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Stereoscopic photography rapidly became a worldwide craze after the Great Exhibition of 1851. Cheap viewers and mass-produced stereographs brought startlingly vivid images within reach of a mass audience,...
Bamber Gascoigne charts the history and evolution of Christianity in this 13-part series covering over two thousand years of history. Filmed in 1977 in more than 30 countries, THE CHRISTIANS describes the...
Ian McShane plays the 19th century statesman and Tory Prime Minister Benjamin Disraeli in this four-part ITV mini-series centred around his life.
A 3-part television series depicting the story of the war between Britain and France under Napoleon Bonaparte. It was the first ‘world war’ - as empires clashed, five million people died in fighting that...
A BBC documentary commemorating the 200th anniversary of Trafalgar on 21st October, 2005. Computer-generated images help to tell the story of the battle and the story of Horatio Nelson, Britain’s most...
A documentary examining not only the bloody conflict between the French and Coalition armies at Waterloo in 1815, but also the intense rivalry between Napoleon and his nemesis, Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of...
Three-part documentary series chronicling the lives and achievements of a generation of great Victorian engineers. Told through the rivalries of two families, the Stephensons and the Brunels, it also...
A restored, original version of Visconti’s adaptation of the novel by Guiseppe di Lampedusa, set in 1860-62 during the period of Italian unification. It tells the story of an aristocratic Sicilian family...
The classic1974 BBC dramatisation of the declining years and final collapse of three of the most powerful European dynasties - the Hapsburgs, Romanovs and Hohenzollerns - between the mid-19th century and the...
Series looking at the response to industrialisation and exploring how the day-to-day lives its people changed as Britain transformed into an industrialised nation. In five parts, covering: migration and...
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