However, the message running through We Were Soldiers is too laboured and too sentimental.

BBC: Soldiers flies Stars and Stripes

We Were Soldiers is on general release in the UK from 8 March.

BBC: Soldiers flies Stars and Stripes

We Were Soldiers is a Vietnam War drama that stars Mel Gibson as the commander of an embattled U.S. Army battalion.

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And it will also boycott forthcoming DVD and video releases of the award-winning Mexican film Y Tu Mama Tambien and Mel Gibson's Vietnam epic We Were Soldiers.

BBC: Y Tu Mama Tambien

"We were firmly back inside China when the soldiers apprehended us, " they said.

BBC: US citizens held by North Korea

Eight Thai soldiers were lounging on the site when we arrived.

BBC: Piecing together puzzles in Cambodia

Mr Kim knew the commander here, and we were accompanied by a military escort of a half dozen soldiers up a winding jungle trail to the mountainside temple grounds.

BBC: Piecing together puzzles in Cambodia

At one polling station, we found a unit of Iraqi special forces - with noticeably better equipment than regular army soldiers - were in charge of security, searching everyone going in.

BBC: Peace and quiet mark Iraq polls