Movie
Danny Boy
Overview
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.
Details
- Release date
- 2021-05-12
- Runtime
- 90 min
- Genres
- Drama, War, TV Movie
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Red Dragon Productions, Expectation TV
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Anthony Boyle as Brian Wood
- Toby Jones as Phil Shiner
- Leah McNamara as Lucy Wood
- Alex Ferns as Gavin Wood
- Tom Vaughan-Lawlor as Patrick O'Connor
- Sarah Niles as Stella Marshall
- Kiran Sonia Sawar as Deena Aayari
- Emma Lowndes as Sgt Gail Lennox
- Oaklee Pendergast as Young Brian
- Pauline Turner as Margaret Wood
- Tommy Finnegan as Bailey Wood
- Spike Leighton as Rushforth
Crew
- Sam Miller - Director
- Robert Jones - Writer
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