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Warriors [VHS] [1999]

VHS ~ Matthew Macfadyen
4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)

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  • Actors: Matthew Macfadyen, Darren Morfitt, Cal Macaninch, Ioan Gruffudd, Joe Renton
  • Directors: Peter Kosminsky
  • Writers: Leigh Jackson
  • Producers: Peter Kosminski, Jane Tranter, Michael Dreyer, Nigel Stafford-Clark, Pippa Harris
  • Format: PAL
  • Language English
  • Classification: 15
  • Studio: 2 Entertain Video
  • VHS Release Date: 29 Nov 1999
  • Run Time: 180 minutes
  • Average Customer Review: 4.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (34 customer reviews)
  • ASIN: B00004D08G
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 3,960 in Video (See Bestsellers in Video)

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Amazon.co.uk Review

If the conflict in Bosnia has become something of a forgotten war, it's not for the want of trying from the immensely powerful BBC film Warriors, the story of five young soldiers and their harrowing experiences in the region. Opening with an extended view of the five's home lives--all are on leave when called up to form part of the UN peacekeeping mission--Peter Kosminksy invites the viewer to experience the war at a strictly personal level. And while this leaves little scope for any general political overview of events (aside from the horror of war) this is a piece of drama and not a documentary. Once transported to Bosnia, the protagonists find that their role as peacekeepers leaves them largely sidelined and unable to intervene and save lives, often forced to stand by and watch mass slaughter. Not since M*A*S*H have the absurdities of "the rules of engagement" been so eloquently examined. It is the darkening spiral that the five are sent on by these events and the relationships they form throughout them that forms the crux of the film, never demonstrated more clearly than by the return to the friends and families who see them as heroes. Bloody and sickening in parts, Warriors is given extra poignancy by the fact that it is based on the real-life testimony of British soldiers. A million miles away from the Rambos of this world this is the war film coming of age. --Phil Udell


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A drama based on the events of the British in Bosnia, told through the eyes of a group of young soldiers from the Cheshire Regiment.

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30 of 31 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars I was there, it was like that, 25 Jul 2001
By A Customer
Serving 12 mnths in Bosnia myself with the UN as a soldier, I must truly say that watching this film brought me back. I watched in awe and it brought tears to my eyes to once again relive the months we spent there. The director manages to create the moods and feelings and frustrations that were so common for all of the soldiers serving with the UN. It also portrais the restlessness and feeling of unfinished buisiness that so many felt after returning home. This movie is truly one that most people who have former UN personell in their family or among friends should see. Maybe then they`ll understand. To the makers of this film: You have earned a soldiers respect.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Powerful, Moving, Upsetting, 30 April 2003
By A Customer
Warriors is a hard hitting drama from the BBC. I first watched it 4 years ago, and watching again recently still left me in awe. The soldiers are human and humane, but hamstrung by the UN regulations.
Unable to help people directly due to fears of 'ethnic cleansing' they leave people to die at the hands of monsters who used to be their neighbours.
The drama also shows the effects of the conflict on their lives when they return to Britain.
A number of outstanding performances lend realism to the production. None more so than Matthew MacFadyen, who plays the scouser Pvt James, who deals with what he experiences in a simple, humane way. He is left baffled by the authorities unwillingness or inability to do the right thing. His passage from a joker to a hurt human being is the pivot of the drama; he experiences the very worst of all the shocking (and graphic) misfortunes that befall the crew. The things that they see and cannot affect cause anguish to those at ground level.

You must watch this.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars A must see!!, 28 Nov 2003
By Ollie Pullen (United Kingdom) - See all my reviews
WOW!!! What an amazing film. I first watched this when it was aired on the BBC a few years ago and I have been meaning to buy it for a long time.
I have not for many years seen a film that evokes such an emotive reaction, you will experience grief, anger, sympathy & guilt watching this highly emotive and accurate portrayal of our British troops as UN peace keepers in Bosnia.
Lets hope this film will remain a stark reminder of the horrific war crimes and ethnic cleansing that happened during that time and no doubt similar atrocities which still happen all over the world to this day. How easy it is to forget.
Congratulations to the beeb for portraying this difficult story with such humility as it deserves. A must, must, must buy!!
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5.0 out of 5 stars Warriors
I have never been a big fan of war films so I don't really know why I watched this when it was first shown on TV, but I did and was totally hooked. Read more
Published 1 month ago by J. Costello

5.0 out of 5 stars Harrowing, heartbreaking and very human
A phemononal story that had to be told. A drama about soldiers but not about them fighting, but being forced not to fight and sitting on the sidelines of a war they don't... Read more
Published 2 months ago by A. Johnston

4.0 out of 5 stars Something every should see
I first saw this on the Beeb 10 years ago and it impacted me a great deal then, partly because I'd just met a guy who'd served there and had been 'retired' from the army, and was... Read more
Published 3 months ago by John H

4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent film, drawbacks due to distribution!
Such a shame that this hasn't been released in the UK, and I have to get in a Dutch-subtitled version. Read more
Published 3 months ago by C. Forrester

4.0 out of 5 stars Warriors
After having been there in BiH (albeit a few years after this was set) I think this is realistic and a very good portraylal of what the squaddies went through and the frustration... Read more
Published 3 months ago by Aussie who went away.

5.0 out of 5 stars Want to know what the balkan wars did to UN soldiers, see this movie.
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder, this film explains it to newbie's. Doctors should watch this as mandatory to their education.
Published 3 months ago by UNPROFOR

5.0 out of 5 stars Warriors? Definitely
I first saw this when the BBC screened it in the late 90's. I've been trying to get it on DVD for a while and I'm very happy with the Dutch release, which is fine for UK viewing... Read more
Published 4 months ago by B. C. O'Neill

5.0 out of 5 stars Brilliant
Let's get one misconception out of the way. UN Peacekeepers? No, how can any outsiders keep the peace in a civil war? Read more
Published 4 months ago by Dr. Mabuse

4.0 out of 5 stars i was there
i was part of the first deployment op grapple 1 with the 1 cheshire battle group.i am still suffering from the effects years later. Read more
Published 4 months ago by Douglas Paterson

5.0 out of 5 stars Warriors
I watched this DVD as soon as I received it. I remembered it being aired on the BBC several years ago. Read more
Published 5 months ago by K. E. Forrester

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