We Were Soldiers - We Were Soldiers

War

Mel Gibson	Lt. Col. Hal Moore
Denis Leary	Lt. John L. Geoghegan
Greg Kinnear	Major Bruce Crandall
Ryan Hurst	Barbara Geoghegan
Madeleine Stowe	Julie Moore
Erik MacArthur	Spec. 4 Russell Adams
Barry Pepper	Joseph L. Galloway
Taylor Momsen	Capt. Tony Nadal
Josh Daugherty	Spec. 4 Bob Ouellette
Marc Blucas	1st Lt. Charlie Hastings
Sam Elliott	Sgt. Maj. Basil Plumley
Chris Klein	2nd Lt. Jack Geoghegan
Keri Russell	Barbara Geoghegan
Don Duong	Lt. Col. Nguyen Huu An
Robert Bagnell	1st Lt. Charlie Hastings

Director	Randall Wallace
Producer	Bruce Davey; Stephen McEveety
Writer	Randall Wallace; Harold G. Moore; Joseph L. Galloway

Screenwriter Randall Wallace, a specialist in sweeping historical epics, steps behind the camera for this fact-based Vietnam War drama that reunites him with his Braveheart (1995) star Mel Gibson. Gibson is Lt. Col. Hal Moore, commander of the First Battalion, Seventh Cavalry, the same regiment fatefully led by George Armstrong Custer. As part of the Pleiku Campaign of late 1965, Moore is assigned to an action at Landing Zone X-Ray in the Drang Valley, an area that would come to be known as the "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 men like Moore, chopper pilot Bruce Crandall (Greg Kinnear), and Lt. Henry Herrick (Marc Blucas) refuse to yield, in spite of heavy losses of life. The film co-stars Madeleine Stowe, Chris Klein, Keri Russell, and Sam Elliott. We Were Soldiers is based on the book We Were Soldiers Once...and Young by Lt. Gen. Harold G. Moore (retired) and UPI reporter Joe Galloway (played in the film by Barry Pepper). — Karl Williams