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British Airways: 100 years in the sky (2018)
100 years of BA
Very informative series, but 50% of the story was missing.
The current British Airways was formed with the merger of British Overseas Airways Corporation (BOAC) and British European Airways (BEA).
Plenty was said about BOAC, but BEA was completely whitewashed from the series.
The BEA legacy is the sole reason British Airways operate flights from many of the UKs regional airports.
Sacrifice (2016)
Embarrassing to watch
Supposedly set in Shetland, this is embarrassing to watch. The film was obviously made in Ireland and I doubt the cast set foot in Scotland, let alone Shetland. The island of Unst, where the story takes place, is a beautifully barren island with a small population. How it is able to support a hospital that features in the film beggars belief. The number of staff needed vastly outnumbers the actual population of Unst. It also manages to change its name during the film.
There are an alarming number of trees visible for a what is described in the film as a treeless island.
The body that is found in a peat bog is clearly found in clay soil. The rituals featured by the "Druids and Vikings" never took place in Shetland and the Druids were never in Shetland.
For no reason at all one scene starts with a view of a fishing village that looks suspiciously like Pennan or Crovie - Why?
It would have been far better if the whole story had been set in a fictitious place.