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Windtalkers

[2002, Movie]

Windtalkers: Review

Telling it to the Marines: Adam Beach and Nicolas Cage

Whatever its faults — and there are a number of them — John Woo's spectacularly violent war movie sheds some light on the crucial contribution Navajo-Americans made to the WWII effort. The year is 1943, and in a remote part of Arizona, a young Native American man boards a bus for Camp Pendleton, Calif. His name is Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach), and he's one of several hundred Navajo men recruited by the Marine Corps to serve as "codetalkers," radio operators trained to re... read more

Windtalkers: TV Guide News

TV Guide Interviews & Features | 6/18/2002
Now, here's one of the oddest rumors we've heard lately: Is John Woo — who directed Christian Slater in 1996's Broke read more
Today's News: My Take | 6/17/2002
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TV Guide Interviews & Features | 6/17/2002
Before playing a Navajo code expert in John Woo's Windtalkers, actor Adam Beach struggled through his share of stereotyp read more
TV Guide Interviews & Features | 6/14/2002
Take heart, Winona Ryder! After a career lull and some run-ins with the law, your fellow Heathers hellion Christian Slat read more
FlickChick | 4/18/2002
Question: Whatever happened to the Nicolas Cage film Windwalker or Windtalker? It was about Native Americans and how the read more