03 Oct 2006
Germany: A Summer's Fairytale
A documentary of the German national soccer team’s 2006 World Cup experience that changed the face of modern Germany.
Staying Up
Set in 1990 on an Air Force base in the mid-Atlantic. Billy is desperate to listen to his team Middlesborough, play Newcastle United. But Billy's quest for diversion masks an unspoken trauma in his past which he is forced to confront.
20020h 30min
Top Billed Cast
Stephen Tompkinson Billy Gowland
Elizabeth Carling Carol Gowland
Christopher Fulford Sgt. Hawke
Johnny Vegas Frank O'Hanlon
David MacCreedy Craig
Craig Heaney Omar Watson
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