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This is only a semi-recommendation, but I remember being startled when I saw Toy Soldiers by the basic narrative of "oh look, we've been occupied by bad guys. clearly what we need to do is gather a lot of information about their numbers, location, and armament and then figure out a way to get that information to our much stronger allies outside"
Which sounds kind of obvious, but flies in the face of most movie narratives of the same sort.
(Caveat: I saw it like 20 years ago; my memory may well be distorted.)
To clarify: it sounds like you mean http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Soldiers_%281991_film%29 and not http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toy_Soldiers_%281984_film%29 ?
Hah! Yes; yes I do. I hadn't been aware of the latter.
Given the wikipedia reference to a "bloody attempted rescue" it might be teaching the same lesson via negative example. I'm inclined to doubt it, though.