One Man's Hero is a 1999 historical war drama film directed by Lance Hool and starring Tom Berenger, Joaquim de Almeida and Daniela Romo.

[2] Winfield Scott, Chief Commanding Officer of the U.S. Army, orders that sixteen Irish immigrant soldiers be illegally whipped for "desertion" after they are caught entering Mexico to attend Catholic religious services.

Scott refuses an attempt by the Mexican government, represented by Col. Nexor, to recognize the survivors as prisoners of war; protests have come in from all the nations of the world denouncing their punishment as barbaric and an utter contradiction of the principles of the American Revolution.

Scott refuses to hear any appeals, and at court-martial sentences the condemned to be hanged in the direction of Chapultepec Castle so that they may witness the final defeat of the Mexicans.

He has a connection to Mexico through his grandfather, Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois, whose mother, Susana María de la Torre y Mier was a member of the Mexican nobility.