John Rice

In this epic drama, a gung-ho Marine is assigned to protect a "windtalker," one of several Navajo Indians used to relay messages during World War II.

A powerful, true story about members of the Navajo tribe who proudly served the U.S. in WWII as code talkers by using their native language as a code to relay information to military leaders. Unbeknownst to the Navajo is the dark secret that they're to be killed by American soldiers if one of them is in danger of being captured.

In the brutal World War II Battle of Saipan, Sergeant Joe Enders (Cage) guards and ultimately befriends Ben Yahzee (Beach), a young Navajo trained in the one wartime code never broken by the enemy, the Navajo Code. But if Yahzee should fall into Japanese hands, how far will Enders go to save the military's most powerful secret?

In the brutal World War II Battle of Saipan, Sergeant Joe Enders (Cage) guards and ultimately befriends Ben Yahzee (Beach), a young Navajo trained in the one wartime code never broken by the enemy, the Navajo Code. But if Yahzee should fall into Japanese hands, how far will Enders go to save the military's most powerful secret?