1996 | R | 1h 56min If a movie shows a military funeral featuring the “missing-man formation”—that fighter-jet fly-by where one out of the four warplanes pulls vertical and disappears into the clouds—I’m a mess. If the movie ends with a scene in Arlington Cemetery, with its rows of white gravestones as far as the eye can see, accompanied by “Braveheart” type strains or militaristic bugles, fifes, and drums, I’m immediately destroyed. “Courage Under Fire” has both. “Courage Under Fire” is based on the storytelling template of legendary filmmaker Akira Kurosawa’s “Rashomon” (1950), which contains the artifice of relating an event via participants who have differing memories of it. It’s similar to the parable of the six blind men and the elephant. They all encounter an elephant, but by touch, one blind man determines that it’s a python (he’s got hold of the elephant’s trunk), and another maintains it’s a pillar (he’s got …