Age of Heroes (2011) on Netflix
NR20111h 30mActionAdventureDrama
In 1940, Major Jack Jones assembles a commando team and takes Corporal Bob Rains from a military prison. The unit trains for a parachute drop into occupied Norway to seize German radar.
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Plot summary
In 1940, Major Jack Jones is ordered to assemble an eight-man commando unit for a raid into occupied Norway. The radar specialist Roger Rollright is to go with them, meet the agent Beowulf, destroy the German Freyo Station and bring back German radio direction finding equipment in Operation Grendel. Jones collects the insubordinate Corporal Bob Rains from a military prison, and the unit trains in Scotland. In Norway, the commandos are joined by Jensen and by Lieutenant Steinar Mortensen, a Norwegian-born US Marine who knows the terrain. With German forces hunting them, the unit must reach the station and get the technology out.
Cast
- Ewan Rossas Gable
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Age of Heroes (2011)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- The war film is based on the real-life events of the formation of Ian Fleming's 30 Commando unit during the Second World War.
