TY - ADVS AU - Davey,Bruce AU - McEveety,Stephen AU - Wallace,Randall AU - Gibson,Mel AU - Stowe,Madeleine AU - Kinnear,Greg AU - Elliott,Sam AU - Klein,Chris AU - Russell,Keri AU - Pepper,Barry AU - Duong,Don AU - Hurst,Ryan AU - Semler,Dean AU - Hoy,William AU - Glennie-Smith,Nick AU - Boyd,Michael T. AU - Sanders,Tom AU - Moore,Harold G. AU - Galloway,Joseph L. ED - Paramount Pictures. ED - Icon Productions. ED - Wheelhouse Entertainment (Firm) TI - We were soldiers SN - 0792182103 PY - 2002/// CY - Hollywood, Calif. PB - Paramount KW - Vietnam War, 1961-1975 KW - Campaigns KW - Ia Drang Valley, Battle of, Vietnam, 1965 KW - Feature films KW - Videorecordings KW - Films for the hearing impaired KW - lcsh KW - War films N1 - Based on the book "We were soldiers once ... and young" by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (ret.) and Joseph L. Galloway; English track: Dolby digital 2.0 surround; Dolby digital 6.1 EX; French track: Dolby digital 2.0 surround; Commentary: Dolby digital 2.0; With: 10 deleted scenes with commentary; Getting it right behind-the-scenes of We ere soldiers; Commentary by director/writer Randall Wallace; 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; MPAA rating: R N2 - 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 ER -