The Lost Battalion

IMDb link: 0287535
IMDb rating: 7 (8,812 votes)
Genres: Action, Drama, War
Director: Russell Mulcahy, Ricky Schroder
Cast: Phil McKee, Jamie Harris, Jay Rodan and others

Release date: 2 Dec 2001
Release year: 2001
Runtime: 92 minutes
Country: Luxembourg, United States
Keywords: world war one battle, year 1918, u.s. soldier, western front, american abroad, u.s. military, u.s. army, trench warfare, pigeon, world war one

Plot:

In 1918 in World War I, in the Meuse-Argonne Sector in France, the former New York lawyer and Major Charles White Whittlesey is assigned by Gen. Robert Alexander to a massive suicidal attack against the German forces in the Argonne Forest with his five-hundred-man battalion. However, the forces supposed to be giving support through the flanks retreat and the communications with the headquarter of the 77th American Division are cut. Major Wittlesey holds his position with his men, mostly Irish, Polish, Italian and Jewish immigrants from New York, surrounded by the German army. Without food, water, ammunition and medical supplies, only two hundred men survive after five days of siege.

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