Many may not know that Ireland maintained its neutrality during World War II, so that any soldiers from that conflict who found themselves on Irish soil had to be kept in captivity until the war's end. For a variety of aeronautical reasons, quite a few Axis and Allied pilots found themselves having to bail out over Ireland. In this film, captives ...
The title of this Anglo-Canadian TV production is tinged with irony. So far as the main characters are concerned, home is a still a long way to go. Set in the months following World War I, the film takes place in a squalid Welsh "halfway" camp, where Canadian soldiers are kept for an interminable period of time before the British government deigns ...
When an African country declares its independence, the results vary from thrilling to catastrophic, depending on what side of revolution one fought with. For Joseph Mahoney (Christopher Cazenove), the last colonial commissioner of the Kariba gorge, it's a combination of both. Suddenly he is faced with the responsibility of keeping order in a ...
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