THE SIEGE OF JADOTVILLE tells the true story of the 1961 siege of a 150-member Irish U.N. battalion under Commander Patrick Quinlan by 3,000 Congolese troops, led by French and Belgian mercenaries working for mining companies. Jamie Dornan plays the Irish commander Patrick Quinlan while Guillaume Canet plays a French commander Falques. Now Streaming on Netflix.
I came across an excellent movie on Netflicks last night, Jadotville.
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Based on the siege of Jadotville in the Congo 1961, it was one of the best and most realistic war movies I have seen.
Even better, on reading various factual accounts including Wikipedia it stuck very rigidly to the facts. Of course, in remaining factual it obviously lacks the hyperbole and extravaganza of fictional movies portraying battle scenes.
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