Land of Mine

2015 • 101 minutes

About this movie

As World War II comes to an end, a group of young German POWs are captured by the Danish army and forced to defuse and clear 2 million land mines from the Danish coast. With little to no training, the boys soon discover that the war is far from over. Inspired by true events, Land Of Mine exposes the untold story about the young men who faced overwhelming odds in a post-war world.

Ratings and reviews

This movie is based off of actual events that occurred. Being that I'm Jewish I should be pleased of the treatment of these children. I'm actually appalled, yes, they were German, but they were children. Not evry German want what happened. I found the content very well play, a definite pull on the heart strings.

This film is a Powerful Drama about war's vindictiveness on the undeserving as German boys facing the consequences of being conscripted surrounded by hatred by their own government's actions. The result is a moving tragedy of those boys and a warder who found his own humanity again.

i love it the story makes me cry but i learnt to work hard after that Martin Zandvliet’s Land of Mine is one of those war films that grabs you by the throat and doesn’t let go — not with gunfire or heroic speeches, but with a slow, grinding dread that feels like a punch to the gut. Set in Denmark in the immediate aftermath of World War II, the story follows a group of young, scrawny German POWs — some barely old enough to shave — forced to clear millions of landmines the Nazis left buried along