The story concerns WWII's U.S.S. Indianapolis, sunk by a Japanese sub following a secret mission to deliver materials for the atomic bomb that would be dropped on Hiroshima. The men floated for five days in the Philippine Sea; only 317 of an estimated 900 who abandoned ship...
Set during July 1940, the story opens with 12-year-old evacuee Lydia walking through a village in rural England on a baking hot day. She is wearing a gas mask. The shops and houses are empty, windows boarded up and the village seemingly deserted. Leaving it behind, she arrives...
1971, and the conflict in Northern Ireland is escalating towards civil war. Young English recruit Gary is called into action in Belfast. The situat...
At the height of the First World War, two young British soldiers must cross enemy territory and deliver a message that will stop a deadly attack on...
"Queen and Country" is the hilarious follow-up to John Boorman's "Hope and Glory" (1987 nominated for 5 Academy Awards), when 9-year-old Bill Rohan...

