This is an excellent film for many reasons. Firstly, it is an eye opener into how a tight long-term war is fought, including the incredible amounts of tactics and weaponry that need to be utilised and developed along the way. Secondly, this film gives us a vision of how wars, and those that fought them, were perceived 20 years ago. This was a time when war still created heroes, and the might of a superpower would not be brought into question too firmly, even by the media of an opposing country. On another level, it also shows the determination of a local people, to defy an invading army and to live in a land which they govern themselves.