Dirty War (film)
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| Written by | Daniel Percival Lizzie Mickery |
| Directed by | Daniel Percival |
| Starring | Kameal Nisha Bisnauthsingh Paul Antony-Barber Louise Breckon-Richards Shamshad Akhtar Louise Delamere Ewan Stewart Alastair Galbraith Koel Purie |
| Country of origin | United Kingdom |
| Original language(s) | English |
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| Producer(s) | Luke Alkin |
| Running time | 90 minutes |
| Budget | £2,500,000 GBP |
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| Original release | 24 September 2004 |
Dirty War is a 2004 BBC, in association with HBO Films, made-for-TV movie thriller/drama about a terrorist attack on Central London, written by Lizzie Mickery and Daniel Percival. It was originally broadcast on BBC One on 24 September 2004, on HBO on 24 January 2005, and the first time on American broadcast television on PBS on 23 February 2005. It won a BAFTA Award for Best New Director (Fiction), Daniel Percival.
The film opens with a June 2003 quote from Eliza Manningham-Buller, the director general (DG) of MI5: "It will only be a matter of time before a crude chemical, biological, or radiological (CBRN) attack is launched on a major western city" and provides the basic premise for the film.
The film follows the journey of radioactive material, hidden in vegetable oil containers, from Habiller, Turkey, which is approximately 210 kilometres (130 mi) west of Istanbul, through Sofia, Bulgaria, onwards to Deptford, then to an East End Indian food takeaway restaurant, and finally to a rented house in Willesden, where the radioactive material and other components are assembled into a dirty bomb.
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