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Please note this film is rated 12 and therefore may only be partly suitable for classroom use.

Genre: Drama, war

Certificate: 12

Year of release: 2011

Length: 2 hours 15 minutes

Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Michael Morpurgo's First World War drama.

Dartmoor, 1914: when Ted Narracott buys a thoroughbred horse for his farm, his son Albert soon bonds with the animal who he names Joey. However, when the harvest fails and war is declared on Germany, Ted is forced to sell Joey to the British Army. Albert enlists but can he and Joey survive to be reunited?

Director: Steven Spielberg

Starring: Emily Watson, David Thewlis, Jeremy Irvine, Peter Mullan, Tom Hiddleston, Benedict Cumberbatch.

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