“In his powerful film, the historian David Olusoga manages to explain complex immigration law and decode dense documents from the government archives in an arresting way. He pulls out devastating passages from forgotten files to showcase the hostility of successive governments to non-white settlers.” – Amelia Gentleman, The Guardian
“Historian David Olusoga’s exposé of the forces at play behind the 2018 Windrush scandal was an absorbing trawl through confidential government files that brought uncomfortable truths to light and left reputations altered.” – Chris Harvey, The Telegraph
“...a scandal 70 years in the making and showed what happens when politicians use a blunt instrument to play to the gallery. It wasn’t just his meticulous research from government archives and the evocative footage of workers — electricians, plumbers, machinists — stepping off that ship in their Sunday best that was so affecting; it was that the Windrush scandal victims interviewed were so stoical, so reasonable about the wrong that had been done to them” – Carol Midgely, The Times
Directed by James Ross & Tim Kirby; Uplands TV / BBC