Danny Boy

Danny Boy

2021 · 90 min · ★ 6.8 · 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.

Directed by Sam Miller · Written by Robert Jones

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