Lions for Lambs (2007)

"Lions for Lambs" is a 2007 Action movie directed by Matthew Michael Carnahan and starring by Meryl Streep, Tom Cruise. Three stories told simultaneously in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical television reporter, detailing a strategy for victory in Afghanistan; two special forces ambushed on an Afghani ridge await rescue as Taliban forces close in; a poli-sci professor at a California college invites a student to re-engage.