Popcorn and Inspiration: ‘Courage Under Fire’: Standing Guard Over Truth

1996 | R | 1h 56min

If a movie shows a military funeral featuring the “missing-man formation”—that fighter-jet fly-by where one out of the four warplanes pulls vertical and disappears into the clouds—I’m a mess. If the movie ends with a scene in Arlington Cemetery, with its rows of white gravestones as far as the eye can see, accompanied by “Braveheart” type strains or militaristic bugles and drums, I’m immediately destroyed. “Courage Under Fire” has both.