COLLECTION · Series · 2009

Small Island

Name: Small Island
Genre: Drama
Duration: 90 min
Rating: 6.2

Follow three intricately connected stories of Jamaicans and Londoners involved in World War Two. Hortense yearns for a new life away from rural Jamaica, Gilbert dreams of becoming a lawyer, and Queenie longs to escape her Lincolnshire roots. Hope and humanity meet stubborn reality as we trace the tangled history of Jamaica and the UK.

Source: TMDB

* 6.2 (17)DramaUnited Kingdom

Countries

United Kingdom

Studios

BBC One · BBC

Runtime

90 min/ep

Release

06/12/2009

Score

6.2 / 10 (17)

Awards and nominations

Best Drama Serial
Winner at International Emmy Awards 2010 — AL Films

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Seasons and episodes

Season 1

2 episodes · 2009

Episode 1. Episode One

2009-12-06 · 90 min

London 1948: Hortense joins Gilbert, her new husband, in England, where he is lodging with Queenie Bligh. The women have both married in unpromising circumstances as love is a luxury neither can afford. As Hortense remembers her life in…

Episode 2. Episode Two

2009-12-13 · 90 min

The emotional and moving climax to the stories of Hortense, Queenie and Gilbert whose lives entwine in post Second World War London. Hortense begins her new life in England and soon learns it is not the golden land she hoped it would be.…

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