History Film / BehindEnemyLines

* DressingAsTheEnemy: Burnett swaps his flightsuit for a dead mook's uniform to get out of an enemy-controlled town. It works, but the Serbs broadcast word that he's been killed, which makes the NATO forces turn around when they were heading to rescue him.
* GunsAkimbo: Sasha at one point dual wields his own CZ 75B pistol and the Beretta 92SB he took from Stackhouse, firing both of them at Burnett when he spots him.
** General Ntonga in the fourth film starts blasting away at the Navy SEAL team with dual pistols. One of them looks [[BlingBlingBang golden.]]

* HeKnowsTooMuch: The Serbs are hunting the crew because they overflew and took pictures of a mass grave. For the first half of the movie, Burnett doesn't even know ''why'' they're trying to kill him.

* KeepItForeign: Invoked by Creator/RogerEbert in his review of this movie, also provides the page quote.

* VeryLooselyBasedOnATrueStory: Mass graves did happen, and a US pilot did get shot down, but that's about it.

* InterServiceRivalry: NATO and the U.S. Navy in the first movie, specifically Admiral Piquet and Admiral Reigart.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Most of the exteriors were actually filmed in more remote parts of {{UsefulNotes/Slovakia}} instead of Bosnia. Most of the supposedly Serbian military vehicles were lent for shooting by the Slovak Army [[IKnowThatGun and disguised a bit to look more like 90s ex-Yugoslav hardware]].
** ''Axis of Evil'' was filmed entirely in Bulgaria. Thus, the so-called North Korean troops [[ArtisticLicenseMilitary use Bulgarian uniforms and weaponry]].
*** Even some of the SEALs in the movie use Eastern Bloc weaponry, though mocked up to look like NATO weapons.

''Behind Enemy Lines'' is a 2001 movie starring Owen Wilson as Lt. Chris Burnett, a Flight Navigator who gets shot down over {{UsefulNotes/Bosnia}} and has survive while trapped [[TitleDrop behind enemy lines.]] The Serbian force that is after him and which summarily executed his pilot is especially tenacious because during their recon mission they inadvertently photographed mass graves. Running ensues.

* KeepItForeign: Invoked by RogerEbert in his review of this movie, also provides the page quote.

* FakeNationality: All of the Serbian characters were portrayed by Croatian actors.

* FakeNationality: All of the Serbian characters were portrayed by Croatian actors, probably because no Westerner can tell the difference and no self-respecting Serbian actor would play the stereotypical role of the bad guy terrorist.
** To be honest, no Serbian or Croatian person could tell the difference, either. Not even by accent, since accents depend on where the person is from, rather than what ethnicity they are - a person born in Belgrade is going to have a different accent from a person born in Bosnia or Croatia, but people from a certain part of Croatia or Bosnia will have the same accents regardless of their ethnicity.

* TrappedBehindEnemyLines: [[CaptainObvious Obviously]]

* GaulsWithGrenades: The French Army Special Forces accompanied the US Marines in the rescue mission.

* NorthKoreansWithNodongs: The villains of ''Axis of Evil''.

* TheYugoslavWars: The setting for this story.

--> '''Chris''': "Archangel, we've been engaged!"

--> '''Chris''': Holy shit! We're being ''painted!''
--> '''Jeremy''': '''What?!'''

--> '''Jeremy''': '''[[FlatWhat What?!]]'''

The film is followed by three direct-to-video sequels, ''Behind Enemy Lines 2: Axis of Evil'', ''Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia'', and ''SEAL Team 8: Behind Enemy Lines.''

* GoodLookingPrivates: The female comm officer Collins in the fourth movie is ''very'' pretty. Then again, she's played by South African model Tanya van Graaf.

* HighSpeedMissileDodge: Subverted in that it doesn't work.

* GunsAkimbo: Sasha at one point dial wields his own CZ 75B pistol and the Beretta 92SB he took from Stackhouse, firing both of them at Burnett when he spots him.

The film is followed by two direct-to-video sequels, ''Behind Enemy Lines 2: Axis of Evil'' and ''Behind Enemy Lines: Colombia''.

* BulletTime: Used in the scene where Serbian troops off a minefield while chasing Burnett.

''Behind Enemy Lines'' is a 2001 movie starring Owen Wilson as Lt. Chris Burnett, a Flight Navigator who gets shot down over Bosnia and has survive while trapped [[TitleDrop behind enemy lines.]] The Serbian force that is after him and which summarily executed his pilot is especially tenacious because during their recon mission they inadvertently photographed mass graves. Running ensues.

* CaliforniaDoubling: Most of the exteriors were actually filmed in more remote parts of Slovakia instead of Bosnia. Most of the supposedly Serbian military vehicles were lent for shooting by the Slovak Army [[IKnowThatGun and disguised a bit to look more like 90s ex-Yugoslav hardware]].

* TheYugoslavWars: The setting for this story.