The Thin Red Line, Terrence Malick, 1998
During the Pacific Theater of the Second World War, as the American army attempts to retake the island of Guadalcanal from the Japanese, a deserter living in a Melanesian village is found and returned to his company. The soldiers disembark without encountering resistance, but as they enter the interior regions of the island, they come under heavy fire from a heavily armed bunker on Hill 210…