The film follows the fictional story of Henry Stanfield (Roger Allam), a career diplomat who has just been appointed as Truth Commissioner to Northern Ireland. But soon he learns the hard way that those in power will stop at nothing to suppress the truth about the violence of the past.
1967, County Donegal, Ireland
26 November 1964, Birkenhead, Merseyside, England, UK
24 November 1964, Ballycastle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
1954, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
1990, UK
1956, Gaoth Dobhair, Donegal, Ireland
1960, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
25 January 1985, Belfast, Co. Antrim, Northern Ireland, UK
26 October 1953, London, England, UK
19 August 1948, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
1955, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
31 January 1989, Belfast, Northern Ireland, UK
1968, Enfield, Middlesex, England, UK
26 April 1979, Prague, Czechoslovakia [now Czech Republic]
July 26, 2016
The Truth Commissioner is a taut, engaging drama in the style of those Sunday night BBC or ITV dramas that tell a story decently, but do not leave you clamouring for more.