FILM

Air Force One, C5, Friday 10pm

Having announced a war on terror, the American President played by Harrison Ford in this lively action movie soon does his share of the fighting - by resisting when held hostage on his plane.

U.S. President James Marshall: Popular president and a family man who loves his wife Grace and daughter Alice. Marshall is also a decorated Vietnam veteran and a Medal of Honor winner, speaks reasonably fluent Russian. Feigning escape during Air Force One’s hijacking, he attempts to retake the aircraft, to rescue everybody.

His chief captor is played by a barnstorming Gary Oldman.