
An American Ambassador is killed during an attack at a U.S. compound in Libya as a security team struggles to make sense out of the chaos.


“The declassified true story of the horse soldiers”
A team of special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.

Chris Hemsworth
Mitch Nelson

Michael Shannon
Hal Spencer

Michael Peña
Sam Diller

Navid Negahban
General Dostum

Trevante Rhodes
Ben Milo

Geoff Stults
Sean Coffers

Thad Luckinbill
Vern Michaels

Austin Stowell
Fred Falls

Ben O'Toole
Scott Black

Jack Kesy
Charles Jones
12 Strong is a war, drama, action, history film released in 2018 exploring themes of central intelligence agency (cia), based on novel or book, afghanistan, based on true story, taliban, post 9/11. Directed by Nicolai Fuglsig, it stars Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Peña. A team of special forces head into Afghanistan in the aftermath of the September 11th attacks in an attempt to dismantle the Taliban.
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