The Outpost is a 2020 American war film directed by Rod Lurie, based on the 2012 non-fiction book The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor by Jake Tapper. It stars Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones, Orlando Bloom, Jack Kesy, Cory Hardrict, Milo Gibson, Jacob Scipio, and Taylor John Smith. The film was scheduled to premiere at the 2020 South by Southwest Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Outpost is a 2020 American war film directed by Rod Lurie, based on the 2012 non-fiction book The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor by Jake Tapper. It stars Scott Eastwood, Caleb Landry Jones, Orlando Bloom, Jack Kesy, Cory Hardrict, Milo Gibson, Jacob Scipio, and Taylor John Smith. The film was scheduled to premiere at the 2020 South by Southwest Film Festival, but the festival was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic. It was released via Premium VOD and in selected theaters on July 3, 2020. It tells the story of the 53 U.S. soldiers and two Latvian military advisors who battled some 400 enemy insurgents at the Battle of Kamdesh in Afghanistan in 2006. It received generally positive reviews from critics, with praise for the battle sequences and respectful depiction of the soldiers. The base was regarded as a deathtrap; the troops stationed there faced regular Taliban attacks, culminating in one of the bloodiest American engagements of Operation Enduring Freedom. In 2009, the base was one of several U. S. Army outposts established in Northern Afghanistan.
It is located in a remote valley surrounded by the Hindu Kush mountains, and is known as the “Deathtrap” The base’s Afghan interpreter, Mohammed, warns of an impending large-scale attack, but his fears are dismissed by the base’s commanding officer, CPT Keating, who is killed in a firefight with the Taliban. In October 2009, Mohammed alerts the base that the villagers are gone and that hundreds of Taliban fighters have surrounded the base. On the morning of October 3rd, 2009, shortly after the aid station has been surrounded, the Taliban attack the base, sending the Afghan National Army forces fleeing. The team is pinned down inside the humvee and is denied use of the mortars. CPT Broward reveals he has been relieved of command and the base will officially close in October, leaving Bundermann in charge of the base until the men return in July. The next day, elders arrive with the body of a girl they fraudulently claim was killed by the American counterattack; Broward agrees to compensate them.
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