Tues 1/12/09: The Queen and Battleffield Britain continue..,

Tuesday 1st December 2009

8pm Yesterday Hitler's Bodyguard

9pm Channel 4: The Queen Part 3
The Rivals The Queen v. Thatcher

9pm Film4 Flags of our Fathers

10pm Yesterday Battlefield Britain
The Battle of Boyne 1690

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Monday 30/11/00: 9pm Channel 4: The Queen Part 2

Monday 30th November 2009
9pm Channel 4: The Queen Part 2
Us and Them The rise of Republicanism

8pm Yesterday Hitler's Bodyguard

9pm Film4 The Thin Red Line (15)

10pm Yesterday Battlefield Britain
1588 Spanish Armada

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SUN 29/11/09: C4 9pm - THE QUEEN Part 1

Dramatic retelling of key events in Elizabeth II's life, beginning with her handling of Princess Margaret's affair with Group Captain Peter Townsend.
ALL THIS WEEK AT 9PM four more stories

SAT 28/11/09: Lots of Shows

8pm National Geo - Icons of Power - Henry VIII
9pm National Geo - Apollo 13 (Documentary)
10pm History - The Plague (Documentary on how the past can inform the future)
9pm FILM4 - Kingdom of Heaven (The Crusades)

Clip from Apollo 13 documentary

Sat 28/11/09: Alexander the Great (Richard Burton - Film 2hrs 30mins)

28/11/09: 12:30pm ITV4 Spartacus

FRI 27/11/09: 9pm BBC2 Andrew Marr's Making of Modern Britain

LINK TO BBC SITE and iPlayer links
Andrew Marr examines Britain in the 1930s, when the financial crash on Wall Street sent shockwaves through the country and brought widespread chaos. As fascism continued its expansion across Europe, politicians at home seemed to choose to ignore the problem, except for the lone voice of Winston Churchill warning of the horrors to come.
Video is a collection from Pathe of newsreels from the 1930s. So cheesy!

Thurs 26/11/09: 8pm Five - The Hunt for Red October: The True Story

Historical documentary exploring the real-life events that inspired the Tom Clancy novel and film, 'The Hunt for Red October'. In 1975, a disgruntled Soviet officer led a mutiny on board a state-of-the-art Russian warship. Unlike the movie captain portrayed by Sean Connery, this maverick sought to cause a revolution in his own land - and almost sparked a war in the process. Great topping to a Cold War Unit
Video is from a book publisher not the episode

WEDS 25/11/09: 4pm & 10pm Yesterday Channel Battlefield Britain - Boudicca

Peter and Dan Snow chart the destruction wrought by Boudicca and her warriors as they clashed with the Roman legions in 60AD. State-of-the-art computer graphics offer an insight into the rebel leader's bloody campaign, from the sacking of Colchester to the final confrontation near St Albans, while the presenters investigate what life was like for fighters on both sides of the battle.

4pm + 10pm Battlefield Britain Boudicca

Sky 537 Virgin 203 Freeview 12

Once again you can be naughty and watch the entire episode in six parts on Youtube. Here is part one below:

Tues 24/11/09: 8pm Yesterday Channel "Hitler's Bodyguard"

Tuesday 24rd November 2009

8pm Yesterday Hitler's Bodyguard
Sky 537 Virgin 203 Freeview 12 - Showing all week at the same time
The series' five episodes reveal how Hitler survived more than 40 assassination attempts due to his handpicked guards.

Hitler's Bodyguard's wife was in fact Jewish! BBC News Link

Quick clip from another series relating to one of his bodyguards.

23/11/09: 9pm Sky 3 - Vic Reeves Investigates Jack the Ripper

Monday 23rd November 2009
9pm Sky3 Vic Reeves Investigates Jack the Ripper
Sky3 - 108 is also on Freeview on 11 and Virgin 122

Be sneaky and catch the entire episode on youtube. Part 1 is available below



If you're expecting belly laughs from comedian Vic Reeves, this investigative documentary will come as a bit of a surprise. It actually does what it says on the tin as Reeves goes into (fairly) straight mode to delve into the series of brutal and bloody murders that rocked London's East End in 1888.

That being said, Reeves adds a touch of theatrical presentation as he explores the labyrinth of passages in London's Whitechapel to uncover the gruesome and horrific killings. And as the investigation proceeds, we discover that Jack may have been a butcher, a doctor, a lunatic, or even an aristocrat.

So can Reeves add significantly to the Jack the Ripper story, and do we get any nearer to uncovering the murderer's identity? With a mix of historians and leading experts, all offering their own take on the case, it's certainly a good starting point if you're not up on mad Jack. And in Reeves, we definitely have a man who wouldn't let it lie.

Weekly Highlights: Magazine and Download

Weekly Highlights for 23rd - 25th November 2009

By clicking on the flash player below you will open an interactive magazine which can be printed out in PDF form (keep the password it gives you). You can also click on the links within the magazine. I will include more links in the future.





Monday 23rd November 2009
9pm Sky3 - Vic Reeves Investigates Jack the Ripper Sky3 - 108 is also on Freeview on 11 and Virgin 122

Tuesday 24rd November 2009
8pm Yesterday Hitler's Bodyguard Sky 537 Virgin 203 Freeview 12 ALL WEEK
The series' five episodes reveal how Hitler survived more than 40 assassination attempts.

Wednesday 24th November 2009
10pm Battlefield Britain Boudicca Sky 537 Virgin 203 Freeview 12
Peter and Dan Snow chart her battles with the Roman legions.
6:15pm Sky Drama Sky 306 Virgin 406 The Boy in Stripped Pyjamas (12)

Sunday 22nd November 2009

Sky Drama 8pm Sky 306 & Virgin 406
THE OTHER BOLEYN GIRL
Historical drama surrounding the affairs of Henry VIII. This film is a
12. Elements can be used in the classroom but there are some dubious
scenes especially near the end.

The History Channel 10pm
Sky 529 & Virgin 234
BATTLES BC: The Battle of Marathon.
The episode looks at the famous story and the defeat of the Persian
forces.
A Classics lesson just waiting to be adapted with this episode.

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Delays due to Car Accident

I will be off for a few days due to a car accident. I am fine and healing well. I will beback on Sunday with a real update and hopefully a new way of sharing my love for historical tv and film. You should be able to view a weekly interactive magazine which you can download or print off as well.
For now here is an interactive and printable/downloadable in PDF form book on the differences between Roundheads and Calaviers using the movie Cromwell as a reference. The pdf file is password protected so make sure you copy the password down.

THURS 19/11/09: 9pm Yesterday Channel (Freeview12) Secrets of World War Two

The Amazing Colonel Doolittle
Revealing some of the lesser known facts about World War II. After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the US embarked on a bombing mission against Tokyo.
Below is a clip of the raid from the movie Pearl Habor

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WEDS 18/11/09: BBC2 9pm Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain

In the 1920s, Imperial Britannia was sliding from view and a more modern Britain tried everything new and asked endless questions about how we should live our lives. A great new age of experiment arrived in politics, writing, art, sex and drugs. Survivors of the Great War threw themselves into the new urban scene of nightclubs, cocktails and jazz, where royalty, gangsters and Hollywood stars rubbed shoulders with new money.

Yes, Marr is a little annoying but the series is okay and can be used in segments in class. Looking at 1920s Jazz Britain one has to think of the USA's Jazz Age. Link to BBC site

However, Britain still had its empire during the 1920s so therefore here is an Empire Day video below



Followed by a clip from Michael Collins. A hero to most, to others something else. Britain was slowly changing.

MON & TUES 16&17/11/09: 9pm Channel 4 The Queen in 3D

The incredible story of young film makers Bob Angell and Arthur Wooster, as they experimented with the technology of the future, using a pioneering 3D camera rig to film a remarkable 3D colour newsreel they named 'Royal Review'.

Episode 2 looks at post war Britain - More footage from the 'Royal Review' shows the Queen, in glorious 3D, arrive at the Derby, the bookies at work, the crowds loving the occasion and the race itself. Would the Queen's own horse, Aureole, win the race? Or would Britain's greatest jockey ever, Gordon Richards, finally triumph after 27 previous Derbys?

VIDEO CLIP IS Part two of Lord Wakehurst's film about the death of King George VI and The Queen's Accession and Coronation. Lord Wakehurst (1895-1970) was a Conservative MP, Governor of New South Wales.

MON 16/11/09: 10pm Yesterday Channel Sven Wonders of the Industrial World

The period of over 125 years from the beginning of the 19th century saw the creation of some of the world's most remarkable feats of engineering.

The wonders described here cover a great range. They include Isambard Kingdom Brunel's extraordinary ship - the Great Eastern, sometimes known as the Crystal Palace of the Seas - which its designer hoped would travel between the two farthest ends of the British empire, and the ground-breaking Panama Canal, which linked the Atlantic and Pacific oceans more than half a century later.

View a clip from the episode below (it is the last ten minutes of the episode so stop at 1:45)

2012: Yes to the Mayans - No to the film

Well, I am late putting up my posts due to the film 2012.

Just leave your brain back in the car park and enjoy the sugar coated devastation of the human race, with the occassional swear word.
View the trailer below and along with a great summary clip from the top series 'What the Ancients Did For Us!" Chichen Itza is a beautiful and scary place.

SUN 15/11/09: ITV2 10:20am Back to the Future III

They've saved the best trip for last... But this time they may have gone too far.

Simple introduction to the Wild West. This PG version of events shows the relative lawlessness of the era.

SUN 15/11/09: C4 9pm Flags of Our Fathers

Directed by Clint Eastwood Produced by Steven Spielberg Screenplay by Paul Haggis Flags of Our Fathers recounts the life stories of the six men who raised the flag at The Battle of Iwo Jima during World War II.

A great film for showing the effect and uses of propaganda.

This film is a 15.

SAT 14/11/09: ITV1 1:10pm - Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure

History is about to be rewritten by two guys who can't spell...

What a great film, which has aged a little but it is still a solid story with great inclusion of Historical figures from the Ancient past to the Wild West. Bill and Ted can be your guide into world history.

FRI 13/11/09: History 7pm - Alexander's Greatest Battles

Michael Wood journeys through Iraq in an attempt to find the location of Alexander the Great's decisive battle against the Persians - a mystery that has baffled historians for centuries.

The video below is from another documentary which is a bit quicker in pace than this show, which is only appropriate for those above 16.

FRI 13/11/09: BBC 2 7pm - Andrew Marr's Modern Britain Ep3

Andrew Marr's epic series charting the events that shaped Britain.
Link to episode 3 on BBC iPlayer


Britain gets its first taste of total war. Marr argues that no shock has ever hit these islands with quite the force of what became known as the Great War. It transformed the lives of the British people - most dramatically the millions who fought on the frontline but also those at home who were bereaved, bombed, uprooted and bankrupted.

With vivid archive and extraordinary anecdotes, Andrew Marr tells the story of Lord Kitchener's volunteer army - the biggest in history. He also describes German gun-boat assaults on the north-east coast of England; the strange disappearance of Britain's First Sea Lord at the height of the war; the first bomb ever to fall on Britain; and the sex scandal that threatened to destroy the British establishment.

THURS 12/11/09: 8pm Sky Movies Family Indiana Jones and The Last Crusade

Great family fun with Nazis!! Nice introduction to History and the Nazi obession with the occult

WEDS 11/11/09: BBC3 7pm Doctor Who

As a new Dalek Empire rises in 1930s New York, the Doctor must enter an unholy alliance.

You can show clips from this showing the slums and Hoovervilles of the time.

Follow the link to an episode preview

Children in the Factories - Animoto

Animoto lets me introduce topics quickly and in an interesting way. I hope you agree with this and check out the video on the 19th century child workers in factories and mines.

"Changeling" All this week on Sky Premiere. Yes I am really back.

Updates will be one or two days ahead, so you can tell friends, students and teachers what is available.

Sky Movies Premiere CHANGELING
8pm and showing the rest of the week...

Angelina Jolie is a telephone operator and single mother who finds herself in a Kafkaesque nightmare when her son goes missing and an indifferent LAPD attempt to fob her off with another boy. Refusing to play along, she discovers hell hath no fury like bent coppers scorned… Following the grand set pieces of Letters from Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood harkens back to the golden era of 1940s melodrama with this sprawling, hard hitting true story of child abduction, police corruption and a fight for justice in 1920s LA.

Great film for showing the life of people during this era

Tues 10/11/09: C4 1pm K-19: The Widowmaker

Based on a real-life incident, Kathryn Bigelow's tense film stars Harrison Ford and Liam Neeson as Alexei Vostrikov, the commander of Russia's first nuclear submarine, and Mikhail Polenin, his executive officer, whose first test voyage ends in disaster when the reactor fails. The only hope is for the crew to repair it at the risk of fatal irradiation.

MON 9/1109: ITV1 10:35pm The Time Machine - Guy Pearce

There is a great sequence in the film where you can see the passage of time.

A 19th-century scientist resolves to prove time travel is possible - and when his fiancee is killed, he embarks on a challenging mission to change the course of history. However, although his time machine works, he is still unable to alter past events - and as he journeys into the future, he finds himself in a terrifying situation. Sci-fi adventure, based on the HG Wells novel, with Guy Pearce and Samantha MumbaFilm/Adventure/War/Science Fiction/Science Fiction

A 19th-century scientist resolves to prove time travel is possible - and when his fiancee is killed, he embarks on a challenging mission to change the course of history. However, although his time machine works, he is still unable to alter past events - and as he journeys into the future, he finds himself in a terrifying situation. Sci-fi adventure, based on the HG Wells novel, with Guy Pearce and Samantha MumbaFilm/Adventure/War/Science Fiction/Science Fiction

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