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.
Acting
Anthony Boyle's trembling rage vs Toby Jones's cold certainty
Direction
Sam Miller weaponizes silence in cross-examination scenes
Writing
Refuses easy villains — everyone's complicit, everyone's wounded
Director
Sam Miller
Anthony Boyle
Brian Wood
Toby Jones
Phil Shiner
Leah McNamara
Lucy Wood
Alex Ferns
Gavin Wood
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
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The real Phil Shiner was struck off and later declared bankrupt after being found to have paid Iraqi middlemen to find claimants.
Director Sam Miller deliberately cast Anthony Boyle against type — the Northern Irish actor had previously played cowards and villains, making his heroic soldier's fall more devastating.
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