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The Thin Red Line

1998

During the brutal World War II battle for Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands, an American rifle company fights, suffers, and reflects on nature, mortality, and the meaning of it all. Terrence Malick's transcendent, philosophical war epic.

Why it’s here

Terrence Malick’s acclaimed American feature makes Guadalcanal’s landscape, combat, and moral disorientation its complete historical and physical world.

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Part of 3 Movies Set in or About Solomon Islands

This film is stop 1 of 3 in the hand-ranked outside-view route set in or about Solomon Islands. See the complete ranking or read the selection methodology.

This outside view can stamp Solomon Islands in the 196 country film challenge.