For Queen and Country

For Queen and Country is a 1989 crime drama film produced by Working Title Films and Zenith, starring Denzel Washington. Washington stars as Reuben James, a Black British former paratrooper, who joined the British Army to escape the poverty of inner city London. Reuben (Washington), although having grown up in London, was born in St. Lucia, West Indies, and joined the British Army of Her Majesty's Armed Forces to escape the poverty of inner city life. He serves with the Parachute Regiment, doing a tour in Northern Ireland for three years at the height of The Troubles in the late 1970s, and fighting in the 1982 Falklands War in the South Atlantic for the remainder of his military career, eventually becoming a war hero himself. Six years...