4.9 Score

2002 • 2h 14min • R • Action, War

Windtalkers

"Honor Was Their Code."

Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.

IMDb 6.1

RT 33%

MC 51

Director

John Woo

Writers

John Rice

Joe Batteer

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Nicolas Cage

Sergeant Joe Enders

Adam Beach

Private Ben Yahzee

Peter Stormare

Sergeant Eric Hjelmstad

Noah Emmerich

Corporal Charles Rogers

Mark Ruffalo

Pappas

Brian Van Holt

Harrigan

Martin Henderson

Private Nellie

Roger Willie

Charlie Whitehorse

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