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House of Windsor, The (TV Series)House of Windsor, The (TV Series) (1994)
The story of the most famous family in the world – from the reign of the first Windsors, King George V and Queen Mary, to the long rule of…
Time Team (TV Series) Time Team (TV Series) (1994)
Feat. Tony Robinson
Stimulating television series featuring a group of enthusiastic archaeologists unearthing the secrets of British history from overlooked areas of…
Monocled Mutineer, The (TV Mini-series)Monocled Mutineer, The (TV Mini-series) (1986)
Dir. Jim O'Brien
Feat. Paul McGann, Robert Fellows
A four–part BBC historical drama depicting the life of Private Percy Toplis, who supposedly led a British army mutiny against training officers…
Peter the Great (TV Mini-Series)Peter the Great (TV Mini-Series) (1986)
Feat. Maximilian Schell, Vanessa Redgrave, Omar Sharif
Emmy Award–winning mini–series about Peter I, Tsar of Russia from 1682, and his efforts to transform Russia in an "all European" country,…
Dunera Boys, The (Mini-series)Dunera Boys, The (Mini-series) (1985) Recommended
Dir. Ben Lewin
Feat. Bob Hoskins, Warren Mitchell, Julia Blake
WW2 set mini–series following a group of suspected Jewish spies sent from England to a POW camp in NSW, Australia. Nicely balanced historical…
In Search of the Trojan WarIn Search of the Trojan War (1985)
Dir. Bill Lyons
A thorough, intelligible excavation of Homer’s epic poems and the speculation of a Trojan Society, historian Michael Wood takes us back in time via…
Nancy Astor (TV Mini-series)Nancy Astor (TV Mini-series) (1982)
Dir. Richard Stroud
Feat. Lisa Harrow, Pierce Brosnan
Rags–to–riches biography of the life of Nancy Astor, the first woman to hold a seat in the house of commons.
Scarlet Pimpernel, The (TV Mini-Series)Scarlet Pimpernel, The (TV Mini-Series) (1982)
Dir. Clive Donner
Feat. Anthony Andrews, Jane Seymour, Ian McKellen
Top–notch mini–series version of the classic tale of The Scarlet Pimpernel – an English nobleman who lived a double–life…
Our Heritage (TV Series)Our Heritage (TV Series) (1981)
A unique series of television snippets, in which seven ballads by legendary Waitakere historian Jack Diamond are recited over historical imagery and…
Oppenheimer (TV Mini-series)Oppenheimer (TV Mini-series) (1980)
Dir. Barry Davis
Feat. Sam Waterston, Shane Rimmer, David Suchet
Excellent mini–series starring Waterson as nuclear physicist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who helped build the atomic bomb for the 'Manhattan…

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