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A veteran soldier returns from his completed tour of duty in Iraq, only to find his life turned upside down when he is arbitrarily ordered to return to field duty by the Army.


“The final test of courage is coming home.”
The day after they get the word they'll go home in two weeks, a group of soldiers from Spokane are ambushed in an Iraqi city. Back stateside we follow four of them - a surgeon who saw too much, a teacher who's a single mom and who lost a hand in the ambush, an infantry man whose best friend died that day, and a soldier who keeps reliving the moment he killed a civilian woman.

Samuel L. Jackson
William Marsh

Jessica Biel
Vanessa Price

Christina Ricci
Sarah Schivino

Victoria Rowell
Penelope Marsh

50 Cent
Jamal Aiken

Sam Jones
Billy Marsh

Chad Michael Murray
Jordan Owens

Jeffrey Nordling
Cary

Brian Presley
Tommy Yates

Vyto Ruginis
Hank Yates
Home of the Brave is a war, drama film released in 2006 exploring themes of post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), iraq war veteran, u.s. soldier. Directed by Irwin Winkler, it stars Samuel L. Jackson, Jessica Biel, Christina Ricci. The day after they get the word they'll go home in two weeks, a group of soldiers from Spokane are ambushed in an Iraqi city. Back stateside we follow four of them - a surgeon who saw too much, a teacher who's a single mom and who lost a hand in the ambush, an infantry man whose best friend died that day, and a soldier who keeps reliving the moment he killed a civilian woman.
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