Film

The Lost Battalion 2001

Directed by Russell Mulcahy

  • History, Drama, War, TV Movie
  • 92 min

Caught between two lines of fire, the Germans gave them two options: surrender or die. They chose a third.

Fact-based war drama about an American battalion of over 500 men which gets trapped behind enemy lines in the Argonne Forest in October 1918 France during the closing weeks of World War I.

HistoryDramaWarTV Moviearmyworld war ius armybased on true storycombatbattalion1910strench warfare

Log it

Sign in to log this.

Where do you stand?

Three questions people argue about. Answer first, then see how your circle and the community split.

  • Would The Lost Battalion hit harder if it came out today rather than in 2001?

    Sign in to answer

    Be the first to answer.

Ask the title a question

Answered from what people have written, never made up: a verdict, how much when it's a matter of degree, and the sentences that say so, quoted with their names. Reviews here first, then TMDB's reviews and the title's Wikipedia plot and reception. If nothing settles it, you can put it to the curators.

Character

Earnest, classical in form, grave and resolved.

  • earnestironic
  • classical in formformally daring
  • gravecomic
  • resolvedopen-ended
  • character-ledplot-driven

Who loves it, who doesn't

No profiled raters yet.