Tunnel Rats
β 4.9 Β· 2008 Β· 96m Β· Action Β· Drama Β· War
During the Vietnam War [1959-1975] a special US combat unit is sent out to hunt and kill the Viet Cong soldiers in a man-to-man combat in the endless tunnels underneath the jungle of Vietnam. Suicide squads of a special kind.
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