Genres: Drama | War

Story line: Dartmoor,1914: To his wife's dismay farmer Narracott buys a thoroughbred horse rather than a plough animal, but when his teenaged son Albert trains the horse and calls him Joey, the two becoming inseparable. When his harvest fails, the farmer has to sell Joey to the British cavalry and he is shipped to France where, after a disastrous offensive he is captured by the Germans and changes hands twice more before he is found, caught in the barbed wire in No Man's Land four years later and freed. He is returned behind British lines where Albert, now a private, has been temporarily blinded by gas, but still recognizes his beloved Joey. However, as the Armistice is declared Joey is set to be auctioned off. After all they have been through will Albert and Joey return home together?

Cast
(In credits order.)

    Jeremy Irvine as Albert Narracott
    Emily Watson as Rose Narracott
    Peter Mullan as Ted Narracott
    Niels Arestrup as Grandfather
    David Thewlis as Lyons
    Tom Hiddleston as Captain James Nicholls
    Benedict Cumberbatch as Major Jamie Stewart
    Celine Buckens as Emilie
    Toby Kebbell as Colin, the South Shields soldier
    Patrick Kennedy as Lieutenant Charlie Waverly

Trailer:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhueHIXbTF4[/youtube]