
Platoon(1986)
As a young and naive recruit in Vietnam, Chris Taylor faces a moral crisis when confronted with the horrors of war and the duality of man.


“Deliver them from evil.”
In the brutal trench fighting of the First World War, a British Infantry Company is separated from their regiment after a fierce battle. Attempting to return to their lines, the British soldiers discover what appears to be a bombed out German trench, abandoned except for a few dazed German soldiers. After killing most of the Germans, and taking one prisoner, the British company fortifies to hold the trench until reinforcements can arrive. Soon, however, strange things being to happen as a sense of evil descends on the trench and the British begin turn on each other.

Jamie Bell
Pfc. Charlie Shakespeare

Rúaidhrí Conroy
Pvt. Colin Chevasse
Mike Downey
Martin Plummer

Laurence Fox
Capt. Bramwell Jennings
Roman Horák
German soldier

Dean Lennox Kelly
Pvt. Willie McNess

Torben Liebrecht
Friedrich

Kris Marshall
Pvt. Barry Starinski

Hans Matheson
Pvt. Jack Hawkstone

Hugh O'Conor
Anthony Bradford
Deathwatch is a drama, horror, thriller, war film released in 2002 exploring themes of supernatural, assault, soldier, trenches, horrors of war, 1910s. Directed by MJ Bassett, it stars Jamie Bell, Rúaidhrí Conroy, Mike Downey. In the brutal trench fighting of the First World War, a British Infantry Company is separated from their regiment after a fierce battle. Attempting to return to their lines, the British soldiers discover what appears to be a bombed out German trench, abandoned except for a few dazed German soldiers. After killing most of the Germans, and taking one prisoner, the British company fortifies to hold the trench until reinforcements can arrive. Soon, however, strange things being to happen as a sense of evil descends on the trench and the British begin turn on each other.
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