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A Navajo teen becomes a WWII Marine Code Talker, turning a language once forbidden at boarding school into an unbreakable wartime code.
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A Navajo teen becomes a WWII Marine Code Talker, turning a language once forbidden at boarding school into an unbreakable wartime code.
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After being taught in a boarding school run by whites that Navajo is a useless language, Ned Begay and other Navajo men are recruited by the Marines to become Code Talkers, sending messages during World War II in their native tongue.
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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No romantic or sexual content
Violence & gore
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Intense Pacific battle scenes and war deaths without graphic gore
Profanity
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No profanity present
Substance use
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Brief mentions of soldiers drinking; veterans using alcohol to cope
LGBTQ+ Rep.
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No LGBTQ+ content present
Religious content
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Christian mission boarding school; Navajo spiritual and cultural practices
Magic & witchcraft
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No fantasy magic present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content
Political content
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Central themes of racism, forced assimilation, and Navajo wartime service
Self-harm / suicide
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No evidence found in available sources
Abuse & suffering
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Boarding-school cruelty and cultural erasure; wartime trauma and racism
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