Movies: British history

  • 2013
    The Flying Scotsman: A Rail Romance

    The Flying Scotsman: A Rail Romance (2013)

    The Flying Scotsman: A Rail Romance

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    Built in 1923, the Flying Scotsman was the first steam locomotive to run at 100 miles an hour and to star in its own feature film. This is the untold story of the iconic Flying Scotsman-the very best in the engineering of its time....

    The Flying Scotsman: A Rail Romance
  • 2015
    Cake Bakers & Trouble Makers: Lucy Worsley's 100 Years of the WI

    Cake Bakers & Trouble Makers: Lucy Worsley's 100 Years of the WI (2015)

    Cake Bakers & Trouble Makers: Lucy Worsley's 100 Years of the WI

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    Documentary to mark the WI's centenary. Lucy Worsley goes beyond the stereotypes of jam and Jerusalem to reveal the surprisingly radical side of this Great British institution....

    Cake Bakers & Trouble Makers: Lucy Worsley's 100 Years of the WI
  • 2008
    Clarissa & the King's Cookbook

    Clarissa & the King's Cookbook (2008)

    Clarissa & the King's Cookbook

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    Clarissa Dickson Wright tracks down Britain's oldest known cookbook, The Forme of Cury. This 700-year-old scroll was written during the reign of King Richard II from recipes created by the king's master chefs. How did this ancient manuscript influenc...

    Clarissa & the King's Cookbook
  • 2018
    Mary Berry's Country House at Christmas

    Mary Berry's Country House at Christmas (2018)

    Mary Berry's Country House at Christmas

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    Mary Berry visits Harewood House in Yorkshire as it prepares for Christmas on a grand scale, and demonstrates how to make delicious recipes inspired by festive dishes of the past....

    Mary Berry's Country House at Christmas
  • 1945
    Westminster Abbey

    Westminster Abbey (1945)

    Westminster Abbey

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    The history of Westminster Abbey and a tour of the monuments within it; accompanied by choral music and including footage of the coronation of King George VI in 1937....

    Westminster Abbey
  • 2019
    Edward II of England: The Unhappy King

    Edward II of England: The Unhappy King (2019)

    Edward II of England: The Unhappy King

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    His opponents accused him of being homosexual. The male favorites he gathered around him during his short life gave those malevolent enemies solid arguments to do so. He would not have failed if he had proved himself to be an energetic king. But Edwa...

    Edward II of England: The Unhappy King
  • 2014
    How To Get Ahead at Medieval Court

    How To Get Ahead at Medieval Court (2014)

    How To Get Ahead at Medieval Court

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    Writer Broadcaster and Newsnight arts correspondent Stephen Smith finds out what it took to get ahead at the court of Richard II....

    How To Get Ahead at Medieval Court
  • 1970
    The Changing Face Of Salford Collection

    The Changing Face Of Salford Collection (1970)

    The Changing Face Of Salford Collection

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    Between 1968 and 1970, J M Goodger, a lecturer at the University of Salford, made a film record of the living conditions in the slums of Ordsall, Salford, which were then in the process of being demolished. Under the title 'The Changing face of Salfo...

    The Changing Face Of Salford Collection
  • 2020
    The Bloody Border

    The Bloody Border (2020)

    The Bloody Border

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    The painful story of Ireland and the Irish people, who struggled for centuries to free themselves from the tyrannical clutches of the British Empire; an epic tale of poverty, hunger, despair, violence and unyielding courage....

    The Bloody Border
  • 2010
    Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons

    Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons (2010)

    Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons

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    In this hour-long documentary, Oxford academic Janina Ramirez tours the country in search of Anglo-Saxon art treasures. Her basic thesis - and it is a plausible one - is that we should not look upon their era as a "dark age" as compared, for example,...

    Treasures of the Anglo-Saxons
  • 2018
    Victoria & Albert: The Royal Wedding

    Victoria & Albert: The Royal Wedding (2018)

    Victoria & Albert: The Royal Wedding

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    Historian Lucy Worsley restages the 1840 wedding of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert. Aided by a team of experts, Worsley recreates the most important elements of the ceremony and the celebrations, scouring history books, archives, newspapers and Que...

    Victoria & Albert: The Royal Wedding
  • 2016
    The Queen

    The Queen (2016)

    The Queen

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    The Queen
  • 2019
    A Year Of British Murder

    A Year Of British Murder (2019)

    A Year Of British Murder

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    Between January 1st and 31 December 2017, 768 people died as a result of murder or manslaughter in Britain - approximately 14 people a week. This powerful and original film tells the stories of some of those cases, exploring the human cost of murder ...

    A Year Of British Murder
  • 1950
    Land of Tradition

    Land of Tradition (1950)

    Land of Tradition

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    This Traveltalk series short visits an array of locations associated with England's heritage. Included are Runnymede, Windsor, Ascot, Lincoln, Wells, Salisbury, Glastonbury, and the ancient Stonehenge site....

    Land of Tradition
  • 2014
    Torchlighters: The John Wesley Story

    Torchlighters: The John Wesley Story (2014)

    Torchlighters: The John Wesley Story

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    When young John Wesley is miraculously saved from his family’s burning home, his mother is certain that God has a great purpose for the boy's life. John will later refer to himself as a “brand plucked from the burning.” As a man, Wesley tries to live...

    Torchlighters: The John Wesley Story
  • 2010
    Rosslyn Chapel: A Treasure in Stone

    Rosslyn Chapel: A Treasure in Stone (2010)

    Rosslyn Chapel: A Treasure in Stone

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    The exquisite Rosslyn Chapel is a masterpiece in stone. It used to be one of Scotland's best-kept secrets, but it became world-famous when it was featured in Dan Brown's the Da Vinci Code....

    Rosslyn Chapel: A Treasure in Stone
  • 2000
    The 43 Group: The Unfinished War

    The 43 Group: The Unfinished War (2000)

    The 43 Group: The Unfinished War

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    The 43 Group was an English anti-fascist group set up by Jewish ex-servicemen in the immediate wake of World War II when, on their return to London, they encountered British fascist organisations such as Jeffrey Hamm’s “British League of Ex-Serviceme...

    The 43 Group: The Unfinished War
  • 2012
    Royal Babylon: The Criminal Record of the British Monarchy

    Royal Babylon: The Criminal Record of the British Monarchy (2012)

    Royal Babylon: The Criminal Record of the British Monarchy

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    A video polemic, based on Heathcote Williams' investigative poem 'Royal Babylon: The Criminal Record of the British Monarchy' - every film a crime. The collective at Handsome Dog have used the best of new media to present a video polemic based on He...

    Royal Babylon: The Criminal Record of the British Monarchy
  • 2019
    INFINITY minus Infinity

    INFINITY minus Infinity (2019)

    INFINITY minus Infinity

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    INFINITY minus Infinity draws on several inspirations: the modernist verse of the Jamaican poet Una Marson, the alluvial invocations of the Martinican philosopher and poet Édouard Glissant, the black feminist poetics of the Brazilian philosopher Deni...

    INFINITY minus Infinity
  • 1954
    English History: Earliest Times to 1066

    English History: Earliest Times to 1066 (1954)

    English History: Earliest Times to 1066

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    Considers how Anglo-Saxon England was built by many different peoples and cultures. Re-enacts important historical events. Shows authentic landmarks and historical materials from 1900 B C to 1066 A D....

    English History: Earliest Times to 1066