The Siege of Jadotville (2016)
Irish Commandant Pat Quinlan leads a stand off with troops against French and Belgian Mercenaries in the Congo during the early 1960s.
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This film make you a irsh soldier !! You can feel all war atmosphere in this movie also film has a very touching story. If you like to watch a war movie this film deserves a change to watch
Surrounded for five days by a larger force and no one died? I'm not surprised they were called the Jadotville Jacks. This is a propaganda movie to make it seem like these guys fought bravely and were misunderstood, but let's be honest, it seems like there was a good reason to claim they were cowards. We might not have heard the whole story. I think they just didn't want to die for Jadotville and took a few days to contemplate surrendering. The so-called casualties were probably self-inflicted. A lot stinks about this movie and it's sad that many of the younger people, gun nuts, war fetishists can't see this.
An excellent war drama about a little known episode involving UN Peace Keepers from the Irish Defense Forces. The film is excellent on many levels including acting, direction and location. The combat action is on par or better than in any of the Hollywood War films. The unknown cast is superb as is the filming. One of the very best Netflix films - not to be missed.
Another brilliant production from Netflix, they are certainly flying high right now - great production, writing and acting. This is, at its core, a superb combat movie and even more interesting in that respect because equipment wise things hadn't really moved on from WWII. The alternate story is one of self serving, self aggrandizing politicians - the antecedents of those we see everywhere today. These miserable cretins were willing to sacrifice good men for a stated reason of avoiding world war - of course this is BS as it always is, the careers of these rat like parasitical creatures go from strength to strength (and wealth to more wealth) while honorable servicemen are left to languish. You are left amazed at how little ever changes - and I doubt it ever will.