Broken arrow: John Travolta, Christian Slater, Samantha Mathis. Men of honor: Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding, Jr., Hal Holbrook, David Keith, Michael Rapaport, Powers Boothe, Aunjanue Ellis, Charlize Theron. Men of honor: Based on the life of Carl Brashear. Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000 (Men of honor) and 1996 (Broken arrow).
Summary:
Men of honor: Born In 1931 to sharecropper parents, Carl Brashear decides to join the Navy. After watching the heroics of Billy Sunday, the White son of a sharecropper, Carl determines to become the Navy's first African-American diver. At the Bayonne, N.J., divers' training camp, Sunday is his instructor, and Brashear must endure hazing that verges on murderous. With Sunday and the camp's commander dead set against Brashear's graduating, he will have to use his physical prowess and steely determination to see him through. Carl and Billy's paths cross again when each needs rehabilitation - one from an injury, the other from bitterness. Broken arrow: Two military pilots engage in a no-holds-barred battle against time and each other in a race to recover two stolen nuclear warheads.
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