Rescue Dawn

“A true story of survival... declassified.”

In the early days of the Vietnam War, a German-American pilot named Dieter Dengler (Christian Bale) is shot down over Laos and captured by villagers sympathetic to the Pathet Lao. Werner Herzog follows him into a prison camp where he meets Duane (Steve Zahn), a fellow prisoner worn thin by the waiting. Captivity here is a question of who will keep the will to live, and who will let it go.