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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Grave, earnest, classical in form and contemporary.
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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
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Cast
- Anthony BoyleBrian Wood
- Toby JonesPhil Shiner
- Leah McNamaraLucy Wood
- Alex FernsGavin Wood
- Tom Vaughan-LawlorPatrick O'Connor
- Sarah NilesStella Marshall
- Kiran Sonia SawarDeena Aayari
- Emma LowndesSgt Gail Lennox
- Oaklee PendergastYoung Brian
- Pauline TurnerMargaret Wood
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- Sam MillerDirector
- Robert JonesWriter
- Adam GillhamDirector of Photography
- Jamie PearsonEditor
- Simon LewisProducer
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