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Can anyone remember this film/TV film from possibly the 1990s

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SouthOfFrance · 03/05/2022 21:06

Does anyone remember a film or possibly it was a made for TV drama/ two part series set in WWII.

My memory is a bit sketchy but I think I watched it at school in around 1999 so presume it was from the 90s.

It was set it the blitz then also in the countryside, there was an older teenage girl in it and a sibling, younger than her I think.

It wasn't Carries War, more grown up than that. I've googled but nothing is coming up that sounds like it, can anyone help me, despite my vague description! Thanks

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Offredismysister · 03/05/2022 21:10

Is it hope & glory?

658Doyouknowwheremysparkis · 03/05/2022 21:13

Coming Home
Camomile Lawn ( bit early from your description but could fit )

SpindleInTheWind · 03/05/2022 21:14

Goodnight Mr Tom?

youngestisapsycho · 03/05/2022 21:14

I love Hope & Glory!

gaggiagirl · 03/05/2022 21:17

Cold comfort farm? Im not even sure it was called that now I've typed it

artisanbread · 03/05/2022 21:18

Could it have been a Rosamunde Pilcher adaptation (Coming Home is one)?

Coldsteadyrain · 03/05/2022 21:21

Back Home?

michellemagorian.com/back-home/tv-drama/

Wigeon · 03/05/2022 21:21

Friend or Foe? It’s from the 1980s and the two children are boys not girls, but it’s WW2 and partly in the countryside.

LetHimHaveIt · 03/05/2022 21:23

If not 'Hope and Glory', it could be 'Back Home' with Hayley Mills. That was v early 90s, I think.

Was it definitely WW2? Might be 'The Leaving of Liverpool' with Christine Tremarco, otherwise.

SouthOfFrance · 03/05/2022 21:27

Thank you for all the suggetions, I've looked up all these but none seem to fit.

Pretty certain it was WW2 because there is a scene in a bombed out house in the blitz/London. After that I think they leave for the countryside.

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CorsicaDreaming · 03/05/2022 21:31

Was Blitzcat by Robert Westall made into a TV series at around that time?

CorsicaDreaming · 03/05/2022 21:31

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blitzcat

Dougt · 03/05/2022 21:32

Back Home? Like Goodnight Mr Tom also based on a Michelle Magorian book. Although set at the end of the war.

Hawkins001 · 03/05/2022 21:32

Hope and glory

Plot
"The film begins on 3 September 1939, the day Britain declared war on Germany. It tells the story of the Rowan family, Billy, his sisters Sue and Dawn and his parents Grace and Clive, who live in a suburb of London. Clive joins the army, leaving Grace alone to watch over the children. She almost sends Billy and Susie away from London but pulls them back at the last second on the train platform, when she realizes she cannot bear to be apart from them. Thus Billy stays in London for the first years of the war. Seen through the eyes of 10-year-old Billy, the "fireworks" provided by the Blitz (September 1940 – May 1941) every night are as exciting as they are terrifying and the ruins they leave behind are a fascinating playground for Billy and other boys his age, who are largely unsupervised.
His family does not see things in quite the same way as the bombs continue to drop but their will to survive brings them closer together. The nightly raids do not provide the only drama, as his older sister Dawn falls for Canadian soldier Bruce, becomes pregnant and finding her life turned upside down, soon discovers the value of her family. When their house burns down (not in an air raid but in an ordinary fire), the family moves to the bucolic Thames-side home of Grace's parents. This provides an opportunity for Billy to spend more time with his curmudgeonly grandfather, who teaches him "the ways of the river".
In the autumn of 1942, Winston Churchill delivers his famous "end of the beginning" speech. Bruce returns from his secret posting and goes AWOL to find Dawn. They are married in the village church; the MPs take him away. That afternoon in the living room, Dawn gives birth to a son, encircled by her family. Billy swoons at the sight. Grace has purchased a house for the family, just down the river, but Billy must go back to London until he can get into the local school. His grandfather drives the miserable boy to his old school, only to find the block filled with screaming, ecstatic children. A stray bomb has destroyed the building, "Thank you Adolf!" one boy cries.
Roaring with laughter, his grandfather drives Billy home. The adult Billy recalls, "In all my life, nothing ever quite matched the perfect joy of that moment. My school lay in ruins, and the river beckoned with the promise of stolen days". The credits roll over the river, in its autumnal glory, to their laughter and the music of "Land of Hope and Glory".

SouthOfFrance · 03/05/2022 21:33

Blitzcat sounds so strange!! Do not remember a cat!

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SouthOfFrance · 03/05/2022 21:40

Right OK, apologies to everyone who told me it was Hope & Glory! I read the plot from Hawkins then watched the trailer, its totally this one!

Great suggestions everyone and gold stars all round for everyone who said Hope & Glory, thank you! Off to go and watch it now...

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Hawkins001 · 03/05/2022 21:56

Have a good film and sweet dreams

artisanbread · 04/05/2022 00:44

Ah I love that film. Haven't watched it for years so I might see if I can find it.

SarahDippity · 04/05/2022 00:54

SouthOfFrance · 03/05/2022 21:40

Right OK, apologies to everyone who told me it was Hope & Glory! I read the plot from Hawkins then watched the trailer, its totally this one!

Great suggestions everyone and gold stars all round for everyone who said Hope & Glory, thank you! Off to go and watch it now...

Isn’t it based on John Boorman’s own childhood?

JollyHolly30 · 04/05/2022 01:20

Hawkins001 · 03/05/2022 21:56

Have a good film and sweet dreams

'Have a good film' is such an odd way to word that!

BalloonGirlFive · 04/05/2022 12:42

I knew it must have been Hope & Glory! I watched the thread to find out! One of my favourite films 🥰

AngelicaSchuylerAndHerSisters · 04/05/2022 23:54

I was going to suggest The Camomile Lawn but I was wrong!

StrychnineInTheSandwiches · 05/05/2022 00:00

I always loved the grandparents' house in Hope and Glory. It's on Pharaoh's Island google tells me.

the80sweregreat · 05/05/2022 07:07

Did it have Pauline quirke in it as a farm hand?
I vaguely remember her doing a drama about evacuees staying with her or something?

Tyrozet · 05/05/2022 07:10

We watched a series called "Spywatch" at school in the 90s, about evacuees on a farm. The woman who played Doreen in Birds of a Feather was in it.

It was interspersed with wee songs/ skits about spelling.

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