The Big Red One

The Big Red One

1980 · Movie · 1h 53m · PG

DramaWar

"The real glory of war is surviving"

Overview

A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.

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IMDb
7.1/10
Rotten Tomatoes
88%
Metacritic
77/100
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sicily, italyafricaconcentration campworld war iiomaha beachinfantryus armyd-daysergeanthospitalanti war