The Siege of Jadotville
Following the civil war in Katanga, Congo that leads to tension and instability in the region, the United Nations send a group of courageous peacekeeper under the leadership of the courageous and intelligent Commandant Pat Quillan, in order to save the innocents' inhabitants' bloods.
15 November 1970, London, England, UK
5 August 1963, London, England, UK
11 November 1994, Ystad, Skåne län, Sweden
25 September 1963, Jakobsberg, Stockholms län, Sweden
22 November 1982, Waterford, Ireland
March1948, Kampala, Uganda
20 April 1966, Pretoria, South Africa
10 April 1973, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
7 August 1984, Newcastle, South Africa
23 June 1968, East London, South Africa
1 May 1982, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
6 August 1972, Dublin, Ireland
1988, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
September 21, 2016
The Siege of Jadotville is a fitting tribute to the extraordinary courage and heroism shown by the 35th Battalion 'A' Company, and for that and many reasons beside, the movie deserves a salute.
October 06, 2016
"The Siege of Jadotville" valiantly fights to reclaim pride in a slice of Irish military history, but it seems to have ignored who those Irish were fighting for.
October 06, 2016
By highlighting the bravery of young soldiers at the mercy of external forces, The Siege of Jadotville acts as a powerful tribute.
September 19, 2016
A highly diverting film that rightly honours forgotten - and subsequently mistreated - heroes from Irish history.
October 06, 2016
You can't really fault a film for a lack of ambition if it doesn't pretend to have any in the first place, can you?
October 07, 2016
Good intentions only take us so far, of course. Whenever Smyth moves away from the battlefield, the film is on shaky ground, with the near-comical scenes involving Strong's cowardly subordinate a real low point.
October 19, 2016
If only a little more attention had been paid to something beyond the whiff of gunpowder. Shorn of context, it's like playing a first person shooter in endless survival mode.
September 27, 2016
The battle scenes alone make this solid and well-paced film worth watching.
October 07, 2016
The Siege of Jadotville is dramatically inept and viscerally shocking. Thankfully, we still have history books.
October 08, 2016
Though it doesn't break any new ground, The Siege of Jadotville is a well-crafted piece of filmmaking that investigates the often-contentious relationship between politics and war.
