BBC television documentaries about history during the 20th Century

Edwardian Farm

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2010 IMDB Rating: 8.8

Edwardian Farm is an historical documentary TV series in twelve parts, first shown on BBC Two from November 2010 to January 2011. It depicts a group of historians trying to run a farm like it was done...

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The Century of the Self

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2002 IMDB Rating: 8.8

The legacy of famed psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud informs the lives of people throughout the world even to this day, though it's a phenomenon to which most are unaware. The film is an exhaustive examina...

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Civilisation

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1969 IMDB Rating: 8.7

Sir Kenneth Clarke guides us through the ages exploring the glorious rise of civilisation in western man. Beginning with the bleakness of the dark ages to the present day, we consider civilisation's a...

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Wartime Farm

Series Age rating: 14 Year: 2012 IMDB Rating: 8.5

Historian Ruth Goodman and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn turn back the clock to run Manor Farm in Hampshire exactly as it would have been during World War II.

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A History of Britain

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2000 IMDB Rating: 8.3

Stretching from the Stone Age to the year 2000, Simon Schama's Complete History of Britain does not pretend to be a definitive chronicle of the turbulent events which buffeted and shaped the British I...

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HyperNormalisation

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2016 IMDB Rating: 8.2

We live in a world where the powerful deceive us. We know they lie. They know we know they lie. They do not care. We say we care, but we do nothing, and nothing ever changes. It is normal. Welcome to...

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Pandora's Box

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 1992 IMDB Rating: 8.2

Pandora's Box is a six-part 1992 BBC documentary television series which examines the consequences of political and technocratic rationalism. The episodes deal, in order, with communism in The Soviet...

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Rise of the Nazis

Series Age rating: n/a Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 8

How did 20th Century Europe's most liberal democracy fall into the hands of fascists? From Hitler's political scheming that turned Germany's parliament into a House of Cards, his War on Truth leading...

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Horror in the East

Series Age rating: 7 Year: 2002 IMDB Rating: 7.7

Horror in the East: Japan and the Atrocities of World War II is a BBC documentary film series that examines certain actions, including atrocities, and attitudes, of the Imperial Japanese Army in the l...

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