Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Age rating
- 15
- Language
- English
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
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.
- united kingdom
- war crime
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
- Tom Vaughan-Lawlor — Patrick O'Connor
- Sarah Niles — Stella Marshall
- Kiran Sonia Sawar — Deena Aayari
- Emma Lowndes — Sgt Gail Lennox
- Oaklee Pendergast — Young Brian
- Pauline Turner — Margaret Wood
- Tommy Finnegan — Bailey Wood
- Spike Leighton — Rushforth
- Joel Morris — Falconer
- Matt Beauman-Jones — High Ranking Military Officer
- Nima Taleghani — Mazin
- Directed
- Sam Miller
- Written
- Robert Jones
Production
- Rating
- 6.8 / 10 · 129 ratings
- Studio
- Red Dragon Productions, Expectation TV
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