Overview
- Regional UK outlets republished positive viewer reactions on Thursday, June 11, 2026, prompting renewed attention to the film's availability on Netflix.
- The Forgotten Battle is a 2020 Dutch World War II film directed by Matthijs van Heijningen Jr that tells the 1944 Battle of the Scheldt through three intersecting perspectives.
- The film stars Susan Radder, Gijs Blom and Jamie Flatters and features Tom Felton, and it was produced with a roughly €14 million budget that made it one of the Netherlands' costliest productions.
- Netflix released the film exclusively and reported about 60.93 million hours viewed in its first 28 days, a figure that placed it among the platform's top 10 non-English language titles.
- Fans on Rotten Tomatoes and regional reporting have described the film as 'gripping' and compared its combat sequences to classics like Saving Private Ryan, helping to raise public awareness of the often-overlooked Battle of the Scheldt.