High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Hamburger Hill is a 1987 American war film about the actual assault of the U.S. Army`s 3rd Battalion, 187th Infantry Regiment, part of the 3rd Brigade, 101st Airborne Division `Screaming Eagles`, on a well-fortified position, including trenchworks and bunkers, of the North Vietnamese Army on Ap Bia Mountain near the Laotian border. American military records of the battle refer to the mountain as `Hill 937`, its map designation having been derived from its being 937 meters high.