Eagle Wings: An Air Force Story

[Available May 17 on various VOD platforms.] When a newly married, strong-willed Nigerian Air Force fighter pilot (Enyinna Nwigwe), whose devoted and anxious wife (Patience Ujah) is pregnant, finds himself in enemy territory in northern Nigeria after his plane crashes due to a mechanical failure and hiding with paranoid, skeptical villagers from a ruthless rebel general (Uzee Usman) in Paul Apel Papel's gritty, factually inspired, action-packed, suspenseful, bullet-riddled, violent, 127-minute, 2021 thriller, Air Force colleagues (Yakubu Mohammed, Femi Jacobs, Francis Duru, Keppy Ekpeyong Bassey, et al.) plan a rescue mission to attack the insurgent (Funky Mallam, Abdul U. Zada, et al.) stronghold and to save the pilot and then go after a villager (Jamila Ibrahim) who the terrorists have kidnapped and taken hostage.
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