| We Were Soldiers | |
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| Directed by | Randall Wallace |
| Screenplay by | Randall Wallace |
| Based on | We Were Soldiers Once… and Young by Hal Moore and Joseph L. Galloway |
| Produced by | Bruce Davey Stephen McEveety Randall Wallace |
| Starring | Mel Gibson Madeleine Stowe Greg Kinnear Sam Elliott Chris Klein Keri Russell Barry Pepper |
| Cinematography | Dean Semler |
| Edited by | William Hoy |
| Music by | Nick Glennie-Smith |
Production companies | Icon Productions Wheelhouse Entertainment |
| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures (United States) Concorde Filmverleih (Germany)[1] |
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Running time | 138 minutes[2] |
| Countries | United States Germany France |
| Languages | English Vietnamese French |
| Budget | $75 million |
| Box office | $115.4 million |
We Were Soldiers is a 2002 American war film written and directed by Randall Wallace and starring Mel Gibson. Based on the book We Were Soldiers Once… and Young (1992) by Lieutenant General (Ret.) Hal Moore and reporter Joseph L. Galloway, it dramatizes the Battle of Ia Drang on November 14, 1965.
- ^ "Film #18714: We Were Soldiers". Lumiere. Retrieved May 10, 2021.
- ^ "WE WERE SOLDIERS (15)". British Board of Film Classification. February 12, 2002. Retrieved September 29, 2012.