Little Known Part of American History

Rating: Null/10 (18 June 2002)

This is fascinating story about Navajo Indians being trained as code talkers during WWII in the Pacific which used words from their traditional language.
The movie did a fine job of bringing this to attention and showing how they were instrumental in the victories of many of the battles. However, the film tends to place more focus on the violent battles and Nicholas Cage's character's anguish making the Navajo characters secondary.
This is still a finely made film but I wished that the treatment of the subject matter would have been different and less like the recent releases about war from Hollywood.