Danny Boy

May 12, 2021

1h 30m

★ 6.8

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.

Genres

Drama

War

TV Movie

Production Companies

Red Dragon Productions

Expectation TV

Danny Boy Trailers

Cast

Brian Wood

Anthony Boyle

Phil Shiner

Toby Jones

Lucy Wood

Leah McNamara

Gavin Wood

Alex Ferns

Patrick O'Connor

Tom Vaughan-Lawlor

Stella Marshall

Sarah Niles

Deena Aayari

Kiran Sonia Sawar

Sgt Gail Lennox

Emma Lowndes

Young Brian

Oaklee Pendergast

Margaret Wood

Pauline Turner

Bailey Wood

Tommy Finnegan

Rushforth

Spike Leighton

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