Squaddies On The Frontline

Squaddies on the Frontline sets out to explain what life was like for the British troops who were deployed during the Northern Ireland conflict, it is a tale told through the eyes of ordinary men and women who fought on the streets of Northern Ireland in ‘Operation Banner’. An operation which spanned nearly 40 years, from 1969 …

The War Business

The War Business is a film by Mark Stucke which deals with the practice of private armies or mercenaries hired by governments and multinational companies. These are typically companies whose investments are being compromised by war. This film uncovers the bloody truth of some of these armies for hire in particular “Executive Outcomes” which was founded in South Africa by …

Bomb Doctors: The Men With Nine Lives

A unique glimpse into the terrifying world of disarming bombs, we see the filmmakers of this documentary being granted unprecedented access to the British Army’s Bomb Disposal Course, the most demanding training regime available. Focusing on the conflict between Northern Ireland and the United Kingdom The Men With Nine Lives gives us the inside story on how …

Saddam: America’s Best Enemy

The Devil has been hunted down, captured and exhibited, America overcame Saddam Hussein a tyrant is dethroned, Iraq celebrates and the world is now free from evil. That is the legend but forty years of relations between Saddam Hussein and the United States tell a whole other story. This is the story of a man and …

We Stand Alone Together

Most of you will be well aware of HBO’s critically acclaimed television mini-series Band of Brothers, well We Stand Alone Together serves as an epilogue of sorts to this. Through a number of interviews with the actual former soldiers who are depicted in “BoB” we learn first hand of the horror they experienced. The way this documentary is …

An Inconvenient Border

The relationship between China and North Korea has always been complicated, China’s Mao Zedong famously said that the two countries were as close as lips and teeth. A relationship forged in blood and steel during the Korean War against the United States. The leaders of China and North Korea have kept up that appearance of brotherhood …

The Spy in the IRA

In the Northern Irish conflict spying was a very dangerous game, through recordings obtained by Panorama the IRA’s chief interrogator explains how he extracted information from informers before they were shot. This may seem typical given the circumstances of war except that for years the interrogator himself was one of Britain’s most important spies. Codenamed Stakeknife, he …