Rise of the Footsoldier is a British crime film released on 7 September 2007. The third production from BAFTA Award-nominated director Julian Gilbey, it is a gangster film based on the true story of the Rettendon murders and the autobiography of Carlton Leach, a football hooligan of the infamous Inter City Firm (ICF) who became a powerful figure of the English underworld. The sequel Rise Of The Footsoldier Part II followed in 2015 and the prequel, Rise of the Footsoldier 3: The Beginning, came in 2017