Arwel Gruffydd

Arwel Gruffydd

Movies for Arwel Gruffydd...

Y Sŵn
Title: Y Sŵn
Character: Wyn Roberts
Released: March 13, 2023
Type: Movie
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 good on its manifesto pledge. The reimagining of one of the most colourful chapters in contemporary Welsh history.
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Lloyd George: The People's Champion
Title: Lloyd George: The People's Champion
Character: David Lloyd George
Released: August 1, 2006
Type: Movie
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, Neil Kinnock, Michael Heseltine and David Steel.
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Do Not Go Gentle
Title: Do Not Go Gentle
Character: Alun Davies
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
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 lifelong socialist, feels angry and resentful towards the British government which has abandoned him in his old age. Having been persuaded by his children to buy a council house in the booming 80s, he discovers that this selfsame government, which made such a virtue of home ownership some ten years earlier, now expects him to sell the property in order to pay for his care. Isolated in old age, Williams secretly decides to put into action a plan to get back at the system.
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Sow Skid
Title: Sow Skid
Character: Guto
Released: December 31, 1992
Type: Movie
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.
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Hedd Wyn
Title: Hedd Wyn
Character: William Morris
Released: August 15, 1992
Type: Movie
'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 National Eisteddfod, which in August 1917 was due to be held in Birkenhead (one of the rare occasions when it was held in England). After submitting his entry, under his bardic name "Hedd Wyn" ("Blessed Peace") Evans later departs from Meirionydd by train to join the Royal Welsh Fusiliers in Liverpool, despite his initial misgivings about the war. Ellis is sent to fight in the trenches of Flanders. 'Hedd Wyn' was the first Welsh-language film to be nominated for an Oscar.
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The Storms of August
Title: The Storms of August
Character: Penri
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Looking at how the arrival of the television affected a rural community in North Wales in the 1950s.