Behind Enemy Lines is a 2001 thriller/war film, directed by John Moore, and starring Gene Hackman and Owen Wilson. Its fictional plot is centered on the story of uncovering a massacre in the Bosnian War of 1992–1995 by an American naval aviator.
USN Rear Admiral Leslie Riegart's (Gene Hackman) carrier battle group is in the final stages of a NATO peacekeeping deployment, when Naval Aviator Lieutenant Jeremy Stackhouse (Gabriel Macht) and Naval Fl...
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Behind Enemy Lines is a 2001 thriller/war film, directed by John Moore, and starring Gene Hackman and Owen Wilson. Its fictional plot is centered on the story of uncovering a massacre in the Bosnian War of 1992–1995 by an American naval aviator.
USN Rear Admiral Leslie Riegart's (Gene Hackman) carrier battle group is in the final stages of a NATO peacekeeping deployment, when Naval Aviator Lieutenant Jeremy Stackhouse (Gabriel Macht) and Naval Flight Officer Lieutenant Chris Burnett (Owen Wilson) decide to take their F/A-18F Super Hornet (launched from the aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson), stationed somewhere in the Adriatic Sea, off course to check out a suspicious target. Their plane is shot down by a SA-13 SAM controlled by Serbian forces led by General Miroslav Lokar (Olek Krupa) and his second in command Colonel Viktor Bazda (Marko Igonda). Lokar is committing a secret genocidal campaign against the Bosniak people in a no-fly zone that the NATO plane violates and photographs....
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