这是一部典型美国英雄主义的影片。越战期间,许多像文森(安东尼•巴里奥 Anthony Barrile 饰)一样的怀有参战理想或各种不得不参战原因的年轻人来到了空降师,他们虽然同属一支部队,但是由于当时种族歧视盛行,部队里的气氛并不是那么和谐。 这天,空降师接到了一个任务,就是攻占阿士谷937山丘。当文森所在的空降部队降落到指定地点时,他们发现防守的北越军队在这里已经整装待发。于是,一场异常艰巨的拉锯战打响了。北越军人数上占了很多优势,美军伤亡惨重,但为了完成任务,原本互相心存芥蒂的不同人种的美军士兵都抛开了以往一切成见,齐心协力一起往上攻。经过了11次的攻击,他们终于占领了937山丘。因这里已经尸横遍野,所以士兵们称之为“汉堡高地”。A brutal and realistic war film focuses on the lives of a squad of 14 U.S. Army soldiers of B Company, 3rd Battalion, 187th Infanty Regiment, 101st Airborne Division during the brutal 10 day (May 11-20, 1969) battle for Hill 937 in the A Shau Valley of Vietnam as they try again and again to take the fortified hill held by the North Vietnamese, and the faults and casualties they take every time in which the battle was later dubbed "Hamburger Hill" because enemy fire was so fierce that the fusillade of bullets turned assaulting troops into shreded hamburger meat.