Overview
Drama inspired by the life of Walter Tull who, after years in an orphanage, went on to become a professional footballer and then the first black commissioned officer to lead British troops during WW1. The action concerns Tull's turbulent passage from ordinary soldier to extraordinary officer at officer training camp, where he had to face his own demons as well as fight the prejudice that surrounded him
Cast
- O-T Fagbenle as Walter Tull
- David Oakes as Oswald Hennessey
- Kwame Kwei-Armah as Daniel Tull
- Zac Fox as Young Soldier
- Michael Wildman as Edward Tull
- Julian Forsyth as Rev. Dr. Stevenson
- Ewan Stewart as Sgt Fuller
- Dugald Bruce Lockhart as Capt. Coombes
- Christian Roe as Pte William Cooper
- Chris Starkie as Pte. Sebastian Wills