The Eagle Movie

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The Eagle is a 2011 epic historical drama film set in Roman Britain directed by Kevin Macdonald, and starring Channing TatumJamie Bell and Donald Sutherland. Adapted byJeremy Brock from Rosemary Sutcliff's historical adventure novel The Eagle of the Ninth(1954), the film tells the story of a young Roman officer searching to recover the lostRoman eagle standard of his father's legion in the northern part of Great Britain. The story is based on the Ninth Spanish Legion's supposed disappearance in Britain.

The film, an Anglo-American co-production, was released in the U.S. and Canada on 11 February 2011, and was released in the United Kingdom and Ireland on 25 March 2011.


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