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Bravo Two Zero | |
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Based on | Bravo Two Zero by Andy McNab |
Written by | Troy Kennedy-Martin |
Directed by | Tom Clegg |
Starring |
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Theme music composer | David Ferguson |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 1 |
No. of episodes | 2 |
Production | |
Producer | Ruth Caleb |
Cinematography | Rod Stewart |
Editor | Ettie M. Feldman |
Running time | 54 minutes |
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Original release | |
Network | BBC One |
Release | 3 January 4 January 1999 | –
Bravo Two Zero is a 1999 two-hour television miniseries (broadcast in two parts between 3 and 4 January in the UK), based on the 1993 book of the same name by Andy McNab. The film covers real life events – from the perspective of Andy McNab, patrol commander of Bravo Two Zero, a British SAS patrol, tasked to find Iraqi Scud missile launchers during the Gulf War in 1991. The names of the patrol members killed were changed.
A previous film about the patrol, The One That Got Away, based on the book of the same name by Chris Ryan, was broadcast in 1996.
Cast
- Sean Bean as Andy McNab
- Kevin Collins as Chris
- Steve Nicolson as "Dinger"
- Rick Warden as Tony Benotti
- Richard Graham as Mark Warner
- Ian Curtis as Baz Brown
- Jamie Bartlett as Ray Davies
- Robert Hobbs as Stan Rigby
- Ron Senior Jr. as Pete
- Robert Whitehead as Iraqi Colonel
- Caz Abrahams as White Socks
- Nick Ashby as Jeral
- Barry Berk as Cyril
- Julia Booth as Sally
- Melissa Carter as Katie
- Dimitri Cassar as Iraqi officer #1
- Emma Chambers as Dinger's wife
- Alison Coles as Jilly
- George Coutsoudis as Son in taxi
- Ernst Eloff as Iraqi Farmer
- Arishaad Erreeff as Shepherd
- Anthony Fridjohn as Dentist
- Thomas Hall as Gordon
- Graham Hopkins as Graham
- Akram Ibrahim as Prison Governor
- Brent King as Shepherd boy
- Maki Kossioris as Father in taxi
- Dehan Liebenberg as Loadie #1
- Tim Mahoney as Harry
- Anna Meininger as Melissa
- Nissam Moalem as Taxi driver
- Alistair Prodgers as Bert
- Nicky Rebello as Interrogator
- Louise Saint-Claire as Red Cross worker
- Abdallah Sardi as S60 Commander
- Russel Savadier as Iraqi Captain
- Yvonne Van Den Berg as Woman in bar
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- British television films
- BBC television dramas
- Films based on non-fiction books
- Films set in Iraq
- Gulf War films
- Prisoner of war films
- War films based on actual events
- British films
- Films based on British novels
- English-language films
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