Director: Nicholas Winter
Deep inside occupied France, a single Nazi bunker holds a French resistance fighter whose capture threatens to unravel an entire underground network. War Blade sends British operative Banks in to get her out before that happens.
What is War Blade about?
Cut off from backup and badly outnumbered, Banks has to rely on a small team of allies to breach a fortified position defended by an alert garrison. Every stage of the extraction goes sideways — the entry point is compromised, reinforcements arrive faster than expected, and the group is forced to improvise a new escape route under fire. Director Nicholas Winter keeps the mission confined to a tight window of time, building pressure less through spectacle than through the sense that one wrong move ends the operation for good.
Cast & crew
Joseph Millson leads as Banks, with Ronan Summers, Ade Dimberline, Rebecca Scott, and Rachel Giddens filling out the resistance network and the soldiers standing in his way.
Context & significance
War Blade is a British production directed by Nicholas Winter, working in the tradition of small-unit World War II thrillers built around a single objective rather than a sweeping campaign. Shot on UK locations standing in for occupied France, it keeps its scope narrow — one bunker, one rescue, one night — which lets the tension come from geography and timing rather than large-scale battle sequences.
Where & how to watch
War Blade streams on K-Time with a free account login, including a Persian dub for viewers who want to follow the mission in Farsi. The platform's Farsi-first interface makes it simple for diaspora audiences to find and queue up wartime thrillers like this one alongside the rest of the catalog.