what was the name of the wars or battles portrayed in this motion picture?
The Battle of Mount Austen.
The Thin Red Line (1998 film)
. Telling a fictionalized version of the Battle of Mount Austen, which was part of the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II
where was the movie thin red line filmed Mostly in the  Daintree Rainforest and on Bramston Beach, both in north Queensland, Australia. who directed it? Terrence Malick. what type of film was it? It was an American epic war film. is the motion picture based on a true story? No, it is based on the 1962 novel of the same name by James Jones.
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The Thin Red Line (1998 film) [SEP] Introduction
The Thin Red Line is a 1998 American epic war film written and directed by Terrence Malick. It is the second screen adaptation of the 1962 novel of the same name by James Jones, following the 1964 film; however, this film is not considered a remake. Telling a fictionalized version of the Battle of Mount Austen, which was part of the Guadalcanal Campaign in the Pacific Theater of World War II, it portrays soldiers of C Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division, played by Sean Penn, Jim Caviezel, Nick Nolte, Elias Koteas and Ben Chaplin. The novel's title alludes to a line from Rudyard Kipling's poem "Tommy", from "Barrack-Room Ballads", in which he calls British foot soldiers "the thin red line of heroes", referring to the stand of the 93rd Regiment in the Battle of Balaclava of the Crimean War.