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Michael Kitchen stars as the charismatic Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle, who fights his own battles on the homefront while WWII is raging across Europe. The Russian House June 1945. Tracking an escaped Russian POW at the behest of British intelligence, Foyle becomes involved in a murder investigation conducted by his former subordinate, DI Paul Milner. The situation threatens not only their already strained relationship, but also Foyle’s life. Killing Time July 1945. While African American GIs wait for transport home, racial tensions run high at the army base in Hastings—particularly when a black American serviceman becomes romantically involved with a white local woman. Then a series of nighttime holdups adds to the town’s concerns and leaves Foyle puzzled The Hide August 1945. Foyle probes the mysterious motives of James Devereaux, a former POW and member of the British Free Corps, who refuses to defend himself against treason charges. Meanwhile, Milner investigates the murder of a young woman rooming with the Devereaux family’s housekeeper.
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Foyle's War (2002)
74 min
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.