The War Below

Decent enough low budget war drama about the soldiers who had to do the underground trench digging in World War One. This film makes you realise what an important role that it was too.

If you liked Beneath Hill 60, this is a movie for you. Authentic and based on a true event. There is not many WW1 movies, and not this well made. So enjoy a bit of history in making.

Nothing like a good war film to fill a Sunday afternoon during lockdown. What this team manage to accomplish underground during these deserves respect. I was engrossed throughout the film and enjoyed every second. Avoiding spoilers I'd say this, it's one of those films you'll watch again in a couple of weeks.

Some good bits for a B movie but oh the cliches. Five miners? Haig had battalions of them digging mines from 1915. He was very keen on the idea . General Plumer was the one in charge of the massive mines at Messines . This shows how great the movie 1917 was . .The generals were not the donkeys this film shows .Haig had hordes of miners working even Canadians and Anzacs The main miner says ' we have to go back We are the only ones who can do it ' Don't make laugh . Theyd been blowing up Germans since 1915 .. And why are British going over the top with no bayonets ??

I am sorry but I had to turn it off. Any one who knows anything about WW1 would know there is no truth to this story what so ever!! During WW1 miners were recruited from the start of the war as part of the regular army. This film was apparently set on the Somme (The bit I actually watched) where some miners were recruited to blow up a German strong hold!! Why would they not use the hundreds of miners that had already dug under no man's land a year before in real life and planted the huge mines that started the Somme offensive?? Or even the miners that did exactly the same nearly 2 years before that in the Ypres salient. This could of been so much better and is disrespectful to those miners that lost their lives carrying out these tasks.. . Did the same director have anything to do with the film Armegedon??

First of all, there were 19 large explosions at Messines, not one cataclysmic one. Secondly, it's not true that 10,000 German soldiers were killed in the explosions - this utterly grotesque figure has been touted to promote this event as having been spectacularly deadly. The number of Germans killed by the explosions could not have exceeded 1,000 and was probably around 500. The 10,000 figure was for all the Germans missing on the day of the battle, and 7,200 of these missing were later found to have been captured by the British forces. These massive explosions had a big effect in stunning and frightening the Germans, who surrendered in large numbers, but they were not as deadly as one would imagine. What was definitely deadly was the mass artillery barrage from the British forces which followed the mine explosions - this was both accurate and highly destructive.

This film is based on the true story of William Hackett (Sam Hazeldine ) a miner during WWI. The British were losing because the Germans built their bunkers deep. The only way to get to them would be digging tunnels. William Hackett, rejected three times for service, lead a group of miners under German bunkers. I enjoyed this film more than 1917. Good war film. Guide: No sex or nudity. Didn't catch any swearing.