Drama, War, TV Movie
Soldier Brian Wood, is accused of war crimes in Iraq by the human rights lawyer Phil Shiner. The two men go head to head in a legal and moral conflict that takes us from the battlefield, at so-called Checkpoint Danny Boy, to the courtroom and one of Britain’s biggest ever public inquiries, the Al-Sweady Inquiry.
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SIMILAR MOVIES
Never So Few
1979: Big Bang of the Present
John Rabe
Kes
Walnut Tree
The Legend of Manxmouse
The Man Who Cried
Six Minutes to Midnight
Graffiti Wars
National Theatre Live: The Boy With Two Hearts
Red Sorghum
Jubilee
Abigail's Party
Lootin'
Warsaw 44
Hope Gap
Colby
All Is True
Bradford Riots
Migrating Fears
SIMILAR MOVIES
Never So Few
IMDB 5.4 | Dec , 1959
A U.S. military troop takes command of a band of Burmese guerillas during World War II.1979: Big Bang of the Present
IMDB 5.7 | Dec , 2019
Deng Xiaoping's economic and political opening in China. Margaret Thatcher's extreme economic measures in the United Kingdom. Ayatollah Khomeini's Islamic Revolution in Iran. Pope John Paul II's visit to Poland. Saddam Hussein's rise to power in Iraq. The Soviet invasion of Afghanistan. The nuclear accident at the Harrisburg power plant and the birth of ecological activism. The year 1979, the beginning of the future.John Rabe
IMDB 7.1 | Apr , 2009
A true-story account of a German businessman who saved more than 200,000 Chinese during the Nanjing massacre in 1937-38.Kes
IMDB 7.4 | Apr , 1970
Bullied at school and ignored and abused at home by his indifferent mother and older brother, Billy Casper, a 15-year-old working-class Yorkshire boy, tames and trains his pet kestrel falcon whom he names Kes. Helped and encouraged by his English teacher and his fellow students, Billy finally finds a positive purpose to his unhappy existence.Walnut Tree
IMDB 6.9 | Feb , 2020
Qader, a bricklayer from Sardasht in Kurdistan Iran whose wife is pregnant with her 4th child, suddenly found himself amid a war crime perpetrated by the Saddam regime. On June 28th, 1987 Iraqi air fighters dropped mustard gas bombs on the city...The Legend of Manxmouse
IMDB 5.2 | Jun , 1979
A ceramic figure of a blue mouse with long ears, stubby legs, and no tail suddenly comes to life. He is a “Manxmouse” as known in the legend. Since he is new to this world, his fearless curiosity leads him to meet a frog couple, an aviator hawk, a stray tiger, and a girl. Although he learns about his ultimate fate-to be eaten by a “Manxcat”-he decides to face this cat and challenge his destiny.The Man Who Cried
IMDB 6.1 | Aug , 2000
A young refugee travels from Russia to America in search of her lost father and falls in love with a gypsy horseman.Six Minutes to Midnight
IMDB 6.1 | Oct , 2020
Summer 1939. Influential families in Nazi Germany have sent their daughters to a finishing school in an English seaside town to learn the language and be ambassadors for a future looking National Socialist. A teacher there sees what is coming and is trying to raise the alarm. But the authorities believe he is the problem.Graffiti Wars
IMDB 6 | Aug , 2011
A look at the feud between graffiti artists King Robbo and Banksy.National Theatre Live: The Boy With Two Hearts
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2021
When a young mother speaks out against the Taliban, she and her husband are forced to flee their home and country with their three sons. Embarking on a long and terrifying journey across Russia and through Europe, they seek final refuge in the UK. But, as their eldest son’s life-threatening heart condition worsens and requires urgent surgery, their escape soon becomes a race against time. Amit Sharma directs this widely acclaimed stage version of The Boy with Two Hearts (BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week). Based on extraordinary real-life experiences, it is a powerful story of hope, courage, and humanity – and a heartfelt tribute to the NHS.Red Sorghum
IMDB 7.1 | Oct , 1988
An old leper who owned a remote sorghum winery dies. Jiu'er, the wife bought by the leper, and her lover, identified only as "my Grandpa" by the narrator, take over the winery and set up an idealized quasi-matriarchal community headed by Jiu'er. When the Japanese invaders subject the area to their rule and cut down the sorghum to make way for a road, the community rises up and resists as the sorghum grows anew.Jubilee
IMDB 5.9 | Feb , 1978
Queen Elizabeth I visits late 1970s England to find a depressing landscape where life has changed since her time.Abigail's Party
IMDB 7.4 | Nov , 1977
Beverly and Laurence are entertaining their new neighbours, Angela and Tony as well as Sue, whose teenage daughter, Abigail, is having a party. Over drinks and small talk, class differences and relationship difficulties emerge.Lootin'
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2026
Imran Khalil made it: he finally got his big break as an actor. However, after an incident at a press event goes viral and gets him fired, he is forced to return to Luton and figure out his next move.Warsaw 44
IMDB 6.7 | Sep , 2014
City of Warsaw, Poland, August 1st, 1944. Citizens have experienced inhuman acts of terror and violence during five long years of Nazi occupation. As the Soviet Army relentlessly approaches, the youngest and bravest among them rise up as one and face tyranny fighting street by street, but the price to pay will be high and hard the way to freedom…Hope Gap
IMDB 6.4 | Oct , 2019
Grace lives an idyllic life in a British seaside town, but her world soon comes crashing down when her husband of 29 years tells her he's leaving her for another woman. Through stages of shock, disbelief and anger -- and with support from her son -- Grace ultimately regains her footing while learning it's never too late to be happy.Colby
IMDB 8 | Mar , 2022
22-year-old Colby is rebelling against feeling stifled by everybody because she's pregnant, but an encounter with a young man at a diner allows her momentary reprieve to be herself.All Is True
IMDB 6 | Dec , 2018
London, June 29th, 1613. The Globe Theater, ran by the famous playwright William Shakespeare, accidentally burns to ashes. Seriously affected, he stops writing and returns to his hometown, where his wife Anne and daughters Judith and Susanna get surprised to hear he intends to stay there definitively, after two decades working in the capital, neglecting his sincere affections for them.Bradford Riots
IMDB 5.5 | May , 2006
The story of the aftermath of the 2001 Bradford riots told from the perspective of an Asian familtyMigrating Fears
IMDB 0 | Feb , 2025
'Migrating Fears' is a docu-drama on the sentiments around migration, both from the side of the refugees and asylum-seekers as well as from the perspective of these segments of society that appear hesitant towards migration. Trying to understand 'migrating fears', the film follows Solon Solomon, a law professor, in his London quests and interactions with refugees, politicians and psychologists, as he comes to see the fear in the refugees' eyes and the worries of the locals, ultimately creating dialogues between the two groups.