Tag: Bosnia
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Damian Lewis, Matthew Macfadyen and Peter Kosminsky Remember…Warriors
Warriors by Staff | TV Gids | October 13, 2023 Actors Damian Lewis and Matthew Macfayden and director Peter Kosminsky come together to look back at the 1999 BBC drama Warriors and the roles that brought Lewis and Macfayden international success. The critically acclaimed series explored the role of British soldiers working as UN peacekeepers…
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Ten Films About the Plight of Refugees
Warriors by Stephen Ariel | The Spectator | March 11, 2022 The tragic ongoing events in Ukraine have highlighted the plight of refugees, with over 2m people (mainly women and children) fleeing the country since Russia invaded on 24 February 2022. Sadly, refugee crises have been occurring since the dawn of what may ironically be called ‘civilisation’,…
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Interview: The Charmer, The Times / Sunday Times, November 17, 2002
The Charmer by Lesley White, The Times / Sunday Times, November 17, 2002 Smooth, confident and raring to reinvent himself, Damian Lewis is just the chap to play Jeffrey Archer, says Lesley White When we meet on the Pinewood set of the slapstick satire, written by Guy Jenkin, creator of Drop the Dead Donkey, Lewis’s…
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Guardian Interview: Shooting Star – March 10, 2002
Shooting star by Jay Rayner | The Guardian |Â March 10, 2002 Watching Damian Lewis leading the men of Easy Company to victory in Spielberg’s WWII epic Band of Brothers, you’d never guess he went to Eton and attended drama school with Ewan MacGregor. Now, though, he is returning to more familiar territory as the iconic…
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Warriors: Oh what a lonely war, Daily Mail, November 22, 1999
Warriors:Â Oh what a lonely war by Peter Paterson, Daily Mail, November 22, 1999 OVER the past two nights, we have seen, in Warriors, a deeply moving, alarmingly realistic and powerfully acted drama about a war in Bosnia-Herzegovina that occurred less than a decade ago, yet has been almost wiped from the memory by subsequent Balkan…
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Fighting Talk, New Woman – October, 1999
Love Wars by Staff | New Woman | October, 1999 Ioan Gruffudd and Damian Lewis play soldiers in a new BBC drama, so we thought we’d check out their basic training in the love wars. We love a man in uniform, and they don’t come much better-looking than Ioan Gruffudd, 25, and Damian Lewis, 27.…