The Mark of Cain (2007) on Netflix
Shane Gulliver and Mark Tate, childhood friends in the Northdale Rifles, arrive in Basra. When a bomb kills their commander, the unit is ordered to arrest suspects in a nearby village.
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The Northdale Rifles, a British regiment, deploys to Basra. Its commander, Major Godber, tells the soldiers to treat Iraqis with respect and warns that anyone who mistreats them without cause will carry the Mark of Cain. Among the troops are privates Shane Gulliver and Mark Tate, friends since childhood. After patrols, including one in which a suspected petrol smuggler from Kuwait is beaten in public to stop a crowd from lynching him, the unit is ambushed and Godber is killed while trying to pull a panicking Territorial Army soldier from his vehicle. The soldiers are then told the insurgents came from a nearby village and arrest several Iraqis there, holding them for collection by the Royal Military Police as anger over Godber's death runs through the unit.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Mark of Cain (2007)
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- Marchant said the film was inspired by real-life incidents, including one in which a soldier from the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers took trophy photographs of Iraqi men tied to a forklift and then tried to have the film roll developed.
- Channel 4 postponed the film twice: from January 2007 to 5 April because of the then-ongoing court martial over the killing of Baha Mousa, and again to 17 May over concerns it could influence Iran's treatment of captured Royal Navy personnel. It finally aired on 12 April 2007.
- The film's title comes from Royal Irish Regiment Colonel Tim Collins's 2003 eve-of-battle speech in Iraq, though Collins disavowed the film because its broadcast coincided with the 2007 Iranian seizure of Royal Navy personnel.
