The Last Full Measure
(2020)
★ 7.3 IMDb · 511 votes
Year: 2020
Runtime: 110 мин
Country: United States of America
Director: Todd Robinson
Cast: Себастиан Стэн, Кристофер Пламмер, Уильям Хёрт, Эд Харрис, Зак Рериг, Сэмюэл Л. Джексон, Джереми Ирвин, Питер Фонда, Брэдли Уитфорд, Alison Sudol
Plot
The incredible true story of Vietnam War hero William H. Pitsenbarger, a U.S. Air Force Pararescuemen medic who personally saved over sixty men. Thirty-two years later, Pentagon staffer Scott Huffman investigates a Congressional Medal of Honor request for Pitsenbarger and uncovers a high-level conspiracy behind the decades-long denial of the medal, prompting Huffman to put his own career on the line to seek justice for the fallen airman.
In 1999 an up-and-coming political staffer at the Department of Defence, Scott Huffman, is given the job of investigating a request to upgrade an award to the Medal of Honour. After conspicuous acts of gallantry Airman William H Pitsenbarger was killed in Vietnam in 1966. He was recommended for the MoH but his award was downgraded to the Air Force Cross. For over 30 years his comrades and family have been lobbying for him to receive the medal. Huffman cares more about his own career than this case but the more he looks into it, the more convinced he is that Pitsenbarger deserves the MoH and should have received it in 1966. Why didn't he then?