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"The Navajo has the code. Protect the code at all costs. "

In World War II, the Japanese were continually able to break encrypted military transmissions, dramatically slowing U. S. progress. Finally, in 1942, several hundred Navajo Americans were recruited as Marines and trained to use a secret military code based on their native language. These Marines were called code talkers. Their code was ultimately the only one never broken by the Japanese and is considered to have been key in winning the war.

In Windtalkers, during the Battle of Saipan, Marines Joe Enders (Nicolas Cage) and Ox Anderson (Christian Slater) are assigned to protect code talkers Ben Yahzee (Adam Beach) and Charlie Whitehorse (Roger Willie). Their orders are to keep these men safe, but if a code talker should fall into enemy hands they're to "protect the code at all costs. " As the men become reluctant friends and the bonds of war are forged, each man is ultimately faced with a terrible decision: if they can't protect their fellow Marines, how far will they go to protect the code?

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures presents John Woo's spectacular Windtalkers, a Lion Rock Production starring Academy Award®-winner Nicolas Cage. Written by John Rice & Joe Batteer, the film's impressive and talented cast includes Adam Beach, Peter Stormare, Noah Emmerich, Mark Ruffalo, Brian Van Holt, Roger Willie, Frances O'Connor, Martin Henderson, and Christian Slater. Windtalkers was produced by Woo, Terence Chang, Tracie Graham and Alison Rosenzweig, with executive producer C. O. Erickson and line producers John J. Smith and Richard Stenta. The production team includes Jeffrey Kimball, ASC, as director of photography, Holger Gross as production designer, and Steven Kemper, Jeff Gullo and Tom Rolf, A. C. E. as film editors, with special make-up effects created by Kevin Yagher. Caroline Macauley and Arthur Anderson served as co-producers. Honored composer James Horner wrote the music for th

Peter Stormare was born in Kumla, Närke, Sweden and grew up in Arbrå, Hälsingland. He changed his surname when he discovered that he shared it with a senior student at an acting academy. Like “storm” (a word which has the same meaning in Swedish and English), “stormare” is a Swedish word, meaning “stormer”. Before settling on “Stormare”, he briefly contemplated changing his name to “Mrots Retep”, which is simply “Peter Storm” backwards.
Stormare began his career with the Royal Dramatic Theatre, to which he belonged for 11 years. In 1990, he took a leading position as Associate Artistic Director at the Tokyo Globe Theatre and made a name for himself through various Shakespeare performances, including Hamlet. Three years later, he moved to New York City and mainly took part there in English language productions. He played Carl Hamilton, a fictional Swedish secret agent. He was discovered by international audiences for his critically acclaimed role as one of the kidnappers in Fargo (1996). He portrayed Dieter Stark in the 1997 film The Lost World: Jurassic Park and later played sleazy, unlicensed “eye-doctor” Solomon Eddie in Minority Report.
In 1998, he appeared in “The Frogger”, a Seinfeld episode where he played a rogue electrician known as Slippery Pete. He portrayed Uli Kunkel in the 1998 film The Big Lebowski, as well as playing Lev Andropov, a Russian cosmonaut in the 1998 film Armageddon. In 1999, he appeared as a villainous producer and director of hardcore porn in the film 8mm. He also portrayed Gunny in the 2002 film Windtalkers and Alexei in the 2003 film Bad Boys II. In 2003, he played Ernst Röhm in Hitler: The Rise of Evil. In the 2005 film Constantine, he played Lucifer. He played an interrogator in the 2005 film The Brothers Grimm. His first major character in television was on the Fox series Prison Break in 2005 for the first t

As they drive into the town of Alexandria, Minnesota, visitors are greeted by a most unusual figure standing by the roadside. Big Ole is a 28ft tall, four-ton model Viking, sporting a jaunty winged silver helmet, a voluminous ginger beard, a yellow tunic and a flowing red cloak. In one hand he is holding a fearsome spear, and in the other a shield emblazoned with the words: “Alexandria, Birthplace of America.”

Wait a minute, wasn’t America discovered by Christopher Columbus, not Big Ole? Not necessarily. A new investigation reveals that America might in fact have been reached first by Viking explorers, centuries before Columbus, and central to this thesis is the Kensington Runestone.

This astounding artefact – which was unearthed in Kensington, Minnesota, and is now on display at the Runestone Museum in Alexandria 20 miles away – may overturn the previously accepted doctrine of discovery and compel us to rewrite the history of the US. This is a potentially seismic story which shows everything we thought we knew about the birth of America might be wrong. So, do we have to consign Columbus to the dustbin of history? To answer that we have to go back to where it all began.

In 1898, the Swedish-born farmer Olof Ohman announced to the world that he had found a 90kg greywacke stone adorned with runes. It was buried under the roots of a tree on some land he was clearing in Kensington. Before you could say “epoch-making discovery”, it became known as the Kensington Runestone.

The stone’s markings were identified as Scandinavian runic writing, which scholars translated as: “We are eight Goths and 22 Norwegians on an exploration journey from Vinland to the West. We had a camp by a lake with two skerries [small rocky islands] one day’s journey north from this stone. We were fishing one day. After we came home, we found 10 of our men red with blood and dead. AVM [Ave Virgo Maria,