Hart's War Poster

Hart's War (2002)

R 02/15/2002 Drama, War 2h 5m
64%
User
Score
6.3/10
60%
49/100

Beyond courage, beyond honor.

Overview

When Col. William McNamara is stripped of his freedom in a German POW camp, he's determined to keep on fighting even from behind enemy lines. Enlisting the help of a young lieutenant in a brilliant plot against his captors, McNamara risks everything on a mission to free his men and change the outcome of the war.

Gregory Hoblit

Director

Top Billed Cast

Colin Farrell

Colin Farrell

Lt. Thomas W. Hart

Bruce Willis

Bruce Willis

Col. William A. McNamara

Terrence Howard

Terrence Howard

Lt. Lincoln A. Scott

Marcel Iureș

Marcel Iureș

Col. Werner Visser

Cole Hauser

Cole Hauser

Staff Sgt. Vic W. Bedford

Linus Roache

Linus Roache

Capt. Peter A. Ross

Vicellous Shannon

Vicellous Shannon

Lt. Lamar T. Archer

Rory Cochrane

Rory Cochrane

Sgt. Carl S. Webb

Joe Spano

Joe Spano

Col. J.M. Lange

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Media

Lieutenant Scott's Speech

Lieutenant Scott's Speech

Sharing Bread With The Prisoners

Sharing Bread With The Prisoners

P-51's Attack The Camp

P-51's Attack The Camp

Official Trailer

Official Trailer

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Reviews

A review by Wuchak

Written on May 31, 2018

Like Hogan's Heroes but serious and quasi-realistic

RELEASED IN 2002 and directed by Gregory Hoblit, "Hart's War" is a war flick about a paper-pushing lieutenant with a background in law (Colin Farrell) who is unexpectedly captured in Belgium and taken to a POW camp in southern Germany in the closing months of the European theater of the war. He eventually befriends and defends a Tuskegee Airmen (Terrence Howard). Marcel Iures plays the humane German commandant while Bruce Willis plays the tough-as-nails American colonel of the POWs. Cole Hauser is on hand as a racist soldier.

This is obviously not a conventional WWII flick. Although it starts out with some great war action, it has more in common with films like "Stalag 17" (1953) and "The Great Escape" (1963), albeit with modern fi...

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