- No Iraqi in the film is named, given a line, or given a motive. Iraqi forces appear only as combatants in the battle scenes, tanks and figures firing from cover, destroyed in each engagement, while the film's argument about truth and honor runs entirely among the American characters.
Courage Under Fire (1996)
film · 1996 film directed by Edward Zwick
- Director
- Edward Zwick
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Distributors
- 20th Century Studios, Netflix, Disney+
- Runtime
- 116 min
- Genres
- war film, drama film, flashback film, action film
- Cast
- Denzel Washington, Meg Ryan, Lou Diamond Phillips, Matt Damon