Alisdair Simpson

Alisdair Simpson

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Alisdair Simpson

Películas

La corresponsal
Newscaster #2
Marie Colvin (Rosamund Pike) fue una periodista reconocida mundialmente por su trabajo en distintos conflictos bélicos. Testigo de algunas cruentas batallas recientes, especialmente de lo sucedido en Oriente Medio, Colvin contaba con el respeto tanto de los lectores como de sus compañeros de profesión por su enorme valentía y humildad. Sin embargo, su personalidad era caótica y autodestructiva: abusaba del alcohol y su vida personal era, un auténtico desastre. Tras recibir el impacto de una granada en Sri Lanka, comienza a llevar un distintivo parche en el ojo mientras se sienta a tomar martinis rodeada de la alta sociedad londinense a la que tanto aborrece, hasta que un día recibe el más peligroso de todos los encargos, que acepta junto a su también prestigioso fotógrafo de guerra, Paul Conroy (Jamie Dornan). Juntos viajan a Siria para cubrir lo que sucede en la ciudad de Homs, donde aprenderá el verdadero coste de la guerra, tanto física como psicológicamente.
The Man Who Saved the World
Narrator (voice)
During the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962, Soviet Navy officer Vasily Arkhipov refused to launch a nuclear strike and saved the world from nuclear war and total destruction.
Black Ops Special Forces: Operation Thunderbolt
Narrator
This is the real story of the legendary Raid on Entebbe. On 27th June 1976 terrorists hi-jacked Air France Flight 139 en route from Tel Aviv to Paris. On board are 246 passengers, most of them Jews. They are taken to Entebbe, Uganda and are held hostage in the airport terminal. Even though Uganda is thousands of miles away, across hostile territory, Israel's defence minister, Shimon Peres decides to launch a rescue mission. It is a job for Sayeret Matkal, the most elite unit in the Israeli Defence Force. Featuring interviews with surviving hostages, members of Sayeret Matkal and Peres himself this is the inside story of the most remarkable special forces mission of them all.
Ragged Tooth
Narrator (voice)
The ragged-tooth shark has a formidable reputation – but the truth about this animal is very different. We follow this incredible shark on its biannual migration along the South African coast and venture deep into underwater caves to study its dramatic mating behaviour.
The Somme: From Defeat to Victory
Himself - Narrator (voice)
Based on diaries, records and eyewitness accounts, this is the story of the two Battles of the Somme from the perspective of British and German soldiers. It shows how the major lessons learned by the British Army leadership after the disastrous first attacks of July 1916 were turned into victory at the second attempt in September 1916, arguably the turning point for the First World War.
Heroes of the Second World War
Writer
Heroes appear in different guises but all possess the same qualities; bravery, courage, passion and pride. As the German armies swept all before them, Britain stood alone to face this seemingly unstoppable force and an entire nation put their best foot forward. Some individuals would be celebrated with medals but countless hundreds of thousands of others would pass unrecorded or even unknown. Outside of Britain the men and women of the French resistance, the people of Malta and countless soldiers, sailors and airmen fought bravely to rid the world of such a poisonous evil.
Supervolcano: The Truth About Yellowstone
Himself - Narrator (voice)
Directly following Supervolcano, a two-episode documentary reveals the cutting-edge research that informed the drama. Meet the experts who monitor the behaviour of the Yellowstone supervolcano, who face the awesome responsibility of predicting when the next super-eruption might next take place - and advising on what will happen when it does. The programme goes behind the scenes to reveal the work being done to try to understand the sequence of events that could one day culminate in this apocalypse, and to calculate the global fallout that would follow it. Written by BBC
Pompeya: El último día
La ciudad de Pompeya llegó a un fin devastador cuando el 24 de agosto del año 79 de nuestra era, el poderoso volcán Vesubio entró en erupción, en el mayor desastre natural que experimentó el mundo antiguo. Combinando investigaciones científicas y espectaculares efectos especiales, esta película documental dramatiza las últimas horas de una ciudad ajena al peligro que se cernía sobre ella.