Scotland is set to celebrate 30 years since Braveheart first stirred the nation with a series of events and a new film studio. Mel Gibson’s epic film about freedom fighter William Wallace earned five ...

Scots actor James Cosmo will switch on new floodlighting at Stirling’s historic Old Brig in a ceremony next month. The work on the scheduled ancient monument, comprising new LED lighting, has been ...

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It was the multi-Oscar winning blockbuster that help spark a new golden era in Scottish cinema and is credited with helping to fuel a new wave of nationalism a quarter of a century ago. But now Mel ...

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Braveheart is a big, boisterous, slow-motion axe-wield of a film — a sensory barrage of mythical proportions; operatic hero worship fuelled by blood, testosterone and bright blue makeup. It’s also 23 ...

HE turned the English over at the Battle of Stirling Bridge in 1297. Seven centuries later, the army of tourists which forages north has helped the turnover at the national monument to Scots hero ...

Braveheart was released in 1995, won the Academy Award for Best Picture and four others, was seen by tens of millions of ...