Going for Gold - The 48 Games (2012)

Director:	David Blair
Actors:	Matt Smith, Sam Hoare, James Frain, Geoffrey Palmer, Douglas Hodge, Anastasia Hille, John Bird, Adrian Lukis, Ron Cook, Clive Merrison, Alexandra Moen, Sara Vickers

This is the powerful and uplifting true story of how two men from very different backgrounds triumphed against the odds, capturing Olympic Gold and embodying the battling spirit of the 1948 London games. The fact that the games took place at all was astonishing in itself, with Britain still struggling with the damaging after effects of war. This compelling film follows the journey to the Olympic final of an unlikely pairing of competitors, boat builders son Bert Bushnell (Matt Smith) and Eton and Oxford-educated Richard Dickie Burnell (Sam Hoare). Thrown together as double sculling partners just six weeks before the games, they had to confront and overcome vast differences in their personal and professional lives, as well as push themselves to their physical and emotional limits. As seen on UKTV