Amazon Sets U.S. Premiere for The Last Post

All six episodes of the original drama The Last Post, which comes from BAFTA Award winner Peter Moffat (The Night Of), are slated for release on Amazon’s Prime Video in the U.S. on December 22.

The Last Post is set during the social and political unrest of the mid-’60s in Aden, Yemen, and centers on the lives of a unit of Royal Military Police officers and their families. An Amazon original in the U.S., the drama is made by Bonafide Films and The Forge Entertainment for BBC One in the U.K.

The series stars Jessica Raine (Call the Midwife), Jessie Buckley (War and Peace), Jeremy Neumark Jones (Denial), Amanda Drew (Broadchurch), Ben Miles (Coupling) and Stephen Campbell Moore (History Boys, The Go-Between). The Last Post is executive produced for Bonafide Films by Margery Bone and Elwen Rowlands, and by George Faber and Mark Pybus for The Forge Entertainment. Matthew Read executive produced for BBC One. The series is directed by Jonny Campbell (The Casual Vacancy) and Miranda Bowen (Women in Love).