Red Dawn - Wikipedia
The film depicts a fictional World War III centering on a military invasion of the United States by an alliance of Soviet, Warsaw Pact, and Communist Latin American states. The story follows a group of teenage guerrillas, known as the Wolverines, in Soviet-occupied Colorado.
Red Dawn (1984) - IMDb
Red Dawn: Directed by John Milius. With Patrick Swayze, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson, Charlie Sheen. It is the dawn of World War III. In the west mountains of America, a group of teenagers band together to defend their town, and their country, from invading Soviet forces.
Red Dawn is a misunderstood masterpiece - Washington Examiner
Sep 6, 2024 · If ever a film has been ripe for rediscovery and reevaluation, it is Red Dawn, John Milius’s 1984 movie about a group of Colorado children who become guerilla resistance fighters during a...
Red Dawn (1984): The Settler Colonial Paranoia of John Milius
Dec 15, 2016 · Red Dawn, in other words, is an elaborate exercise of settler colonial guilt and paranoia, a projection of the crimes that white Europeans committed against the indigenous North American population onto a fictional invasion by the Soviet Union.
Red Dawn (1984) - Plot - IMDb
Armed only with hunting rifles, pistols, and bows and arrows, the teens struggle to survive the bitter winter and the Soviet K.G.B. patrols hunting for them. Eventually, trouble arises when they kill a group of Soviet soldiers on patrol in the highlands.
What the cult classic ‘Red Dawn’ teaches us about insurgent warfare
Jun 29, 2022 · In Red Dawn, our heroes are drawn into battle after they are forced to kill three Soviet soldiers who discover their hiding place in the mountains.
Red Dawn (1984) — an unfairly maligned Cold War classic
Aug 8, 2024 · Red Dawn plunges audiences without a preamble into a Cold War nightmare scenario. In the opening moments, a high school class in a small Colorado town is unceremoniously interrupted by an axis...
Red Dawn (1984) - Alpha History
Red Dawn depicts an invasion of the United States by a joint Soviet-Cuban military force. The film provides no political context or clear reasons for this invasion. Some preliminary titles explain that the US has been weakened militarily by the breakup of NATO.
Why 1984's 'Red Dawn' Still Matters - TIME
Aug 9, 2024 · In portraying the U.S. as an innocent victim of an unprovoked communist invasion and occupation of North America, Red Dawn fundamentally inverted the historical reality of U.S. Cold War foreign...
Red Dawn (1984) (Film) - TV Tropes
Set in a world where communist revolutions and civil unrest have swept most of the USA's allies, the film opens on six high school students in a rural Colorado town whose school day is interrupted by what they soon realize are Soviet and Cuban paratroopers landing nearby.