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) Metropolitan Filmexport (France) Icon Productions (Overseas) |
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Running time | 138 minutes |
| Countries | United States Germany France |
| Languages | English Vietnamese French |
| Budget | $70–75 million |
| Box office | $115.4 million |
We Were Soldiers is a 2002 American war film co-produced, written and directed by Randall Wallace and starring Mel Gibson (both of whom previously worked together on Braveheart), Madeleine Stowe, Greg Kinnear, Sam Elliott, Chris Klein, Keri Russell, Barry Pepper, Ryan Hurst, Marc Blucas, Clark Gregg, and Jon Hamm. The film is based on the 1992 book We Were Soldiers Once… and Young by Lieutenant General (Ret.) Hal Moore and reporter Joseph L. Galloway, dramatizing the Battle of Ia Drang on November 14, 1965.