Movies: Arwel Gruffydd

  • 2023
    Y Sŵn

    Y Sŵn (2023)

    Y Sŵn

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    In 1979, when Margaret Thatcher's first government breaks a promise to establish a Welsh language television channel, a wave of civil disobedience follows. One man - Gwynfor Evans - threatens to starve himself to death unless the government comes goo...

    Y Sŵn
  • 1992
    Hedd Wyn

    Hedd Wyn (1992)

    Hedd Wyn

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    'Hedd Wyn' is a 1992 Welsh anti-war biopic. Ellis Humphrey Evans, a farmer's son and poet living at Trawsfynydd in the Meirionydd countryside of upland Wales, competes for the most coveted prize of all in Welsh Poetry - that of the chair of the Natio...

    Hedd Wyn
  • 2001
    Do Not Go Gentle

    Do Not Go Gentle (2001)

    Do Not Go Gentle

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    Maureen has her hands full at home and can't take care of her father William, who may be suffering from Alzheimer's. Her brothers - Alun, an alcoholic trumpet player, and John, an insensitive businessman - don't really want to help. William, a lifelo...

    Do Not Go Gentle
  • 2006
    Lloyd George: The People's Champion

    Lloyd George: The People's Champion (2006)

    Lloyd George: The People's Champion

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    Huw Edwards presents a profile of the former Prime Minister, depicting him as a brilliantly innovative social reformer to whom we owe old age pensions, National Insurance and much else. Contributors include Stephen Constantine, Margaret MacMillan, Ne...

    Lloyd George: The People's Champion
  • 1992
    Sow Skid

    Sow Skid (1992)

    Sow Skid

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    We follow a nationalist who is looking for a motorbike - and for his own country. He believes that the society in North Wales is indifferent towards the future of the nation and the language and that motorbikes are sometimes smarter than people....

    Sow Skid
  • 1988
    The Storms of August

    The Storms of August (1988)

    The Storms of August

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    Looking at how the arrival of the television affected a rural community in North Wales in the 1950s....

    The Storms of August