A fact-based tale of men under fire, their common acts of uncommon valor, and their loyalty to and love for one another during one of the most savage military battles in U.S. history. On November 14, 1965, in the Ia Drang Valley of Vietnam, in a small clearing called Landing Zone X-Ray, Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore and 400 troopers from the U.S. 7th Air Cavalry are surrounded by 2000 enemy soldiers in what would become the first, and perhaps the worst, major battle of the Vietnam War.
Production Icon Entertainment International; Motion Picture Production GmbH & Co. Erste KG [de]; Wheelhouse Entertainment;
Cast Names Keni Thomas; Ben Allison; Phong Atwood Vo; Brian Carpenter; Kelli Franklin; Chris Cate; Shannon M. Hart; George Cheung; Cliff Fleming; Brendan Ford; Christian Gibson; Edward Gibson; William Gibson; Justin Gordon; Lyndon Johnson; Derrell Keith Lester; Will Klipstine; Matthew Lang; Danny Le Boyer; Matt Mangum; Johnny Nguyen; Randy Oglesby; Jonathan Parks Jordan; John Paul Rice; Mel Gibson; Madeleine Stowe; Greg Kinnear; Sam Elliott; Chris Klein; Keri Russell;
Box Office USD 78,120,196
Release Date 2002-02-25 (premiere) 2002-03-01
Genres Action; History; War;
MPAA Rating [?] Rated R for sustained sequences of graphic war violence, and for
language.
Running Time 2 hr. 18 min. 2 hr. 20 min. 2 hr. 6 min. (cut) 2 hr. 23 min. 2 hr. 4 min. (TV version)