The Human Shield

The Human Shield is a 1991 low-budget American action film from B-movie film studio Cannon Films. It was directed by Ted Post and written by Mann Rubin and stars Michael Dudikoff and Tommy Hinkley. It is about a former government agent who must save his diabetic brother from Iraqi abductors.

The film is initially set during the Iran–Iraq War. A colonel of the U.S. Marines has been hired to train the Iraqi troops, but he disagrees with the targeting of civilians by the Iraqi Army and he unsuccessfully attacks an Iraqi military leader. During the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait, the colonel's brother is captured and held hostage in order to lure the insubordinate colonel into a trap.