Harry Birrell Presents Films of Love & War (2019)
Harry Birrell Presents Films of Love & War
The life of Harry Birrell, who recorded everything with a wonderfully cinematic eye on thousands of feet of high-quality 16mm film. From commanding a battalion of Gurkhas in the Indian army at the start of the Second World War, to dangerous sorties deep behind enemy lines in Burma at its end, and from the ballroom dances of his youth in the 1930s to teaching his children how to dance the twist in the 1960s, Harry's entertaining and errant adventures are filmed with the intimacy of home movies, but on the scale of Lawrence of Arabia. Narrated by Richard Madden
Harry Birrell Presents Films of Love & War airs on BBC Scotland at 10:00 PM, Tuesday 2 July. (Subtitles.)
Certificate
12
Topics
News ➝ Current Affairs
Documentary
Richard Madden
Narrator
Matt Pinder
Director