Synopsis:

Five years after the end of the war in the Falklands between Britain and Argentina, many facts were still wrapped in red tape. Many of the key figures had remained silent. Called "the documentary to end all documentaries about the Falklands War" in the British press, and described as "more poem than polemic, a hymn against war", The Falkland's War: The Untold Story tells the Argentine side of the story, challenging many British assumptions that this was another glorious chapter in their history and causing controversy at the time of its release as government MP's tried to get the film banned. Although patriotic emotions ran high when British troops returned victorious, the few combatants that did speak out, told of a savage and bloody was against an enemy so recently a close friend. The programme's producer/director Peter Kosminsky says "We set out to tell the real story of what war is like in the 80s. The stories we filmed were increasingly at odds with the accepted view of the war in Britain. The programme was bound to challenge some of the assumptions people had about the conflict."