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17/11/1998

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Drama. An army officer accompanies the body of a war hero to his home in the Deep South.

Drama about an army officer's struggle to secure the burial of a black Vietnam War hero in a traditionally all-white Georgia cemetery. Starring John Lithgow.

Emmy-nominated drama about an army officer, Major Kendall Laird, who is assigned to investigate the mysterious death of a black Vietnam War hero, and to accompany his body home to the Deep South of the 1970s.

Laird's attempts to secure the soldier's burial in a traditionally all-white cemetery run into military bureaucracy, racial prejudice and apathy among the Georgia townsfolk.

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