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Channel Islands. The Channel Islands[note 1] are an archipelago in the English Channel, off the French coast of Normandy. They are divided into two Crown Dependencies: the Bailiwick of Jersey, which is the largest of the islands; and the Bailiwick of Guernsey, consisting of Guernsey, Alderney, Sark, Herm and some smaller islands. Historically ...
Alderney shares its prehistory with the other islands in the Bailiwick of Guernsey, becoming an island in the Neolithic period as the waters of the Channel rose. Formerly rich in dolmens, like the other Channel Islands, Alderney with its heritage of megaliths has suffered through the large-scale military constructions of the 19th century and also by the Germans during the World War II ...
Yvonne Furneaux (born Elisabeth Yvonne Scatcherd; 11 May 1926 – 5 July 2024) was a French-British actress. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art , she worked with notable filmmakers like Peter Brook , Federico Fellini , Roman Polanski , Michelangelo Antonioni , and Claude Chabrol , as well as in several genre productions.
Box office. $250,000 (U.S.) [ 2 ] Hour of the Wolf (Swedish: Vargtimmen, lit. 'The Wolf Hour') is a 1968 Swedish psychological horror [ n 1 ] film directed by Ingmar Bergman and starring Max von Sydow and Liv Ullmann. The story explores the disappearance of fictional painter Johan Borg (von Sydow), who lived on an island with his wife Alma ...
Box office. £146,548 (UK) [1] $1,050,000 (est.) (US/Canada) [2][3] The Captain's Paradise is a 1953 British comedy film produced and directed by Anthony Kimmins, and starring Alec Guinness, Yvonne De Carlo and Celia Johnson. Guinness plays the captain of a passenger ship that travels regularly between Gibraltar and Spanish Morocco.
W. The Wreck of the Mary Deare (film) Categories: Films set in the British Empire. Films set in Europe. Channel Islands in fiction. Films set in the British Isles. Works set in the Channel Islands. Films set in British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies.
Another Mother's Son. Another Mother's Son is a 2017 British war drama film directed by Christopher Menaul, written by Jenny Lecoat, and starring Jenny Seagrove, Julian Kostov, Ronan Keating, John Hannah, and Amanda Abbington. The film is based on a true story from the German occupation of the Channel Islands, about a Jersey woman named Louisa ...
English is one of the official languages and a dominant language in the Islands. Its status is mainly a product [clarification needed] of the last century, and some 200 years ago, very few people in the Channel Islands spoke that language. Most papers, signage, and other such official materials are printed and distributed in English.