The Bill Douglas Trilogy Collection
The Bill Douglas Trilogy recounts the harrowing experiences of a young boy, Jamie, growing up in crippling poverty: material and emotional impoverishment; harrowing privations at the hands of his paternal grandmother; incarceration in a children’s home; living in a hostel for down-and-outs.
Watch My Childhood
Bill Douglas' second installment, My Ain Folk, poignantly recounts his impoverished childhood in 1940s Scotland, inspired by his own life events.
Watch My Ain Folk
After losing his grandmother, a young boy named Jamie is uprooted from his home and forced to live with a distant relative, while his brother is sent to a welfare institution.
Watch My Way Home
Jamie leaves his childhood home to live with his grandmother, embarking on a journey of self-discovery through various jobs and military service, which leads to an unlikely friendship with Robert in Egypt.
