15 Minutes of War

15 Minutes of War (L'Intervention, 2019) is a French military thriller you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Fred Grivois and starring Olga Kurylenko and Vincent Perez. February 1976: armed Somali rebels seize a school bus with twenty-one French children in Djibouti and drive it to a no-man's-land at the border, with the Somali National Army lined up behind the wire.

Negotiations collapse within hours. Captain Gerval is handed a mission with no fallback: five snipers, one simultaneous shot each, zero margin. His squad sets up in the open while the clock runs down and the children's chances narrow with every delay. The film maps each tactical decision in near-real time, making the build-up rawer than the actual shots.

Based on a true operation that stayed classified until the late 1990s, this is less about heroics and more about the brutal arithmetic of a hostage rescue. Stream 15 Minutes of War (2019) online on iFILM.