FIGHT OR DIE PREMIERING ON JUNE 26th AT 10PM ON DISCOVERY CHANNEL
From Executive Producer Randall Wallace (BRAVEHEART, PEARL HARBOR,
WE WERE SOLDIERS, THE MAN IN THE IRON MASK), comes FiGHT OR DIE, an
exciting new epic documentary special that captures the personal
experience of war in groundbreaking fashion by delving inside the
psyche of the soldier under fire, allowing viewers to walk the Thin
Red Line that separates sanity from madness and the living from the
dead. Harrowing personal accounts of battle are seamlessly blended
with cinematic dramatizations, digitally remastered combat footage,
and a bullet-ridden soundscape to present one of the most riveting,
emotional, and realistic portrayals of war ever produced for
television. "We all have the capacity for depths of courage,
compassion and even cruelty that we can't imagine when sitting in
safety and comfort,Ó said Wallace. ÒFIGHT OR DIE explores these
extremes of human character made apparent in the cauldron of conflict."
The first episode tells the real-life story of a group of American
soldiers whose lives were made famous in WallaceÕs motion picture WE
WERE SOLDIERS starring Mel Gibson. On November 14, 1965 in the Ia
Drang Valley of Vietnam, in a small clearing called Landing Zone X-
Ray, 2,000 enemy soldiers surrounded 400 United States Army troopers.
The ensuing battle was one of the most savage in U.S. history. FIGHT
OR DIE is a tribute to the nobility of those men under fire, their
common acts of uncommon valor, and their loyalty to and love for one
another.