Alex Garland and former Navy SEAL Ray Mendoza recreate a platoon’s experience of the Iraq War in an astonishingly immersive, harrowing combat experience – filmed locally in Bovingdon Airfield Studios.

In 2006, an American unit sneaks into insurgent civilian territory to set up sniper cover – but one careless moment has them exposed to the enemy. With support dead or absent, fire coming from all sides, and comrades dying rapidly, evacuation becomes a hellish, minute-by-minute struggle. A visionary with larger science-fiction projects, writer-director Alex Garland (Ex Machina, Civil War) narrows his focus to one small episode of modern war, recaptured with an unprecedented level of realistic detail, with no smooth cinematic distractions. He and Mendoza, his veteran co-creator, make us live every moment of the relentless, unpredictable terror that it offers, making for an experience as exciting as it is disturbing.