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be·hind en·e·my lines

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  1. Behind Enemy Lines

    Behind Enemy Lines is a 2001 action war film directed by John Moore in his directorial debut, and starring Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman. The film tells the story of Lieutenant Chris Burnett, an American naval flight officer who is shot down over Bosnia and uncovers genocide during the Bosnian War. Meanwhile, his commanding officer is struggling to gain approval to launch a search and rescue mission to save Burnett. The plot is loosely based on the 1995 Mrkonjić Grad incident that occurred during the war. Released on November 30, 2001, Behind Enemy Lines received generally negative reviews from critics, with criticism aimed at the film's action scenes and its perceived jingoistic plot. However, it was a considerable box office success, taking in nearly $92 million worldwide against a $40 million budget. The film was followed by three direct-to-video sequels, Behind Enemy Lines II: Axis of Evil, Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia and SEAL Team 8: Behind Enemy Lines, with the third film being co-produced by WWE Studios. None of these films feature the cast and crew of this film.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of behind enemy lines in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of behind enemy lines in Pythagorean Numerology is: 1

Examples of behind enemy lines in a Sentence

  1. Perry Blackburn:

    There are American citizens behind enemy lines, there is no worse statement from a government than to say we left our citizens behind enemy lines.

  2. Perry Blackburn:

    There is no worse statement from a government than to say we left our citizens behind enemy lines.

  3. Nathan Sales:

    The administration is really leaning forward in encouraging people to leave because they simply don't want more headlines about how the administration failed a second time and left Americans stranded, part of the reason the White House is calling for Americans to leave now is because the administration is feeling snake-bitten by Afghanistan. The president told us that he was going to stay in country until we got every single American out. Obviously, that didn't happen, and we still have hundreds, maybe thousands of American citizens stranded behind enemy lines in Afghanistan.

  4. Rene Toomse:

    I imagine that we can do much more damage behind enemy lines than Ukraine has done, all the logistics, all the convoys, are going to be constantly under attack.


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  • خلف خطوط العدوArabic
  • derrière les lignes ennemiesFrench
  • dibelakang garis musuhIndonesian
  • dietro le linee nemicheItalian
  • 적 배후에서Korean
  • bak fiendens linjerNorwegian
  • в тылу врагаRussian
  • எதிரி எல்லைகளுக்கு பின்னால்Tamil
  • دشمن کی صفوں کے پیچھےUrdu
  • 在敵人之後Chinese

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