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Nov 3, 2017 · On Wings of Eagles: Directed by Stephen Shin, Michael Parker. With Joseph Fiennes, Jesse Kove, Bruce Locke, Shawn Dou. Eric Liddell - China's first gold medalist and one of Scotland's greatest athletes - returns to war-torn China.
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- Biography, Drama, History
- Stephen Shin, Michael Parker
- 2017-11-03
On Wings of Eagles (also titled The Last Race) is a Chinese-Hong Kong-American historical sports drama film directed by Stephen Shin and Michael Parker and starring Joseph Fiennes and Shawn Dou. [3] [4] It is an unofficial sequel to Chariots of Fire (1981).
On Wings of Eagles is a 1983 non-fiction thriller written by British author Ken Follett. Set against the background of the Iranian revolution, it tells a story based on the rescue of Paul Chiapparone and Bill Gaylord from prison in Tehran by a team of Electronic Data Systems executives led by retired Col. Arthur D. Simons.
- Ken Follett
- 1983
Feb 3, 2023 · ON WINGS OF EAGLES tells the story of the later life of Olympic gold medalist Eric Liddell ( Joseph Fiennes ), famously called "The Flying Scotsman," who competed for Britain in track and field in 1924.
- Stephen Shin, Michael Parker
- Andrea Beach
- Joseph Fiennes, Shawn Dou
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On Wings of Eagles is everything you ever wanted to know about what happened to Liddell - who famously refused to run an Olympic race on a Sunday to honor God - after the 1924 Olympics when he returned to China, the home of his heart.
The IMDb synopsis is "Two British track athletes, one a determined Jew, and the other a devout Christian, compete in the 1924 Olympics." That Christian athlete was Eric Liddell (lid-uhl) who set a record but refused to compete in trials scheduled on a Sunday.
