Windtalkers

About Windtalkers

Joe Enders is a gung-ho Marine assigned to protect a "windtalker" - one of several Navajo Indians who were used to relay messages during World War II because their spoken language was indecipherable to Japanese code breakers.

John Woo's Windtalkers is a 2002 war film. Released in June 2002, it runs 134 minutes.

The film is filed under native american, US army, pacific war, and marine corps. It is adapted from real events.

Nicolas Cage stars as Sergeant Joe Enders, Adam Beach as Private Ben Yahzee, Peter Stormare as Sergeant Eric Hjelmstad, and Noah Emmerich as Corporal Charles Rogers. The screenplay is by Joe Batteer and John Rice. It streams on Amazon Prime Video and Amazon Prime Video with Ads in the United States.

Hacksaw Ridge, Unbroken, and Flags of Our Fathers make useful companions to Windtalkers, all filed under japan, war hero, and world war ii. TMDB voters put it at 6.4 out of 10 across 1,476 votes and it carries a R rating.