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Movie Name: Landship
Directed by: Callum Burn
Starring: Vin Hawke, Sam Dowdy, Matthew Canny, David Dobson, Jeffrey Mundell, Daniel Cornish, Steve Healey, Micky David, Jack Sherlock, Ricky Oakley, Nadav Burstein
Genre: War, Action, History
Running Time: 89 Minutes
Release Date: June 26, 2026
Rating: –
Languages: English
Production House: Tin Hat Productions
Budget: $- million
Stranded and slowly sinking into the fetid mud of Passchendaele, the crew of a British WW1 Tank fight for their lives against an insidious and determined enemy.
Landship: Movie Overview
From the producers of Battle Over Britain comes a World War One survival epic, based on an incredible true story of the Battle of Passchendaele, 1917.
For three years the great war has been waging, and the two armies find themselves entrenched along the four-hundred-mile Western Front. At the start of a pivotal allied offensive to break the stalemate, the nine-man crew of British Battle Tank F41 ‘Fray Bentos’ sets out to destroy a series of heavily defended German bunkers. Advancing across no-man’s-land, all seems lost when the tank becomes trapped in a giant crater within only a few yards of enemy lines. However, determined not to perish amongst the fetid mud and poison smog of the battlefield, the soldiers must rally together to fight for survival against starvation, shellshock, and relentless gunfire.
With Landship, director Callum Burn has created a visceral and compelling war drama, and pulled off a remarkable technical achievement. Made on a budget of just £330,000, an honourable mention must go to the special effects team whose work plunges the viewer into a totally believable and terrifying depiction of this historical battle.
The sound design too is extraordinary: lengthy, almost unbearably tense silences stretch out before being punctured abruptly by gunfire, explosions and screams. This is a truly immersive representation of combat, capturing the claustrophobia and camaraderie of tank warfare.
The ensemble’s performances as the real-life heroes of F41 are humane and nuanced, creating a sense of intimacy, while helping us to remember that these men were only nine of approximately 8.7 million who served in the British Army during World War I. The scope of their sacrifice remains unfathomable.
