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Windtalkers
2002 · Film · 134 min
Directed by John Woo
Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.
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It's too bad there were never any good movies made about the code-talkers. There was one movie by John Woo, starring Nicholas Cage, named "Windtalkers", but it was terrible; coincidentally, I was just reading an article this morning about the "worst war movies of the last 25 years" and Windtalkers was on it, alongside "Jarhead 2" and others.
Windtalkers surprisingly good movie btw. For Nicholas Cage anyway.
India in WW2 is...complicated.
(Unless you meant the Native American contribution to the US WW2 effort -- the code talkers got a lot of the coverage there, especially since the Windtalkers movie)