

The Lost Battalion (2001)
Children 16 or older admitted, nobody under this age admitted. May contain strong violence, sexual content, or coarse language.
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Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I.
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