Watch The Teaser For ‘Beasts Of No Nation’ – A Netflix Original Film

Beasts of No Nation‘ is Netflix’s first foray into original films. The film, based on Uzodinma Iweala’s 2005 novel of the same name, follows a young West African boy (Abraham Attah) who is forced to join a unit of mercenary fighters when a civil war tears his family apart. The boy is put to the test by the group’s Warlord (Idris Elba) who takes the boy under his wing, and molds him into a soldier.

Beasts Of No Nations‘ is scheduled to begin streaming on Oct. 16