Gillies MacKinnon
Description
A moving and inspiring factual drama about the pioneering work on radar by a little know team of scientists in the run up to the Second World War. On 26 February 1935, Robert Watson-Watt demonstrated for the first time that aircraft could be detected by bouncing radio waves off them. By the time the war began in 1939, radar stations were dotted along the British coast, tracking aircraft at distances of 100 miles away.
Pub. Date
[2012]
Description
Inspector George Gently is a by-the-book cop from London now working in the North East of England. With the social changes sweeping the rest of 1960s Britain, the former Scotland Yard detective finds that crime occurs here the same as anywhere else. Along with his cocky young sidekick, Sergeant John Bacchus, the two investigate the suspicious death of an ex-informant facing a seemingly hopeless future, as well as the murder of a young woman poised...
11) Pure
Pub. Date
c2006
Description
Ten-year-old Paul slowly begins to realize that his mother is an addict and, with the help of a local waitress, tries to rescue his mother from her boyfriend/dealer.
12) Regeneration
Pub. Date
2010
Description
In the midst of WWI, Edinburgh's Craiglockhart Hospital is crowded with traumatized soldiers scarred by the horrors of battle. Dr. William Rivers, the hospital psychiatrist who hovers on the edge of a nervous breakdown as he attempts to 'cure' the incurable.