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Windtalkers (2002)

★ 6.3 · 1,403 ratings on TMDB

Honor Was Their Code.

Windtalkers poster★ 6.3

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.

DirectorJohn Woo
CastAdam Beach, Brian Van Holt, Christian Slater, Frances O'Connor, Mark Ruffalo, Martin Henderson
GenresAction, War
The emergence reading

Windtalkers keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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