The Kill Team (2019) on Netflix
R20191h 27mActionBiographyDramaThrillerWar
In Afghanistan in 2009, Andrew Briggman serves in a platoon led by Sergeant Deeks, who vows to find whoever killed 24 American soldiers. Ordered to hurt a captured man, Briggman refuses.
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Plot summary
Andrew Briggman is a young soldier in the U.S. Army serving in Afghanistan in 2009. Staff Sergeant Wallace is killed by an IED on a raid, and Sergeant Deeks takes over the platoon, promising to hunt down those responsible for the deaths of 24 soldiers. Briggman gives him dates and locations of past IED attacks. When a wounded man is captured and suspected of planting a bomb, Briggman refuses Deeks' command to hurt him. The platoon begins raiding civilian villages, and Briggman writes to his father, William Briggman, about what he has seen. Deeks and the men grow wary, believing someone in the unit has turned on them.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Kill Team (2019)
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SPOILER
The closing credits note that in 2010 five U.S. Army soldiers were charged over the murder of civilians; Specialist Adam Winfield, depicted as Briggman, pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and was sentenced to three years, and he testified against Staff Sergeant Gibbs, called Deeks in the film, who was sentenced to life imprisonment.- The Kill Team is a fictionalized adaptation of the Maywand District murders, which Krauss had already explored in a 2013 documentary of the same name.
