Wed 1/9/10: 9pm Battlefield Britain on Yesterday Channel

Battlefield Britain
The Battle Against the Spanish Armada
Peter and Dan Snow relive the first great British sea battle, in which Francis Drake led a small English navy against the vast Spanish fleet.

Tue 31/8/10: 10pm Nazi Hunters on The History Channel

Erich Priebke: The thrilling story of how journalists brought the escaped Nazi orchestrator of the Ardeatine cave massacres to justice, after finding his address in an Argentine phonebook. Also in HD
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HTV is BACK! MONDAY MADNESS

Well I'm back just before many of you get back to school! This Monday is History Madness as there are tons of good programming. Here is my summation below;
Channel 4 12:45pm Tora! Tora! Tora! (U - 160mins)

BBC 2 7pm Dan Snow's Norman Walks (3/3)

HISTORY 8pm America: The Story of US - New Series

BBC 1 9pm Who Do You Think You Are? Jason Donavan

BBC 1 11:25pm Churchill: The Hollywood Years (15 -85mins)
Interesting parody!
Nazis on Yesterday! (Sky 537/Virgin 203/Freeview12)
12noon Baddiel and the Missing Nazi Billions
1pm-7pm The Nazis: A Warning from History
7pm -1am The Nazis: A Warning from History repeated
7pm Hitler's Rise
8pm Goering's Gestapo
9pm Progress to Wr
10pm Racial purity in Poland

MON 23/8/10: 9pm BBC1 Who Do You Think You Are?

Comedian Alexander Armstrong always knew his family background was likely to be privileged, but he's keen to find out exactly how posh he is...

Appropriately enough Alexander's journey begins with Burke's Irish Landed Gentry, a register of Britain's landed families. He quickly finds his own name listed under his mother's family name, McCausland, and decides to follow this line to find out more. Moving up the family tree he finds a relative who holds an honoured position in the Royal household of the day.

Fri 20/8/10: 8pm Infamous Assassinations on Yesterday Channel

1/2 hour program on the murder of Michael Collins.

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Thu 19/8/10: 9pm BBC2 Digging for Britain

Archaeological digs shed new light on British history.

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Wed 18/8/10 9pm BBC2 The Normans

Last episode focuses or their expansion throughout Europe and the Middle-East.
10pm BBC4 Dan Snow's Norman Walks - looks at the north of England.

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Tue 17/8/10: 9pm BBC4 The Making of King Arthur

The role of Arthurian legends in Britain's national consciousness and how they grew in response to the Norman Invasion.

SUN 15/8/10: 11am - Tony Robinson's ROMANS on Knowledge ALL DAY

Its all Romans all day on the Discovery Knowledge Channel
Tony Robinson goes on a 2,000-mile quest to investigate the epic life and death of one of the monumental figures of history - Julius Caesar.

12:00 Julius Caesar - Part 2
13:00 Caligula
14:00 Nero

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SAT 14/8/10 2:35pm More 4 Galipoli

Great Film which shows the futility of war and a young Mel Gibson.
Heartbreaking ending. (PG)
Two Australian sprinters face the brutal realities of war when they are sent to fight in the Gallipoli campaign in Turkey during World War I.
Remember Elizabeth is on at 7pm then the Queen 4/5 at 8pm

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FRI 13/8/10: 9pm Film 4 - Enemy at the Gates

Enemy at the Gates is a 2001 war film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud, starring Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes and Ed Harris set during the Battle of Stalingrad in World War II.

The film's title is taken from William Craig's 1973 nonfiction book Enemy at the Gates: The Battle for Stalingrad, which describes the events surrounding the Battle of Stalingrad from 1942–1943.[2] It is based on a duel mentioned in the book that developed between Soviet sniper Vasily Grigoryevich Zaitsev and his German counterpart, Major Erwin König, as they stalk each other during the battle. The movie is also partially based on the book War of the Rats.
also Sky Crime has Valkryie at 9pm

THUR 12/8/10 BBC2 9pm Victorian Pharmacy 4/4 (Last Episode)

The last programme in the series sees Ruth, Tom and Nick continue with Barber and Goodman's Pharmacy through to the end of the Victorian era.

Tom branches out into photography and dentistry using the latest technology, such as the foot-pedal dental drill. Ruth makes condoms out of sheep's intestines. Nick learns how to make the Victorian version of aspirin - producing a cure for warts and corns along the way. And for those customers who like a little pampering, the team turn their hands to making their very own brand of perfume.

News report on 150 year old method of pill making

WED 11/8/10: 9pm BBC2 - The Normans

In the second of this three-part series, Professor Robert Bartlett explores the impact of the Norman Conquest of Britain and Ireland. Bartlett shows how William the Conqueror imposed a new aristocracy, savagely cut down opposition and built scores of castles and cathedrals to intimidate and control. He also commissioned the Domesday Book, the greatest national survey of England that had ever been attempted.
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Domesday repeated at 11:20pm

TUES 10/8/10: 10pm History Channel - Nazi Hunters

Adolf Eichmann

Known as the architect of Hitler’s ‘Final Solution’ and directly culpable for the murder of six million Jews, the former Lieutenant Colonel of the SS is now himself a hunted man.

By 1960, one of the world’s most notorious Nazi war criminals, Adolf Eichmann, is living incognito with his family on the outskirts of Buenos Aires under the alias Ricardo Klement. Known as the architect of Hitler’s ‘Final Solution’ and directly culpable for the murder of six million Jews, the former Lieutenant Colonel of the SS is now himself a hunted man.

Watch footage of him on trial

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TUES 10/8/10: 8pm BBC 2 - Domesday

You have to do some real editing to make this exciting for Year 7 students

Historian Stephen Baxter explores his own theory that the Domesday Book was commissioned to confer revolutionary powers on the monarchy in the 11th century, and not intended as a means to collect taxes. He examines how the first great national survey, which recorded who owned every piece of land and property in England, was a massive logistical exercise, which documented the traumatic impact of the Norman Conquest

BBC Normans Site

11:50pm The Normans Part 1 of 3 (repeat)

MON 9/8/10: BBC1 9pm Who Do You Think You Are?

Nine celebrities trace their family trees to explore the lives of their ancestors and uncover major themes in British social history.

Famous gardener Monty Don comes from a well-known dynasty of architects on his mother's side of the family, but knows little about his other relatives.

REPEATED ON FRIDAY

THE WAR 9pm ALL WEEK on the Yesterday Channel (ww2 Doc)

SUN 8/8/10: 9pm Film4 - The Untouchables (Repeated Thursday)

Great film to show to explain the system of bootlegging. Long film to show in its enterity in class but you can skip large chunks to get to the action scenes and the corruption points. This film is a 15.

Kevin Costner is law man Eliot Ness, who assembles a team to give Al Capone & Co a good seeing-to. While the premise provides plenty of opportunities for Mamet's clever script writing to shine, a couple of disappointing performances, especially Robert De Niro's Capone, dampen the high spirits of the film. De Palma directs like a kid who hasn't been allowed to play with his favourite toy, the movie camera.
REPEATED ON THURSDAY

SAT 7/8/10: 8pm Channel 4 - The Queen Episode 3

This episode lifts the lid on the hidden conflict between the Queen (played by Susan Jameson) and her first female Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher (played by Lesley Manville).

The Queen and Mrs Thatcher were the two most powerful women in Britain and their strained relationship reached boiling point on 20 July 1986, when the Sunday Times published an explosive cover story.

The article revealed what was claimed to be the Queen's opinion of Mrs Thatcher, and it made for uncomfortable reading in Downing Street. The Queen was portrayed as being fundamentally opposed to Mrs Thatcher's policies, and as being concerned about the 'uncaring and divisive' nature of the Thatcher regime.

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FRI 6/8/10: ITV2 10pm TROY

Solid film which does have some graphic violence so be careful when showing this film to teenagers.

It is the year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age. Two emerging nations begin to clash after Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was taken by the Trojans, he asks his brother Agamemnom to help him get her back. Agamemnon sees this as an opportunity for power. So they set off with 1,000 ships holding 50,000 Greeks to Troy. With the help of Achilles, the Greeks are able to fight the never before defeated Trojans. But they come to a stop by Hector, Prince of Troy. The whole movie shows their battle struggles, and the foreshadowing of fate in this remake by Wolfgang Petersen of Homer's "The Iliad." Written by Mensur Gjonbalaj

& REPEAT Irish actress Dervla Kirwan became a household name in the hit series Ballykissangel. But she has never spoken about her great-uncle Michael Collins, a national figure who changed Irish history and fought to establish the Irish Free State. Dervla wants to find out how her grandfather Finian, Michael's nephew, fits into the events shaped by his famous uncle. BBC2 7pm

THUR 5/8/10 BBC2 9pm Victorian Pharmacy

The pharmacy enters a period of new inventions and new laws. In 1868 pharmacies were regulated by law for the very first time - and Ruth, Tom and Nick face a taste of the tough examinations pharmacists went through to become qualified.
Visit the BBC Site to watch it in iPlayer and find out more.

TUE 3/8/10 8pm on Yesterday - Inventions that Changed the World

There would be no guns without gunpowder, the volatile mixture of saltpetre (potassium nitrate), charcoal and sulphur that came to Europe in the 14th century. Chinese chemists were experimenting with early forms of gunpowder by the 9th century or even earlier. Mixing gunpowder was a tricky procedure largely carried out by hand under the constant threat of accidental explosions. Gunpowder production was as dirty as it was dangerous.
The series is on all week and only snippets are useful in an academic setting. However the implications of small items are really examined in the micro and macro sense. The sereis continues a week.

MON 2/8/09 9pm BBC1 - Who You Thinks You Are?

Iish actress Dervla Kirwan became a household name in the hit series Ballykissangel. But she has never spoken about her great-uncle Michael Collins, a national figure who changed Irish history and fought to establish the Irish Free State. Dervla wants to find out how her grandfather Finian, Michael's nephew, fits into the events shaped by his famous uncle.

Watch the previous episode here


Trailer for the Michael Collins film