Army of North Vietnam in the first major battle of the Vietnam War...

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