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Adventure, Drama, War. Based on the play Nənawā́te. 1988 United States Rambo III: Peter MacDonald: Action, Adventure, Thriller. 1989 Soviet Union Cargo 300: Груз 300: Georgiy Kuznetsov: Drama, War. 1989 Italy United States Afganistan - The Last War Bus: L'ultimo bus di guerra: Pierluigi Ciriaci: Action, War. 1989 Soviet Union Scorched by ...
The 9th Company. The 9th Company ( Russian: 9 рота, romanized : 9 rota) is a 2005 Russian war film directed by Fedor Bondarchuk and set during the Soviet–Afghan War. The film is loosely based on a real-life battle that took place at Hill 3234 in early 1988, during Operation Magistral, the last large-scale Soviet military operation in ...
S. List of Soviet–Afghan War films. Categories: Films set in the 1970s. Films set in the 1980s. Films by war. Cold War films. Films set in Afghanistan. Films about jihadism.
Box office. $161,004. The Beast (also known as The Beast of War) is a 1988 American war film directed by Kevin Reynolds and written by William Mastrosimone, based on his play Nənawā́te. The film follows the crew of a Soviet T-55 tank who became lost during the Soviet war in Afghanistan. The film has enjoyed a cult-favorite status in spite of ...
Budget. $75 million. Box office. $119.5 million [ 1] Charlie Wilson's War is a 2007 American biographical comedy-drama film based on the story of U.S. Congressman Charlie Wilson and CIA operative Gust Avrakotos, whose efforts led to Operation Cyclone, a program to organize and support the Afghan mujahideen during the Soviet–Afghan War (1979 ...
The Soviet–Afghan War was a protracted armed conflict fought in the Soviet-controlled Democratic Republic of Afghanistan (DRA) from 1979 to 1989. The war was a major conflict of the Cold War as it saw extensive fighting between Soviet Union, the DRA and allied paramilitary groups against the Afghan mujahideen and their allied foreign fighters.
The movie is still regarded by many movie critics as the best account of the war, despite newer box-office hits such as The 9th Company. [2] Director Vladimir Bortko invited Mikhail Leshchinskiy (a Soviet TV war reporter who worked in Afghanistan for 4.5 years) as a co-writer and visited Kabul and Kandahar in 1988 to research on the ground. [3]
Afghanistan. 3 wounded. 200 killed. The Battle for Hill 3234 ( Russian: Бой у высоты 3234, romanized : Boy u vysoty 3234) was a successful defensive battle fought by the 9th Company of the 345th Independent Guards Airborne Regiment, Soviet Airborne Troops, part of Operation Magistral, supported by the Afghan Army ’s 15th Tank ...