12 Strong is a 2018 American war film directed by Nicolai Fuglsig and written by Ted Tally and Peter Craig. The film stars Chris Hemsworth, Michael Shannon, Michael Peña, Trevante Rhodes, Geoff Stults, Thad Luckinbill, Austin Stowell, Ben O’Toole, and Elsa Pataky. The film is about the 12th Special Forces Group (Airborne) who are sent to Afghanistan immediately after the September 11 attacks in 2001.

On September 11, 2001, the world watched in terror as terrorists flew planes into the World Trade Center in New York City and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C. In the aftermath of the attacks, the …