Terrence Malick	...	(Réalisateur)
James Jones, Terrence Malick	...	(Scénariste)
Nick Nolte	...	Lt. Col. Gordon Tall
James Caviezel	...	Pvt. Witt (as Jim Caviezel)
Sean Penn	...	1st Sgt. Edward Welsh
Elias Koteas	...	Capt. James 'Bugger' Staros
Ben Chaplin	...	Pvt. Bell
Dash Mihok	...	Pfc. Doll
John Cusack	...	Capt. John Gaff
Adrien Brody	...	Cpl. Fife
John C. Reilly	...	Sgt. Storm
Woody Harrelson	...	Sgt. Keck
Miranda Otto	...	Marty Bell
Jared Leto	...	2nd Lt. Whyte
John Travolta	...	Brig. Gen. Quintard
George Clooney	...	Capt. Charles Bosche
Nick Stahl	...	Pfc - Beade

Résumé: In World War II, the outcome of the battle of Guadalcanal will strongly influence the Japanese's advance into the pacific. A group of young soldiers is brought in as a relief for the battle-weary Marine units. The exhausting fight for a key-positioned airfield that allows control over a 1000-mile radius puts the men of the Army Rifle company C-for-Charlie through hell. The horrors of war forms the soldiers into a tight-knit group, their emotions develop into bonds of love and even family. The reasons for this war get further away as the world for the men gets smaller and smaller until their fighting is for mere survival and the life of the other men with them.