We Were Soldiers

It's been called the battle that changed the war in Vietnam. The savage, five-day melee that erupted at two separate locations in central South Vietnam in November, 1965, was the first full-on engagement between American and North Vietnamese troops, and transformed a police action in a faraway land into a full-blown war. Adapted from the acclaimed book We Were Soldiers Once... and Young, by Lt. General Harold G. Moore, commander of the first battalion to fight and die in the Ia Drang river valley, and UPI reporter Joseph L. Galloway, who witnessed the whole thing, director Randall Wallace's loud and grisly bloodbath tells half the story: The battle around the ...