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Prisoner of Honor

1991 British TV series or programme

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 13, 2026
Entity authoritySource title only
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Prisoner of Honor is a 1991 British made-for-television drama film directed by Ken Russell and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Oliver Reed and Peter Firth. It was made by Warner Bros. Television and distributed by HBO, and centers on the famous Dreyfus Affair. Richard Dreyfuss co-produced the film with Judith James, from a screenplay by Ron Hutchinson.

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The public source identifies “Prisoner of Honor” as 1991 British TV series or programme. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Prisoner, Honor and British.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1991—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Prisoner, Honor and British providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Prisoner of Honor” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.