That includes the bleak episodes too – like the racism many Indigenous soldiers faced when they returned home.
The career of Harold Adrian Russell Philby KimKim" to his friends and family – is a dark mirror to some bleak episodes in Britain's postwar history.
BBC4 are now re-screening series one on Monday nights, two bleak episodes at a time, as a pre-cursor to series two.
Given the chronic exclusion of blacks in entertainment, it's easy to understand the prevailing critical view that a work of art by a black artist about the bleakest episode in our history must, on these grounds alone, be worthy of our attention.
Far from heroic, the Lincoln County War was just a feud over beef contracts, and it marked one of the bleakest episodes in the history of the West.
MANY Indians look back on the sterilisation drive that was undertaken during "the Emergency", when Indira Gandhi suspended democracy in 1975-77, as one of the bleakest episodes in the history of their independent republic.
For more than 50 years, the career of Harold Adrian Russell Philby KimKim" to friends and family – has been the dark mirror in which we have read the bleakest episodes of Britain's postwar history.
On Tuesday, the day after one of the bleakest episodes in the history of the National Basketball Association -- when the players rejected the league's contract offer, disbanded their union and moved the season a step closer to being abandoned -- the Nets held a rally to promote their "Brooklyn Experience" outside Borough Hall.
Things get even more bleak in Episode 4, which airs Feb. 22 and deals with the shocking aftermath of the defeat of a band of Roman soldiers led by Marcus Crassus' son, Tiberius (Christian Antidormi).
There's no denying that Leigh's films have provided some of the most unmitigatedly stark episodes in British cinema – ever since his 1971 feature Bleak Moments, a polar study of English emotional isolation.
