The Lost Battalion

The Lost Battalion

6.7IMDb Score
Released:2001-12-02
Duration:92 min
Director:Russell Mulcahy
Actors:Rick Schroder, Phil McKee, Jamie Harris, Jay Rodan, Adam James
Production:David Gerber Productions, 20th Century Fox Television, A+E Global Media

Overview:

Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I.

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