4 real historical locations · Germany
A 1998 HBO film about a sole survivor of a battle in the Hurtgen Forest who is promoted against his will and forced back into combat. A bleak study of a man for whom survival instinct directly conflicts with military duty — and heroism means something entirely different.
CinemaMapped has mapped 4 real historical locations where the story takes place, spanning Germany.
The Battle of Hürtgen Forest — one of the US Army's costliest and least-remembered campaigns — as a soldier who survived through cowardice is promoted to ser...
The Hürtgen Forest campaign (September 1944 – February 1945) cost the US Army 33,000 casualties for minimal strategic gain. The dense forest negated American firepower advantages and armour, resulting in brutal close-...
View location →The dense fir forest where reluctant hero Private Manning survives wave after wave of futile assaults. The forest turns infantry tactics meaningless as tree ...
The Battle of Hurtgen Forest (September 1944 – February 1945) cost the US Army 33,000 casualties for minimal strategic gain. It is considered one of America's worst-managed battles.
View location →The village of Schmidt becomes the obsessive tactical objective costing thousands of American lives. Manning watches platoon after platoon fed into the meat ...
Schmidt fell to the US on 2 November 1944 and was retaken by Germany on 4 November. A second US assault captured it permanently in February 1945, months of carnage for a single village.
View location →The staging area for the Hurtgen campaign. Aachen has just fallen in the first capture of a major German city, and new replacements like Manning are fed dire...
Aachen fell to US forces on 21 October 1944 after vicious street fighting. It was the first German city captured by the Allies. Hurtgen began as a flanking operation to protect Aachen's south.
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