The Eagle (2011)

Directors

Kevin Macdonald

Cast

Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell, Mark Strong, Donald Sutherland, Denis O'Hare, Paul Ritter, Julian Lewis Jones, Lukács Bicskey, Douglas Henshall, James Hayes, Dakin Matthews, Jon Campling, Tahar Rahim, Thomas Henry, Ned Dennehy, Robin Atkin Downes

The story

In the year 140 AD, twenty years after the Ninth Legion of the Roman army disappeared in the north of Britain, Marcus Flavius Aquila, a young Roman centurion, arrives in Roman Britain to serve at his first post as a garrison commander. Marcus's father, who was the Senior Centurion of the ninth, disappeared with the eagle standard of the ill-fated legion, and Marcus hopes to redeem his family's honour by bravely serving in Britain. Shortly afterwards, only Marcus's alertness and decisiveness save the garrison from being overrun by Celtic tribesmen in a local insurrection.

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