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Synopsis: The pilot of a rescue copter, Captain Karen Walden, died shortly before her helicopter crew was rescued after it crashed in Desert Storm. It first appears that she made a spectacular rescue of a downed helicopter crew, then held her own crew together to fight off the Iraqis after her copter crashed. Lt. Colonel Serling, who is struggling with his own demons from Desert Storm, is assigned to investigate her worthiness for the Medal of Honor. But some conflicting accounts, from her crew and soldiers in the area, cause him to question whether she deserves it.
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery
Director(s): Edward Zwick
Production: Columbia Pictures
  9 wins & 7 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.6
Metacritic:
77
Rotten Tomatoes:
85%
R
Year:
1996
116 min
708 Views


She sure as hell saved the lives

of those guys on the Blackhawk.

- You always defend her.

- Why didn't you like her?

She was so butch.

Honey, shut up.

She was, you know.

One of those women

who want to be officers...

Annie, shut up.

She gave her life for those men.

She was a soldier.

There she blows.

(gunfire)

- We're taking fire!

- Holy sh*t!

- Kill that motherf***er, Bonfires!

- I may as well be pissing on him.

- We need a f***ing air strike!

- We got no f***ing bomb!

- Making another pass, Ran?

- Yep.

No! We should go for altitude,

and call for support.

After we slow down that tank!

- How we gonna do that?

- Shut up and listen, soldier!

AItameyer,

unhook the aux fuel bladder port side.

Get ready to push it overboard.

Push it overboard, ma'am?

llario, unhook the flare gun!

What the f***...

Do it!

It's a bomb, a**hole!

Target coming up!

Gimme more!

Ready here!

- Got it?

- I got it!

- Tell us when you're there! Hell kick it!

- Allow for the speed of the craft!

- The pod will drop at the same velocity!

- He knows.

Pick your moment!

Now!

(cheering)

Oh, my God!

Oh!

Whoa! Sh*t!

Whoa! Oh, God!

Hang on, llario! Grab a hold of me!

Don't let go of me! Pull me in!

Hang on.

Come on, llario! Pull yourself up!

Do something!

No! No! Rady, call in a Mayday!

llario,... call it in!

(Ilario)

Mayday! Dustoff-3... we are going down!

Mayday! Mayday! This is Dustoff-3!

We're going down! Mayday! Mayday!

This is Dustoff-3!

We're going down! We're going down!

Mayday! Mayday! This is Dustoff-3!

We are going down!

Mayday! Mayday! This is Dustoff-3!

We're going down! We're going down!

We're going down! Oh, my God...

That's it.

I woke up three days later

on a hospital ship.

Nearly bought it, that's sure.

(Larry King) When did you decide

the type of career in the Army you wanted?

(Schwarzkopf) That happened about

my third year at WestPoint when l was...

l could have gone in the Air Force.

l stood high enough in my class.

You can't get away from that guy.

He's everywhere.

- Hell of a soldier, though.

- You think so?

I know so.

Really. How?

I was with him in the Gulf.

No sh*t.

- Doing what?

- Armoured cavalry.

Hu-ah.

Hu-ah.

Once upon a time,

I was humping in the delta.

- With who?

- The 9 th.

- You kicked some serious butt.

- That's right.

- One for my friend...

- Colonel Nat Serling.

Make it a double for Colonel Serling.

Tony Gartner, Washington Post.

They won't find any criminal culpability

in the AI Bathra incident.

You got nothing to worry about.

Those were my men.

I put that badly. I'm sorry.

Look, I went to Virginia

and spoke with Mr. and Mrs. Boylar.

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Patrick Sheane Duncan

Patrick Sheane Duncan (born 1947) is an American writer, film producer and director.A graduate of Grand Valley State University in Allendale Charter Township, Michigan, Duncan's career has been influenced by his Vietnam War experiences, which inspired the television mini-series Vietnam War Story (1987) and its sequel Vietnam War Story: The Last Days (1989) and the films 84C MoPic (1989) and Courage Under Fire (1996). Additional writing credits include A Home of Our Own (1993), The Pornographer (1994), Nick of Time (1995), Mr. Holland's Opus (1995), and the television movies A Painted House (2003), Elvis (2005), and the Little Red Wagon. more…

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