Courage Under Fire

Courage Under Fire is a 1996 American war drama film directed by Edward Zwick and starring Denzel Washington and Meg Ryan. The movie follows the story of Lieutenant Colonel Nathaniel Serling (Washington), a US Army officer who accidentally destroys one of his own tanks during a confusing nighttime battle in the Persian Gulf War, killing his friend, Captain Boylar. The army covers up the details and transfers Serling to a desk job. Later, Serling is assigned to determine if Captain Karen Emma Walden (Ryan) should be the first woman to receive (posthumously) the Medal of Honor. She was the commander of a Medevac Huey helicopter sent to rescue the crew of a shot-down Black Hawk helicopter. When Walden encountered an enemy tank, her crew destroyed it by dropping a fuel bladder onto the tank and igniting it with a flare gun. However, her own helicopter was shot down soon after. The two crews were unable to join forces, and when the survivors were rescued, Walden's body was left behind. As Serling investigates Walden's story, he uncovers inconsistencies in the testimonies of the witnesses and begins to suspect that there is more to her heroism than meets the eye. He becomes drawn into her story and finds himself in danger as he uncovers a conspiracy that threatens to reveal an uncomfortable truth about war heroism and sacrifices made by soldiers during wartime military operations gone wrong due negligence at command level on both sides giving way for convenient sacrifices from our central character especially when all seems lost while facing death but refuses giving up once all hope appears lost much like how these brave men & women gave their last full measure devotion when they lost their lives fighting under extreme conditions without proper top cover yet still pushed through showing incredible courage till their very end inspiring us all today throughout history!

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Some movies that have similar genres and were produced around the same time as Courage Under Fire include Apocalypse Now: Redux, All the King's Men, Enemy at the Gates, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Legends of the Fall.

Courage Under Fire was released in theaters on July 4, 1996.