02979cgm a2200577 4500 367878883 TxAuBib 20190109120000.0 020616s2002||||||||||||||||||||||v|eng|u 9780792185369 0792185366 9736340023 340023 Paramount Pictures (OCoLC)50005592 TxAuBib We were soldiers [video] / 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. Hollywood, Calif : Paramount Pictures, 2002. 1 videocassette (ca. 138 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in. Title from container. Based on the book "We were soldiers once ... and young" by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway. Formatted to fit TV screen. Director of photography, Dean Semler ; editor, William Hoy ; music, Nick Glennie-Smith ; costume designer, Michael T. Boyd ; production designer, Tom Sanders. Mel Gibson, Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott, Chris Klein, Keri Russell, Barry Pepper, Don Duong, Ryan Hurst. 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. MPAA rating: R. Also issued on DVD. VHS; hi-fi, stereo., Dolby surround. 20190109. Closed-captioned. Vietnam War (1961-1975) Campaigns Drama. Feature films. Films for the hearing impaired. Davey, Bruce. McEveety, Stephen. Wallace, Randall. Gibson, Mel. Stowe, Madeleine. Kinnear, Greg, 1963- Elliott, Sam, 1944- Klein, Chris, 1979- Russell, Keri, 1976- Pepper, Barry, 1970- Duong, Don, 1957-2011. Hurst, Ryan, 1976- Semler, Dean, 1943- Moore, Harold G., 1922-2017. Galloway, Joseph L. Paramount Pictures Corporation (1914-1927). Icon Productions. Wheelhouse Entertainment (Firm).