The Great War

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The Great War

"No man left behind"

2019

1h 48m

6.6(83 votes)

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In November of 1918 as World War I was ending, a unit of American soldiers goes behind enemy lines to find a lost platoon of African American soldiers.

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14 members

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Jordan McFadden

Mary

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Ron Perlman

General Pershing

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Trinity Schuetzle

Nurse

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Billy Zane

Colonel Jack Morrison

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Bates Wilder

Captain William Rivers

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Cody Fleury

O'Malley

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Edgar Damatian

Private Cardinni

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Aaron Courteau

Sergeant Allistor Richardson

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Andrew Stecker

Corporal Anson Kirby

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Judah McFadden

SGT. Smith

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Hiram A. Murray

Private John Cain

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Jeremy Michael Pereira

Captain A. J. Stevens

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Wade Everett

Captain Hooker

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Bill Cooper

Major Reddick

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