Uncommon Valor

Uncommon Valor (1983) is a war action drama directed by Ted Kotcheff — watch online on iFILM. Colonel Rhodes has spent a decade hitting dead ends with Washington: his son went missing in Laos during the war and nobody in government wants to look again.

So Rhodes, played by Gene Hackman, stops asking. He recruits a handful of former soldiers — including a young Patrick Swayze and Fred Ward — funds their training out of pocket, and plans a private raid into enemy territory. No official backing. No extraction plan. Just a group of men who refused to leave one of their own behind. Released in 1983, the film was among the earliest Hollywood features to put the POW/MIA story at its center, years before the subject became a genre staple. Watch Uncommon Valor online on iFILM.