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The 2002 movie Windtalkers was a fictional story based on Navajo code talkers who were enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in World War II. The movie was criticized for featuring the Navajo characters only in supporting roles, not as the primary focus of the film. The film's plot was fabricated about white bodyguards being ordered to kill them should they fall into enemy hands. It was further criticized for its use of stereotypes of both Native Americans and east Asians.
The 1959 movie Never So Few features Charles Bronson as Sgt. John Danforth, a Navajo code talker.
The historical novel Code Talker portrays a group of Navajos serving in the Marine Corps in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
A memoir has been written by an actual code talker. Chester Nez is the last survivor of the original Navajo code talkers in WWII. He helped to develop the famous code and then took it into battle to prove that it would work. His memoir is Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir by One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII.
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