Windtalkers (2:14) 2002

Joe Enders (Nicholas Cage) returns to duty in Saipan after being injuried during a battle on the Solomon Islands. Enders has lost his platoon and suffered an hearing loss. His assignment in Saipan is not to fight the Japanese but to keep a code talker, Ben Yazhee, alive and out of the hands of the enemy. Yazhee (Adam Beach) is a Native American who speaks his native Navajo language. The US Army used Navajo speakers to send coded messages that could not be broken. The Navajo codes were never broken and used until they were declassified during the Vietnam War. The Native Americans code talkers have been credited with saving many American soldiers lives during WWII. The major criticism of this film is that Windtalkers is a vehicle for Nicholas Cage in an action war themed film. Windtalkers would have been a much better movie if the focus had been on the Native Americans and their stories with a greater focus on the training they undertook to become code talkers.