Rescue Dawn

Key Battles of American History

History

4.7 • 861 Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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In this episode, Sean and James discuss the 2006 film Rescue Dawn, based on the true story of American pilot Dieter Dengler, who was shot down over Laos in 1966 and spent several months in a prison camp before escaping and returning to his unit. As always, your lovable hosts will tell you what the filmmakers got right and what they got wrong.

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0:00.0	War has played a key role in the history of the United States, from the nation's founding
0:10.7	right down to the present. War made the U.S. independent, kept it together, increased its
0:16.4	size, and established it as a global superpower. Understanding America's wars is essential for understanding American history.
0:24.0	Welcome to Key Battles of American History,
0:26.7	a podcast in which we discuss American history
0:28.9	through the lens of the most important battles of America's wars.
0:32.7	Here is your host, James Early.
0:43.4	Thank you. host, James Early. Hello and welcome to another new mini-series,
0:46.4	Key Films of the Vietnam War.
0:48.5	This is our first film review that Sean and I are going to do.
0:51.8	We're going to do about a dozen films or so, and I'm
0:56.4	really excited to kick this series off because Sean and I've been talking about this for a long
1:00.6	time and planning it. And the Vietnam War has some of the greatest movies ever made, not just
1:06.7	the greatest movies about war or about history, but at least four of the films we're going to do
1:13.7	in this series would probably make the top 100 all-time films list of any type. So we are excited.
1:21.2	Those four are going to come a little bit later, though. We are going to start with a 2006 movie
1:26.6	called Rescue Dawn.
1:28.6	It's a prisoner of war movie primarily, and it's one of the earlier movies chronologically.
1:33.2	It's actually not the earliest.
1:35.5	The events depicted in this film actually take place after the events depicted in the movie
1:41.1	We Were Soldiers that we're going to do next time.
1:43.9	But I wanted to go
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