Drummer Boy
Directed by Ben Smallbone, Joel Smallbone
As America’s fight for independence begins, a young drummer boy, an enslaved woman, and a divided family each search for freedom in a world built to deny it. With music carrying hope through battle and loss, Drummer Boy turns the Revolution into a deeply human story of faith, forgiveness, and the belief that no person is born to live in chains or be forgotten. From TMDB
77 reactions from 2 sources (Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Nov 4, 2026 · last updated Nov 5, 2026 · How this works
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Drummer Boy is a 2026 war romance music film, directed by Ben Smallbone and Joel Smallbone, starring Joel Smallbone, Beth Easdown and Kenneth Barry.
- 72 people have posted about this film on Bluesky, Lemmy
- posts span Dec 7, 2023 to Nov 4, 2026
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60 of 77 · most liked first[GLEN enters, crosses to center of room, flips folding chair around, sits in it backwards and rolls up his sleeves] “We’re not doing this again this year. Any of it. Your takes on DIE HARD, “Baby It’s Cold Outside,” “The Little Drummer Boy,” Hallmark movie cliches, they’re done. They’re over. Stop.
neutral · AI labelView post →Did you know that the best part of Stop Making Sense, a track from a collaboration between Byrne and Twyla Tharp into an afrobeat adaptation of a Dadaist poem, isn’t even in the movie? They had to cut it because David playing Little Drummer Boy during the drum break would have killed people.
neutral · AI labelView post →#LetsDoIt25 Day 12 'Drummer Boy' from the film 'Strike Up The Band' (1940). The magical pairing of Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland with Paul Whiteman & Orchestra and the MGM chorus. youtu.be/ghj7XY5L87Y?...
neutral · AI labelView post →Share a Christmas Movie🎁🎄🎅🏽🥁 The Little Drummer Boy
neutral · AI labelView post →I realize that I'm not the target audience, but the trailer for that Angel Films Drummer Boy movie had me cackling
negative · AI labelView post →So last night was a bit of a festive night for @ageddragonflame.bsky.social and I. We watched some christmas shorts like Penguin Christmas Caper, Frosty and Little Drummer Boy. But the main film we saw was Gremlins 2. Let’s just say, that was such a wild movie, with a wilder ending xDDD
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand. -Mushrooms -Faces of Death -Little Drummer Boy
neutral · AI labelView post →Emmett Otter is a more recent addition from my wife, but the other three have been staples forever. Also, Little Drummer Boy. Non-stop motion, Christmas Story is a mainstay. It was filmed in the town where my late grandpa grew up, so it was always fun to hear him talk about the places. Beyond that, not as much tradition but still frequent: Charlie Brown Christmas, Frosty the Snowman, Santa Clause, and some variety of "Christmas Carol" (usually Mickey or Muppets, but not always). My family…
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching Pee Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special from 1988! A Christmas show that has Grace Jones singing Little Drummer Boy can't really be missed. www.imdb.com/title/tt0251...
neutral · AI labelView post →“Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand.” Food - salmon. I have tried it every which way, and I just cannot. Movie - Signs with Mel Gibson. What a terrible movie. Song - Little Drummer Boy by Bob Seager.
neutral · AI labelView post →God=John McClane Mary=Holly Genarro Joseph=That weaselly sales guy that gets shot Innkeeper=Takagi Angel spreading the news=The dickhead reporter Heat Miser=Hans Gruber Little Drummer Boy=Karl Three Wise Men=Chief Robinson and the 2 FBI guys Baby Jesus=Officer Powell See? Christmas movie
neutral · AI labelView post →Well. I think that's it. DONE. I'm sure at some point I'll find something else to screw with, but for now I'm putting a fork in #ThreeWiseMen and now starting to wonder what the hell to do with a Christmas spec that is very not a Hallmark movie. Think "Little Drummer Boy" meets "The Hangover."
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm gonna write a Christmas movie where it turns out the Christmas Shoes kid IS The Little Drummer Boy. After his mom dies, he becomes unstuck in time, finding himself as the drummer in Jerusalem's first rock band.
neutral · AI labelView post →I just lost Little Drummer Boy during pre-Wicked movie trailer. Be careful out there, kids.
neutral · AI labelView post →John is like the LIttle Drummer Boy. He turns up to the party, much as the LDB turned up to see Baby Jesus, with no gift. By the end of the movie he has gifted most of the party goers their lives with the rat-a-tat-tat of a machine gun... or his parompa-pom-pom if you prefer.
neutral · AI labelView post →Time for another Regal Mystery Movie. Hoping this is I Play Rocky. If it’s Drummer Boy, I’m walking out because I don’t do Angel movies. As usual with these screenings, the trailers will be shared after the film.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Hadestown movie was good fun, but I’ve never seen a longer and weirder set of trailers before a movie. Drummer Boy…appears to be a jingoistic Revolutionary War Christian Pop musical shot like a Creed video.
negative · AI labelView post →Set to start filming in Ireland (Dublin/Wicklow area) later this month, Angel Studios' DRUMMER BOY, a feature film based on the KING + COUNTRY song and stage show, with band member brothers Joel and Ben Smallbone producing and directing. Richard L. Ramsey (UNSUNG HERO) wrote the script.
neutral · AI labelView post →Like where is White Christmas? Holiday Inn? Even Meet Me in St. Louis which isn’t a “Christmas movie” but it introduces an iconic Christmas song. Zero rankin bass specials outside of the major ones. No Little Drummer Boy? No Jack Frost? No Nestor?
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand. Caviar Requiem for a Dream The Little Drummer Boy
neutral · AI labelView post →Introduce yourself using only one food you refuse to eat, one movie you’ll never watch again, and one song you can’t stand Eel Viking Destiny Carrie Underwood's Little Drummer Boy
neutral · AI labelView post →June 8, 1940: Judy Garland prerecorded "Drummer Boy" for the film "Strike Up The Band." Listen: www.thejudyroom.com/songs/Drumme... Filmography Page www.thejudyroom.com/filmography/... #judygarland #mickeyrooney #strikeuptheband #gershwin #thejudyroom @mgmmusicals.bsky.social
neutral · AI labelView post →I wrote a Christmas movie but of course me being me I made sure to go opposite of a Hallmark movie: "it's LITTLE DRUMMER BOY meets THE HANGOVER." 🤣
neutral · AI labelView post →Me and my friends were so hyped for MISERY in 1990 because the TV commercials were edited to the beat of a creepy (well, creepier) version of "Little Drummer Boy," selling it as a super-dark Christmas movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Tonight I watched my favorite Xmas movie Little Drummer Boy. Growing up it always said to me “Your art and creativity are a greater gift than all the riches of kings.” And I still see that as the message. Plus I love the bad guy, he’s so funny.
positive · AI labelView post →"Come in and know me better man". What's your favourite Christmas: Song: Peace On Earth/Little Drummer Boy - Bing & Bowie Film: It's a Wonderful Life Food: Christmas Pudding Carol: O Come, All Ye Faithful
neutral · AI labelView post →ALERT FOR LDB PLAYERS: AVOID ALL ADS IN MOVIE THEATRES Fathom plays ads on most US screens, and the show For King and Country — A DRUMMER BOY CHRISTMAS LIVE has ads there, on social media and tv/radio sites. They are a faith based band, so beware those sites, too.
neutral · AI labelView post →Holiday Season - Wakko’s Wish (plus the Animaniacs rendition of Little Drummer Boy, lots of nostalgia for me) Comfort Movie - Grosse Pointe Blank (I love the absurdity of it)
neutral · AI labelView post →When I saw a film called "Drummer Boy" I hoped it was about when David Bowie and Bing Crosby worked together. That would be a fascinating film.
neutral · AI labelView post →I had to find it. I'm wired like that. I'm also kind enough to tell others i regret it. Don't do it. (Title of movie is a big stretch - "Drummer Boy")
negative · AI labelView post →Did Angel Studio really make a movie around the terrible Christmas song, Little Drummer Boy?
neutral · AI labelView post →Saw part of an ad for a movie called "Drummer Boy". As someone who reenacted the Revolutionary War as a child, and in fact as a drummer, I was intrigued... until he swiped up a musket with his foot and immediately fired it 🤣🤣
negative · AI labelView post →Movie you’ve watched more than six times with a gif. Hard mode: No Star Wars/Trek, LOTR, Marvel This one is kinda cheating cause it’s on every year but I still love all those stop motion Ranken Bass movies. We just saw Little Drummer Boy not too long ago
neutral · AI labelView post →Define "about Christmas." Because broadly speaking by that logic at face value: Santa Clause is Coming to Town isn't a christmas movie. Or the Little Drummer Boy. Or Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. Or Frosty the Snowman. Or A Christmas Carol.
neutral · AI labelView post →25 Favourite Christmas… #23 Carol: The Cherry Tree Carol Song: Drummer Boy by Justin Bieber and Busta Rhymes Movie: Scrooge (1935)
neutral · AI labelView post →By my grandma's suggestion, we're watching The Little Drummer Boy. I haven't seen this movie since i was a single digit age
neutral · AI labelView post →Song: Little Drummer Boy Film: Elf Tradition: elf on a shelf Food: green bean casserole
neutral · AI labelView post →Has anyone watched the old school Little Drummer Boy movie recently? It’s a lot. Within the first ten minutes, there’s taxation politics, refugees, kidnapping, animal cruelty, human trafficking, parents killed *in front of their children* by thrown daggers, and village burning. I shit you not.
neutral · AI labelView post →Who else loved and was mildly traumatized by “The Little Drummer Boy” stop-action film?
neutral · AI labelView post →The Little Drummer Boy: Probably the most overtly religious movie on this list and its animation feels much worse This is only 25min and is designed completely around the music piece. In that regard they nailed it. Actually found it wholesome. I have been brainwashed to love Christmas Music/movies
positive · AI labelView post →#qotd What's your favorite Christmas movie? For me, it's between White Christmas and the Little Drummer Boy.
neutral · AI labelView post →that 1968 Drummer Boy film was also a traumatic joke of a holiday special!!
negative · AI labelView post →Little Drummer Boy 😀, that is also one of my favorite Christmas songs. I also like the movie🙂
positive · AI labelView post →I swear I remember a TV ad for this when it was released that was set to 'Little Drummer Boy', so this has always been something of a Christmas movie in my brain.
neutral · AI labelView post →There’s this old American stop-motion film called The Little Drummer Boy where they show the birth of Jesus, and Mary looks very white while Joseph and every other character is [an American in the 1970s view of] a Middle Easterner.
neutral · AI labelView post →Should rename the film: Little Drummer Boy: the parumpumpum kid
neutral · AI labelView post →Drummer Boy begins its North American theatrical rollout this Friday, November 6, debuting in 2,840 theaters. www.the-numbers.com/movie/Drumme... #BoxOffice #drummerboy @thenumbers.bsky.social
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neutral · AI labelView post →During the American Revolutionary War, two brothers find themselves fighting on opposing sides, dividing their family. Their lives intersect with those of young drummer boy and an enslaved woman Emmaline. filmq.com.au/movie/drumme... #DrummerBoy #BenSmallbone #JoelDavidSmallbone #RialtoDistribution
neutral · AI labelView post →The Interview: Ben Smallbone, co-director of new film ‘Drummer Boy’. @sightmagazine.bsky.social #BenSmallbone #DrummerBoy #RevolutionaryWar #JoelSmallbone #forKINGandCOUNTRY #forgiveness sightmagazine.com.au/features/the...
neutral · AI labelView post →Conservative studio's new movie 'Drummer Boy' might shock its MAGA fanbase www.alternet.org/drummer-boy-...
neutral · AI labelView post →DRUMMER BOY, directed and produced by King + Country brothers Joel, Luke and Ben Smallbone, comes out November 6 and whether it's a "Christmas movie" or not seems to change depending on who is talking about it. (It mostly seems to be a historical war musical.) www.fox4news.com/video/fmc-s5...
neutral · AI labelView post →Alexandria’s Charles Esten Returns to Revolutionary Roots in New Film “Drummer Boy” thezebra.org/2026/10/12/c...
neutral · AI labelView post →Watch the new trailer for 'Drummer Boy,' an action-musical from four-time Grammy winners For King and Country. "Set during the American Revolutionary War, the film follows two brothers on opposite sides of the conflict." In theaters November 6th. [📽 via Angel Studios] #DrummerBoy
neutral · AI labelView post →WHO GREENLIT A MOVIE ABOUT THE LITTLE DRUMMER BOY? WHO! EXPLAIN YOURSELF.
negative · AI labelView post →Did anyone else see a trailer for an insane winter war movie called Drummer Boy (yes, after the Christmas song)? Our entire theater was cracking up, but I can't find it online anywhere.
neutral · AI labelView post →Directors Ben & Joel David Smallbone bring an American Revolutionary War film to the screen with DRUMMER BOY. #AngelStudios #DrummerBoy #CinemaCon2026
neutral · AI labelView post →youtu.be/wJFcQiixYFg?... My all time fav Dragon movie I watched as a kid and now that I have the DVD I watch it almost monthly. The same people that made Frosty the Snowman and The Little Drummer Boy. Rankin/Bass you will live forever in my mind and heart with this beloved Dragon movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →Christmas movie viewings so far this year: - Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer - The Little Drummer Boy - The Cricket on the Hearth - 'Twas the Night Before Christmas - The Year Without a Santa Claus - The First Christmas - Frosty's Winter Wonderland - Rudolph's Shiny New Year
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