Hornblower: The Frogs and the Lobsters

In 1795, in the middle of the French Revolutionary Wars, the Royal Navy ships a force of French royalists toward the coast of Brittany to retake their country. Lieutenant Horatio Hornblower (Ioan Gruffudd) is sent along, and the invasion is already described as doomed. Andrew Grieve sets the young officer beside Colonel Moncoutant (Antony Sher), and the two men's very different ideas of the mission pull at each other from the first landing.