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75 minute documentary that tells the story of Bruce Dickinson and his Skunkworks era band getting flown over to play a gig in under seige Sarajevo in the height of the Bosnian war by an enterprising British Army major.
Thankfully there is footage of the gig, the doc would be a lot poorer without it, and most of the main players in the scheme are represented. It's clear how much of an impact the experience has had on everyone involved. Goes without saying for the Bosnians who lived through it - but Bruce and two thirds of his band (the guitarist for whatever reason does not appear) are clearly still affected by what they saw 20 years later.
The film features various people who were able to attend, including people from the support bands, but I wish there had been a little more time spent establishing who all these guys were. There's a lot of people introduced in a very short space of time and maybe just an extra 5 or 10 minutes spent on their backgrounds would really have helped.
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