During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines.
Practical Effects
Real tunnels built, actors genuinely miserable.
Sound
Earth collapsing sounds will haunt your dreams.
Acting
Hazeldine's thousand-yard stare deserves awards.
Director
J.P. Watts
Sam Hazeldine
William Hawkin
Tom Goodman-Hill
Hellfire Jack
Kris Hitchen
Harold Stockford
Elliot James Langridge
George MacDonald
Sam Clemmett
Charlie MacDonald
Joseph Steyne
Shorty
Sonny Ashbourne Serkis
Henry
Anna Maguire
Jane Hawkin
Andrew Scarborough
Colonel Fielding
Douglas Reith
Field Marshal Haig
Benjamin Farry
German Officer
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Battle of Messines detonation remains one of history's largest non-nuclear explosions — soldiers in London felt it.
Director J.P. Watts specifically cast working-class actors with manual labor backgrounds; Sam Hazeldine's father was an actual miner.
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