The Big Red One (1980)

Only chance could have thrown them together. Now, nothing can pull them apart.

• Drama
• War

A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.

Rating

6.7 / 10 (360 votes)

Release date

May 28, 1980

Runtime

2h 42m

Language

English

Director

Samuel Fuller

Status

Released