The film laid the real events that occurred during the Vietnam War. Lieutenant Colonel Harold Moore (Mel Gibson) teaches its soldiers to fight not only for their country, but for each other. Moore and his "right hand" Maj. Basil Plumley (Sam Elliott) train their soldiers so that they could pass through the hell of war. Complex military science of survival to learn all subordinate Moore, among them Lieutenant-idealist Dzhiodzhigan Jack (Chris Klein) and a daring helicopter pilot Maj. Bruce Crandall (Greg Kinnear). Lt. Col. Moore's wife Julie (Madeleine Stowe) becomes the leader of the wives of officers at the base, helping them to cope with the thoughts that their husbands will soon be face to face with all the horrors of war. When Moore gets the order to enter Vietnam, he knows that his people have to be difficult and dangerous situations. But he can not know that reaching the destination, its soldiers will be surrounded by superior numbers of their troops Vietnamese. November 14, 1965, more than four American soldiers were supposed to withstand the battle with the enemy army of two thousand. This was the first and perhaps the most brutal and bloody battles during the Vietnam War ...