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June 18, 2017. (2017-06-18) My Mother and Other Strangers is a 2016 British television drama series, written by Barry Devlin, made by BBC Northern Ireland with funding from Northern Ireland Screen. [1] The story is set in a small village in Northern Ireland in 1943, during World War II. Commissioning of the first series of five 60-minute ...
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This series takes place in the immediate aftermath of the war, as a group of female former codebreakers forced to keep their experiences secret reunite in order to hunt down and stop a local murderer. In the second season, they must prove the innocence of one of their members. The show has been over for a few years, but it's worth catching up.
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This documentary explores how the American military service of five famous directors (John Ford, William Wyler, George Stevens, John Huston, and Frank Capra) changed the course of Hollywood film forever. Without the time they spent serving in the military, the doc argues, they would have never developed their visual sensibilities or their cinematic...
Claire's postwar life may only be featured in a few episodes per season, but her wartime nursing experience informs the character's behavior when she travels back several hundred years and falls in love with a Scottish leader. Both her confidence that she deserves to be treated fairly and her era-inappropriate medical knowledge have come into play ...
This series hasn't premiered yet — in fact, it doesn't even have a premiere date. But it's the third miniseries collaboration between Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks (after Band of Brothers and The Pacific), and while there are some unconfirmed reports suggesting half a billion dollars has been spent to save a reportedly troubled production, I still...
- Kayla Hawkins
My Mother and Other Strangers is a very different beast, slow moving and graceful, there is none of Poldark’s derring-do or bodice ripping. And much as I miss Aidan and Eleanor, it makes for a ...
- Ben Dowell
About the Show. Set in Northern Ireland during World War Two, My Mother and Other Strangers follows the fortunes of the Coyne family and their neighbors as they struggle to maintain a normal life ...
Eels and extramarital intrigue dominate My Mother and Other Strangers episode 2 The beguilingly slow-moving Second World War drama has captured the heart of Ben Dowell.
About the Show. Set in Northern Ireland during World War Two, My Mother and Other Strangers follows the fortunes of the Coyne family and their neighbors as they struggle to maintain a normal life after a huge United States Army Air Force (USAAF) airfield, with 4,000 service men and women, lands in the middle of their rural parish.
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My Mother and Other Strangers: With Ciarán Hinds, Michael Nevin, Hattie Morahan, Owen McDonnell. In 1943, the Coyne family and their neighbours struggle to maintain a normal life after a US Army Air Force base is set up in the middle of their rural parish.
