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- ’12 Strong’ is partially based on a true story. The film is adapted from Doug Stanton’s non-fiction book, ‘Horse Soldiers,’ and broadly follows the real-life story of twelve soldiers that went into Afghanistan soon after the 9/11 terror attacks to counter the Taliban.
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Jan 19, 2018 · This is the Harrowing, Real-Life Story Behind the Movie '12 Strong' By Elizabeth M. Collins. WASHINGTON – The movie “12 Strong” arrives in theaters on Jan. 19, and tells the harrowing story of the first U.S. Special Forces mission in Afghanistan following the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.
Jan 17, 2018 · The 12 Strong movie has Chris Hemsworth's character (Mark Nutsch in real life) being given the candy-bar-sized piece of metal by Colonel Mulholland. In Doug Stanton's book Horse Soldiers , it was Colonel Max Bowers, portrayed by Rob Riggle, who brought a piece of steel with him from the World Trade Center to Afghanistan.
12 Strong (also known as 12 Strong: The Declassified True Story of the Horse Soldiers) is a 2018 American action-war film directed by Nicolai Fuglsig and written by Ted Tally and Peter Craig. The film is based on Doug Stanton 's non-fiction book Horse Soldiers , which tells the story of U.S. Army Special Forces sent to Afghanistan immediately ...
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Jan 18, 2018 · The film by Jerry Bruckheimer, based on the book Horse Soldiers by Doug Stanton, was screened Sunday for a theater full of current and former members of that 12-man team and others in America’s...
In weaving a nuanced story that captures the spirit of both Khalid Hosseini’s poetic writings of Afghanistan in The Kite Runner and the intensity of Kathryn Bigelow’s Oscar-winning Iraqi pulse...
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Jan 27, 2018 · '12 Strong' review: Hemsworth leads a solid wartime film In the days and months following the Sept. 11 attacks, a small U.S. Special Forces unit led an offensive against the Taliban and Al...
Jan 27, 2018 · But that’s changing, with the release of a new Warner Bros. movie, “12 Strong,” that depicts the actions of the first Special Forces soldiers to enter Afghanistan in the weeks following the 9/11 attacks. Those soldiers were given a broad mission, to defeat the Taliban and render Afghanistan unsafe for terrorists.