This must be one of the first docudramas around. They interview the battle participants and bystanders as in a documentary, but of cou4se they are all actors since the battle took place in the 1700s.

The film must mean more to the British and Scottish viewers than a mere Anglophile like myself, as it involves the last land battle fought on their soil and the final one of this clan uprising under the overrated Bonnie Prince Charlie.

The show suggests that the Scottish strategy was deeply flawed to the point that the Prince’s own generals were mystified, and that it led not only to defeat b... read the rest.