Movie
Dirty War
Overview
After years of meticulous planning, a terrorist operation is reaching its final stages. The authorities have received no intelligence; they are in a race against time but don't yet know it. As the operation unfolds, we see the working lives of men and women directly affected by terrorism. Among them: a firemen worried about the increasingly dangerous conditions he and his men are expected to work under; the head of the anti-terrorist branch whose responsibility it is to protect London and a female Muslim detective brought into Scotland Yard to investigate another suspected terrorist cell. But it is too late to stop the attack.
Details
- Release date
- 2004-09-26
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Genres
- Drama, Thriller, TV Movie
- Status
- Released
- Production
- BBC Film, BBC, HBO Films
- Country
- United Kingdom, United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Louise Delamere as Liz Corrigan
- Alastair Galbraith as Murray Corrigan
- Waleed Elgadi as Abu Abassi
- Martin Savage as DS Mike Drummer
- Koel Purie as DC Sameena Habibullah
- Helen Schlesinger as Nicola Painswick
- Ewan Stewart as Deputy Assistant Commissioner John Ives
- Paul Antony-Barber as Commander Paul Hardwick
- Dorian Healy as Harper
- David Horovitch as Lambert
- Raza Jaffrey as Rashid Dhar
- George Georgiou as Usman Selcuk
Crew
- Daniel Percival - Director
- Daniel Percival - Writer
- Lizzie Mickery - Writer
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