John Moore · 2001 · survival

John Moore's 2001 war thriller, loosely drawn from a real 1995 shoot-down. Flying a reconnaissance run over Bosnia, navigator Chris Burnett photographs a mass grave he was never meant to see and is blasted out of the sky. Alone behind Serb lines, hunted across the winter countryside by a relentless tracker, he runs from crash site to extraction point while his admiral fights to launch a rescue.

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   The crash site

   Shot down over the demilitarized zone after photographing what he shouldn't, Lieutenant Burnett ejects into hostile Bosnian hills, his navigator killed, a Serb tracker already reading his trail in the snow.

2. 2
   The mass grave

   Fleeing the patrol, Burnett tumbles into the mass grave his cameras had caught - proof of a massacre - and hides among the dead until the soldiers pass, the evidence now the reason he must not be taken alive.

3. 3
   Hac

   Bosniak fighters give him a lift toward Hac, a supposed safe haven that turns out to be an active battlefield; in the chaos he swaps clothes with a dead soldier and slips away, presumed killed.

4. 4
   The extraction point

   With his rescue called off and reinstated by a leaked news story, Burnett crosses a minefield to the final pickup zone, where his admiral's renegade helicopters at last come in low to lift him out.