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The Eagle

2011 · Movie · 114 min

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Scores

  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer39%as of 2021-09-10
  • Rotten Tomatoes average5.3/10as of 2021-09-10
  • Metacritic55/100as of 2024-03-23

What it is

The Eagle is a 2011 epic historical drama film set in Roman Britain directed by Kevin Macdonald, and starring Channing Tatum, Jamie Bell and Donald Sutherland. Adapted by Jeremy Brock from Rosemary Sutcliff's historical adventure novel The Eagle of the Ninth (1954), the film tells the story of a young Roman officer attempting to recover the lost Roman eagle standard of his father's legion in Caledonia.

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Genres
Adventure / Drama / War
Original language
English

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