This Tom Hanks comedy about a covert Cold War operation in Afghanistan should be next on your Netflix queue this Labor Day weekend ...

"Charlie Wilson's War" may be a lesser movie for pulling its punches, but it still remains a hilarious and fascinating look at a political system that can allow a playboy congressman to almost ...

Charlie and Barbara Wilson join other celebrities on the red carpet before the movie 'Charlie Wilson's War.' Joanne Herring walks the red carpet for the premiere of at Universal Studios in Los ...

3 stars. Tom Hanks, Julia Roberts and Philip Seymour Hoffman star in this true-life tale of a party-hardy Texas congressman who orchestrated one of the largest covert operations in U.S.

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. "Charlie Wilson's War" is one of those stories that couldn't have been made up. A liberal, back-slapping, playboy Texas ...

Charlie Wilson, the former congressman from Texas whose funding of Afghanistan's resistance to the Soviet Union was chronicled in the movie and book "Charlie Wilson's War," died Wednesday. He was 76.