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Is there an episode where?

posted 14 years ago by jcrucifiedp
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it starts off with a young boy with a brown bowl-cut haircut during the Civil War. He finds a cave with some type of object in it. He takes it. Then he and a group of soldiers are captured by Confederates. They make the soldiers walk across a minefield. All of the captured soldiers die except for the kid. When he gets to the other end of the minefield the soldiers make him walk through it again and he still does not die.

Then it cuts to the modern day (1980s). There is a group of army soldiers doing drills in the same forest. The lead soldier looks like an Adrian Pasdar or Michael Dudikoff. The soldiers are in the back of an army truck riding back to base. The lead guy jumps out the back on a bet to see if he can run back to base before the truck arrives. I can't remember the rest of the plot.

I can swear it was an episode from an HBO series from the 80s, but I haven't found it yet.

[–] MystMoonstruck 8 years ago

This is six years later, but I just found this. You're describing a feature film.

The Supernaturals (1986)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Supernaturals_(film)

From Wikipedia:
One hundred years ago, deep in the backwoods of the Southern United States, a Confederate town is held captive, the soldiers forced to walk through a piece of woodland laced with mines. Because he is found wearing a Confederate outfit, Jeremy, a young boy, is also forced to make the crossing. If they make it across the minefield, the Union Army 44th will set them free. Only Jeremy and his mother~who runs to save him~survive, despite the fact that the mother has stepped on a mine. Jeremy exhibits unearthly powers. Jump to circa 1985, and a platoon of soldiers are out on maneuvers in the same backwoods. They are the 44th, descendants of the Union platoon of years before...

The cast includes: Maxwell Caulfield, Nichelle Nichols, Talia Balsam, LeVar Burton and Scott Jacoby.

It's a shame this one isn't available. I have a recorded copy somewhere in my thousands of VCRs. Someday, perhaps I'll track it down to watch it yet again.

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