Unparalleled Valour
        the story of
    James Richardson,vc
 

James Richardson was still a teenager when he traded the streets of Rutherglen and Vancouver, B.C. for the mud of the Western Front. He joined the 16th Battalion (Canadian Scottish) in 1914. He fought at Kitcheners Wood, surviving the first gas attack of the Great War. 
On 8 October 1916, at Regina Trench on the Somme, Jimmy stepped into history. When the attack stalled, wire uncut, and his comrades and commanding officer dying in front of him, he rose from a shell hole, marched along the tangled wire, and played his pipes under heavy German fire inspiring the men around him. They said the effect was instantaneous on the men. They rallied to the piper, surged forward, and tore the wire down with thier bare hands. 
The courage he showed there earned him the Victoria Cross and a place in the story of a nation. This film is about a boy who walked into the storm with nothing but  a set of pipes and the belief that some things are worth everything.