Introduction Four celebrated actors explore their grandparents’ extraordinary wartime stories Outline Hollywood star Toby Jones delves into the remarkable WII stories of his grandparents. My Grandparents’ War Series You can find a full index of My Grandparents’ War Series 02 here. Production & Filming Details
Introduction Four celebrated actors explore their grandparents’ extraordinary wartime stories Outline Emeli explores her grandparents’ stories, including the fight for independence in Africa. My Grandparents’ War Series You can find a full index of My Grandparents’ War Series 02 here. Production & Filming Details
Introduction Four celebrated actors explore their grandparents’ extraordinary wartime stories Outline Keira embarks on an emotional journey of discovery of her grandparents’ dramatic wartime adventures. My Grandparents’ War Series You can find a full index of My Grandparents’ War Series 02 here. Production & Filming Details
Introduction Four celebrated actors explore their grandparents’ extraordinary wartime stories Outline The star of Game of Thrones on his grandparents’ wartime adventures and sorrows. My Grandparents’ War Series You can find a full index of My Grandparents’ War Series 02 here. Production & Filming Details
Introduction William the Conqueror (French: Guillaume, la jeunesse du conquérant, lit. ’William the Young Conqueror’) is a 2015 French historical film directed by Fabien Drugeon. Outline The film is about William the Conqueror when he is about to embark from Dives-sur-Mer to conquer England in the year 1066. In the event that he would not return… Read More
Introduction The King is a 2019 epic war film directed by David Michôd, based on several plays from William Shakespeare’s Henriad. The film focuses on the rise of Henry V as king after his father dies as he also must navigate palace politics, the war his father left behind, and the emotional strings of his… Read More
Introduction This documentary focuses on tempestuous 16th-century Czar Ivan IV, whose vision and ruthlessness expanded the size, power and culture of Russia. Outline Orphaned in his childhood and treated abusively by higher-ranking Boyars, Tzar Ivan was a mercurial ruler who committed his first murder at the age of 13 and was feared for his random… Read More
Introduction Viva Zapata! is a 1952 American Western film directed by Elia Kazan and starring Marlon Brando. The screenplay was written by John Steinbeck, using Edgcomb Pinchon’s 1941 book Zapata the Unconquerable as a guide. The cast includes Jean Peters and, in an Academy Award-winning performance, Anthony Quinn. The film is a fictionalized account of… Read More
Introduction Persona Non Grata (杉原千畝 スギハラチウネ, Sugihara Chiune) is a 2015 Japanese biographical drama film directed by Cellin Gluck. It depicts the life of Japanese diplomat Chiune Sugihara who was appointed a vice-consul and later a consul in Lithuania and served there from 1939 to 1940 and who saved lives of some 6,000 Jewish refugees… Read More
Introduction Wyszynski: Zemsta czy Przebaczenie is a 2021 Polish biographical film by director Also known as Powstanie kardynala (working title, Poland). Outline This film tells the story lieutenant Stefan Wyszynski (Ksawery Szlenkier) – the future Primate of Poland, unknown to a wider audience. It is 1944, in the heat of war, we meet a young… Read More
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