Top Cast
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Abdelhak Benmarouf
Lakhdar
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Ali Bourezak
Kaddour
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Abderrahmane Cheriti
Grichaud
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Jean-Claude Petit
Torpierre
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An Chinh
Liên
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Trần Lực
Nam
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Lê Khanh
The nurse
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Mạnh Cường
The Vietnamese officer
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Hoàng Yến
Liên's mother
Overview
After his family was brutally murdered by French settlers on his wedding day, an Algerian man joins the French army and is sent to Vietnam to fight in the First Indochina War.
Rating
Recommendations
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Jacknife
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Men in War
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The One That Got Away
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Behold a Pale Horse
Lt. Col. Iceal "Ham" Hambleton is a weapons countermeasures expert and when his aircraft is shot over enemy territory the Air Force very much wants to get him back. Hambleton knows the area he's in is going to be carpet-bombed but a temporary shortage of helicopters causes a delay. Working with an Air Force reconnaissance pilot, Capt. Bartholomew Clark, he maps out an escape route.
Bat★21
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The Beast
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The Secrets We Keep
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The War Below
Two young soldiers, Bartle and Murph, navigate the terrors of the Iraq war under the command of the older, troubled Sergeant Sterling. All the while, Bartle is tortured by a promise he made to Murph's mother before their deployment.