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Tigerland (2000)

★ 6.6 · 613 ratings on TMDB

The system wanted them to become soldiers. One soldier just wanted to be human.

Tigerland poster★ 6.6

A group of recruits go through Advanced Infantry Training at Fort Polk, Louisiana's infamous Tigerland, last stop before Vietnam for tens of thousands of young men in 1971.

DirectorJoel Schumacher
CastClifton Collins Jr., Cole Hauser, Colin Farrell, James MacDonald, Matt Gerald, Matthew Davis
GenresDrama, War
The emergence reading

Tigerland keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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