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Genre | Special Forces / Gulf War |
Distributed by | BBC |
Directed by | Tom Clegg |
Produced by | Ruth Caleb |
Written by | Troy Kennedy-Martin Andy McNab (novel) |
Starring | Sean Bean Steve Nicolson Rick Warden Richard Graham Ian Curtis |
Music by | David Ferguson |
Cinematography | Rod Stewart |
Editing by | Ettie M. Feldman |
Country | United Kingdom |
Language | English |
Release date | 1999 |
Running time | 115 minutes |
Bravo Two Zero is a 1999 two hour television miniseries (broadcast in two parts), based on the 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.