Mad Blood Stirring

MAD BLOOD is based on a true story.

In 1815, after Great Britain and the United States have declared peace in the so-called Second American War of Independence, a group of captured US sailors are delivered to the legendary Dartmoor Prison, a godforsaken spot in the far reaches of Devon, where they are immediately immersed in a stew of political and racial tension among the incumbent prisoners-of-war.

Here there are seven accommodation blocks - six white, one black - where, with the war over, the situation within the prison walls is becoming ever more explosive, a powder keg waiting to blowa