Eye in the Sky

Overview

A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “kill.” As American pilot Steve Watts is about to engage, a nine-year old girl enters the kill zone, triggering an international dispute reaching the highest levels of US and British government over the moral, political, and personal implications of modern warfare.

Cast

Helen Mirren

Colonel Katherine Powell

Aaron Paul

Steve Watts

Alan Rickman

Lieutenant General Frank Benson

Barkhad Abdi

Jama Farah

Jeremy Northam

Brian Woodale

Phoebe Fox

Carrie Gershon

N/A

Armaan Haggio

Musa Mo'Allim

N/A

Aisha Takow

Alia Mo'Allim

Monica Dolan

Angela Northman

Richard McCabe

George Matherson

Babou Ceesay

Sergeant Mushtaq Saddiq

John Heffernan

Major Harold Webb