The Brit Who Tried To Kill Trump (2017)

ALL 01/20/2017 (en) Crime, Documentary 42 Min
  • Release
    01/20/2017
  • Production
    Firecracker Films, BBC
  • Rotten tomato
    48%
  • Original title
    The Brit Who Tried To Kill Trump
  • Original language
    en
  • Production Cost
  • 0.00
    -

Overview

In June 2016, 20-year-old Brit Michael Sandford was arrested at a Donald Trump rally, after trying to take a police officer's gun in a bid to shoot the then republican presidential nominee. Michael immediately found himself at the centre of a media storm and at the mercy of America's notoriously harsh justice system. After pleading guilty, he faced years behind bars. But how did a young middle-class boy from suburban Surrey who suffers from Asperger's end up thousands of miles from home? And what drove him to attempt to kill one of the most powerful men in the world? This programme follows Michael's family as they travel to the US for his sentencing, unsure of when they might see him again. Set against the backdrop of Trump's remarkable rise to the White House, the documentary explores Michael's complex past while using exclusive eye witness interviews and never-before-seen archive to piece together the elaborate assassination plot and attempt to find out why he did it.

  1. Guy Simmonds

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer



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Casts

  1. Adrian Bower

    Narrator

  2. Donald Trump

    Himself (archive footage)

  3. Mike Pence

    Himself (archive footage)

Full Cast & Crew

Casts : 3 , Crews : 1

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The Brit Who Tried To Kill Trump (2017) 42 Min

ALL 01/20/2017 (en)
Crime, Documentary
  • Release 01/20/2017
  • Production
    Firecracker Films, BBC
  • Original title The Brit Who Tried To Kill Trump
  • en
  • Revenue0.00

Overview

In June 2016, 20-year-old Brit Michael Sandford was arrested at a Donald Trump rally, after trying to take a police officer's gun in a bid to shoot the then republican presidential nominee. Michael immediately found himself at the centre of a media storm and at the mercy of America's notoriously harsh justice system. After pleading guilty, he faced years behind bars. But how did a young middle-class boy from suburban Surrey who suffers from Asperger's end up thousands of miles from home? And what drove him to attempt to kill one of the most powerful men in the world? This programme follows Michael's family as they travel to the US for his sentencing, unsure of when they might see him again. Set against the backdrop of Trump's remarkable rise to the White House, the documentary explores Michael's complex past while using exclusive eye witness interviews and never-before-seen archive to piece together the elaborate assassination plot and attempt to find out why he did it.

  1. Guy Simmonds

    Director

  2. Story

  3. Editor

  4. Producer