TV series
The Promise
Overview
The story of a young woman who goes to present-day Israel/Palestine determined to find out about her soldier grandfather's involvement in the final years of Palestine under the British mandate.
Details
- First air date
- 2011-02-06
- Status
- Ended
- Seasons
- 1 season
- Episodes
- 4 episodes
- Genres
- Drama, War & Politics
- Network
- Channel 4
- Production
- Daybreak Pictures, Stonehenge Films, Lama Films
- Country
- GB
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Claire Foy as Erin Matthews
- Haaz Sleiman as Omar Habash
- Christian Cooke as Len Matthews
- Katharina Schüttler as Clara Rosenbaum
- Ali Suliman as Abu-Hassan Mohammed
- Ben Miles as Max Meyer
- Pip Torrens as Major John Arbuthnot
- Perdita Weeks as Eliza Meyer
- Smadi Wolfman as Leah Meyer
- Holly Aird as Chris Matthews
- Hiam Abbass as Old Jawda
- Lucas Gregorowicz as Captain Richard Rowntree
Creators and crew
- Peter Kosminsky - Creator
- Peter Kosminsky - Director
- Peter Kosminsky - Writer
Episodes
Episode 1
Just as 18-year-old Londoner Erin sets off to spend summer in Israel with her best friend, Eliza, she unearths an old diary belonging to her seriously ill grandfather, Len. Intrigued by the life of this old man she barely knows, she takes the diary with her, and is stunned to learn of his part in the post-WWII British peace-keeping force in what was then Palestine.
Episode 2
Erin finds it hard to deal with the aftermath of the suicide bombing and the parallels with her grandfather's story. She decides to visit Eliza's grandfather to get some answers, though they may be uncomfortable.
Episode 3
Len discovers the source of the leak to the Jewish militia, with tragic consequences. Erin becomes even more determined to resolve the mystery surrounding the fate of her grandfather and his friend Mohammed as she continues to read his diary and embarks on a mission to absolve Len's guilt.
Episode 4
In 1947, Jews are out on the streets celebrating the British withdrawal from Palestine and in Haifa, the exodus of Arabs has started and Len is worried about the safety of Mohammed and his family and Erin discovers her grandfather's shame. Erin refuses to give up her quest to find Mohammed's family, even when it takes her on a dangerous journey into Gaza.
More like this
A Small Light
Miep Gies didn't hesitate when her boss Otto Frank came to her and asked her to hide his family from the Nazis during World War II. For the next two years, Miep, her husband Jan, and the other helpers watched over the eight souls in hiding in the Secret Annex. And it was Miep who found Anne's Diary and kept it safe so Otto, the only one of the eight who survived, could later share it with the world as one of the most powerful accounts of the Holocaust.
Nuremberg
Justice Robert H. Jackson leads Allied prosecutors in trying 21 Germans for Nazi war crimes after World War II.
Combat!
Combat! is an American television program that originally aired on ABC from 1962 until 1967. The show covered the grim lives of a squad of American soldiers fighting the Germans in France during World War II. The program starred Rick Jason as platoon leader Second Lieutenant Gil Hanley and Vic Morrow as Sergeant "Chip" Saunders.
The Bible
The story of God's creation of the Earth and the landmark events leading up to the Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
Foyle's War
As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an MI5 agent operating in the aftermath of the war.
The Jewel in the Crown
In India, during the final years of British rule in World War II, an unjust arrest for rape sets off questions of identity and personal responsibility being explored against a background of war and personal intrigue.
I, Claudius
Acclaimed blackly comic historical drama series. Set amidst a web of power, corruption and lies, it chronicles the reigns of the Roman emperors - Augustus, Tiberius, Caligula and finally Claudius.
The Winds of War
Against the backdrop of world events that led to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941, Victor 'Pug' Henry is a career naval officer who, along with his family, learns to navigate the waters of his dangerous times in the late 1930s.
The State Within
The State Within is a six-part British television political thriller serial written and created by Lizzie Mickery and Daniel Percival, broadcast on BBC One from 2 November to 7 December 2006.
After a plane explodes over Washington DC, panic begins to envelop the British embassy, and its ambassador to Washington, Mark Brydon, finds himself caught in a potentially damaging diplomatic incident.
Shōgun
An English navigator becomes both a player and pawn in complex political games in feudal Japan.