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Behind Enemy Lines (2001 film)

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Behind Enemy Lines is a 2001 film starring Gene Hackman and Owen Wilson.

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The film is centred around the Srebrenica Massacre. Admiral Leslie Reigart's (Hackman) carrier battle group is in the final stages of a NATO peace keeping deployment when the F/A-18F Super Hornet of Chris Burnett (Wilson) and his pilot is shot down by renegade Serbian forces.

The resulting attempts to rescue the downed aviator are complicated by political considerations which are enforced on Reigart by his NATO commanding officer Admiral Piquet (Joaquim de Almeida.)

The film, released by News Corporation company 20th Century Fox, features fictonal news reports from Sky News (another News Corp asset.)

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