Movie
Ads on the Frontline
2018 · 59 min
A sober, talking-heads documentary that unpacks the uneasy blend of propaganda and public memory, asking you to weigh competing accounts of a painful past.
- Directed by
- Richard Weller
- Starring
- Eamonn Holmes, Tim Collins, Nuala McKeever
- Overview
- Ads on the Frontline looks at a controversial series of adverts produced by the Northern Ireland Office during the last 10 years of the Troubles. The aim was to encourage people to pass on information to a confidential phoneline to help end the violence. To some, the ads were British government propaganda, to others a cultural snapshot of Northern Ireland's brutal past. Ads on the Frontline hears from people on different sides of the debate. (BBC Genome)
- How it feels
- Melancholic, tense, satirical and earnest. Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Politics, media, memory, war
- Content
- Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Directed by
- Richard Weller
- Starring
- Eamonn Holmes, Tim Collins, Nuala McKeever
