Premieres: October 18
Network: BBC America
Who Is In It? James Nesbitt, Stephen Graham, Warren Brown
A look at the Iraq conflict through the eyes of three British soldiers in Basra, and how a single horrifying moment changes all their lives. Nesbitt gives a nuanced performance as Mike Swift, a flawed hero who saves a small child and falls in love with her Iraqi doctor. Graham plays Danny, a man jaded by the conflict, who teams with an American Marine to form a private company and lay claim to some of the billions in cash sent over to finance the country’s rebuilding. Hibbs (Brown), the most sensitive of the three, works as a mercenary with Danny until a horrible act of violence makes him rethink his loyalties.
But the three-part drama is also about Iraq and how, in the five years in which this story unfolds, society crumbled into extremism and violence. There have been a lot of features on this war, but nothing has captured it quite as well as this film.
