Beasts Of No Nation

violence

There is strong bloody violence throughout as soldiers shoot people. In one scene soldiers place grenades into prisoners' mouths and subsequently blow them up. In other scenes child soldiers hack a prisoner to death with machetes as part of an obedience test and kick a young girl repeatedly. There are also dead bodies and blood in the aftermath of violence, and in one scene characters look at the burnt remains of a person, with the ribcage partially exposed and the mouth still wide open.

language

There is use of strong language ('f**k', 'motherf**ker'), and milder terms including 'shit' and 'butt'.

drugs

There are several portrayals of cannabis joint smoking, often by child soldiers. In one scene an adult rebel commander places resin, possibly heroin, on silver foil, heats it and inhales the resulting fumes. In another scene a boy extracts the gunpowder from a bullet, burns it and inhales the remaining substance.

sexual violence and sexual threat

In one sequence a man rapes a screaming woman, and during the assault another character shoots the victim fatally in the head. In another sequence there is an implication that the boy's military leader sexually assaults him, but the activity is not shown on screen.

additional issues: There is occasional male full frontal nudity and breast nudity, and scenes of threat.

strong bloody violence, strong language, drug use

Classified Date:

05/10/2015

Version:

2D

Use:

Cinema

Distributor:

Artificial Eye Film Co. Ltd

violence

There is strong bloody violence throughout as combatants and non-combatants alike are shot, hacked to death or blown up with grenades - often with casual indifference. Stronger moments of violence include a prisoner being hacked to death with machetes as part of an obedience test and a woman being shot in the head with an assault rifle at point blank range.

language

There are approximately twenty-five uses of strong language ('f**k' and 'motherf**ker').

drugs

There are several portrayals of cannabis joint smoking, more often than not by child soldiers. In one scene an adult rebel commander places resin, possibly heroin, on silver foil, heats it and inhales the resulting fumes.

additional issues: Other issues include natural male nudity and some mild sex references.

strong bloody violence, sexual violence, language, drug misuse

Classified Date:

27/09/2021

Version:

2D

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

violence

There is strong bloody violence throughout as soldiers shoot people. In one scene soldiers place grenades into prisoners' mouths and subsequently blow them up. In other scenes child soldiers hack a prisoner to death with machetes as part of an obedience test and kick a young girl repeatedly. There are also dead bodies and blood in the aftermath of violence, and in one scene characters look at the burnt remains of a person, with the ribcage partially exposed and the mouth still wide open.

language

There is use of strong language ('f**k', 'motherf**ker'), and milder terms including 'shit' and 'butt'.

drugs

There are several portrayals of cannabis joint smoking, often by child soldiers. In one scene an adult rebel commander places resin, possibly heroin, on silver foil, heats it and inhales the resulting fumes. In another scene a boy extracts the gunpowder from a bullet, burns it and inhales the remaining substance.

sexual violence and sexual threat

In one sequence a man rapes a screaming woman, and during the assault another character shoots the victim fatally in the head. In another sequence there is an implication that the boy's military leader sexually assaults him, but the activity is not shown on screen.

additional issues: There is occasional male full frontal nudity and breast nudity, and scenes of threat.

strong bloody violence, strong language, drug use

Classified Date:

17/09/2015

Version:

2D

Use:

VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

Netflix Services UK Limited

violence

There is strong bloody violence throughout as combatants and non-combatants alike are shot, hacked to death or blown up with grenades - often with casual indifference. Stronger moments of violence include a prisoner being hacked to death with machetes as part of an obedience test and a woman being shot in the head with an assault rifle at point blank range.

language

There are approximately twenty-five uses of strong language ('f**k' and 'motherf**ker').

drugs

There are several portrayals of cannabis joint smoking, more often than not by child soldiers. In one scene an adult rebel commander places resin, possibly heroin, on silver foil, heats it and inhales the resulting fumes.

additional issues: Other issues include natural male nudity and some mild sex references.

Classified Date:

09/10/2015

Version:

2D

Use:

Cinema

Distributor:

Artificial Eye Film Co. Ltd

Classified Date:

27/09/2021

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Classified Date:

27/09/2021

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Classified Date:

27/09/2021

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Classified Date:

27/09/2021

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Classified Date:

27/09/2021

Use:

Physical media + VOD/Streaming

Distributor:

Sony Pictures Home Entertainment

Classified date

27/09/2021
Language

English

Director(s)

Cary Joji Fukunaga

Production Year

2015

Genre(s)

Drama, War

Approx. running minutes

137m

Cast

Abraham Attah, Emmanuel Affadzi, Idris Elba, Richard Pepple