Scotland The Promised Land
2016 · Documentary · 1 Season · 3 Episodes ·
Three-part series exploring Scotland's social and political changes in the years following World War One
E11. The Birth of Modern ScotlandThe decade after the Great War would have a profound social and political impact on modern Scotland. Returning troops and exhausted industrial workers were promised a land fit for heroes, but instead found widespread poverty and political discontent.E22. Homes for Highland HeroesThe second film in this series examines the grave problems facing Scotland's Highlands and Islands in the turbulent decade after the Great War.E33. The Cultural RevolutionIn the wake of the Great War, two visions of Scotland emerged - a nationalist cultural resurgence led by a band of writers, and a popular revival that appealed to the masses.
