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Behind Enemy Lines is a 2001 film starring Gene Hackman and Owen Wilson.

Tagline: In war there are some lines you should never cross.

The film is centred around a massacre in the Bosnian war of 1992-1995. Admiral Leslie Reigart's (Hackman) carrier battle group is in the final stages of a NATO peace keeping deployment when the F/A-18F Super Hornet of Chris Burnett (Wilson) and his pilot is shot down by renegade Serbian forces.

The resulting attempts to rescue the downed aviator are complicated by political considerations which are enforced on Reigart by his NATO commanding officer Admiral Piquet (Joaquim de Almeida.)

In Bosnia, the lone U.S. pilot attempts to evade Serbian troops and a hired Serb sniper (Vladimir Mashkov). After dodging Serb special forces, mine fields, and tanks, he manages to contact the carrier. After retrieving photographic evidence of the massacres, he is rescued in a dramatic helicopter rescue mission.

The movie is loosely inspired by the experiences of former United States Air Force captain Scott O'Grady, who was shot down on June 2, 1995 over Bosnia. He managed to survive for six days before being rescued.

The film, released by News Corporation company 20th Century Fox, features fictional news reports from Sky News (another News Corp asset.)

The primary actors are not Serbs, and the producers said that they hired Croats to instruct them in the Serbo-Croatian language.

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