Broken Arrow

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Broken Arrow may refer to:

• Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, United States
• Broken Arrow Public Schools

In film and television:

• Broken Arrows
• Broken Arrow (1950 film), a Golden Globe-winning western film
• Broken Arrow (TV series), an ABC television series, 1956–1960
• Broken Arrow (1996 film), starring John Travolta and Christian Slater, and directed by John Woo

In music:

• Broken Arrow (album), a 1996 album by Neil Young and Crazy Horse
• "Broken Arrow" (song), by Buffalo Springfield from the 1967 album Buffalo Springfield Again
• "Broken Arrow" (Robbie Robertson song), from the 1987 album Robbie Robertson
  • A cover version by Rod Stewart from the 1991 album Vagabond Heart
• "Broken Arrow", a 1959 single by Chuck Berry
• Broken Arrow was a Canadian band featuring Paul Humphrey, which released two CDs, Bend (1997), and Four Ways to Centre (2000).

Broken Arrow may also be:

• An accidental event that involves nuclear weapons or nuclear components but which does not create the risk of nuclear war, known as a Broken Arrow in United States military terminology.
• The United States code for calling in all available aircraft or artillery for an airstrike and/or artillery strike very near a friendly position which has been overrun by the foe, and therefore creating a high probability of 'Blue-on-Blue'. An example of this use was shown in the 2002 movie We Were Soldiers, a true story during which a Broken Arrow was called in by Lieutenant Colonel Hal Moore in 1965 while leading his men through the Ia Drang Valley in Vietnam.

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