FRI: Saving Private Ryan on Film4 at 9pm

NUFF SAID

THU: 7pm on BBC2 - The History of the Home: If Walls Could Talk

3/4 Lucy Worsley examines the bedroom's transition from a communal space to the most private part of the home. She re-creates and visits bedrooms in Medieval times to Post-World Wa Two.

WEDS: Valentine's Day Massacre on Nat Geo a 9pm and more

The killing of seven of Bugs Morans men in 1929 was the end of him and the start of Al Capone being the target of the Feds during Prohibition.

GETTYSBURG - Tuesday to Thursday

A-Level and above recommendation of the great three part made for TV series starring Tom Berenger. Parts 1-3 will be shown on consecutive nights at 7pm on True Movies 1. (Sky321, Virgin424 and F'Sat302)

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TUE: Victorian Pharmacy at 8pm on Yesterday

This great BBC series is now on freeview, every Tuesday. This episode sees the introduction of regulation and examination for budding chemists in the mid-19th century.

MON: Jack the Ripper 2/2 on Five at 9pm

Jack the Ripper - The Definitive Story concludes it's documentary re-creating the original police investigation, with two of the world's leading Ripper experts considering the identity of the killer.

Sunday's History Picks

Football History - Hero: The Bobby Moore Story (8pm/Yesterday)
Antiques Hype - Treasure Quest on Discovery History @11-7pm
Film History - Titanic on Film4 at 5:20pm (12/195mins)
Cold War - K-19 The Widowmaker on Sky Crime at 9:45pm

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Sun: Freedom Riders on Yesterday Channel at 9:55 (25/9/11)

The story of more than 400 Americans who defied racial segregation laws in 1961.

Great documentary which can be used with the Black Peoples of North America with 11-14 year olds and the Civil Rights Movement topics at GCSE and A-Level.

Sat: Saving Private Ryan at 9pm on Film4

Steven Spielberg's fact-based World War II drama starring Tom Hanks, Tom Sizemore and Edward Burns. The amazing sequence of the US troops landing on Omaha beach is graphic, visceral but also truthful. (15-169mins). Good to show the true horror of war.

Saturday's History Picks

6pm on Channel 5 - Zulu Dawn
7pm on Disc. History - Helen of Troy (6th formers recommendation)
7:30pm on 5USA - The Missing (Film - 15 - 137mins)
7:45pm on BBC2 - Dad's Army
8pm on BBC4 - Michael Wood's Story of England (Peasant's education)
8pm on Sky Modern Greats - Braveheart

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Sat: Apollo 13 at 5:15pm on ITV2

Great film, which is a fact based drama about the near disastrous journey to the moon, starring Tom Hanks. (PG - 140mins)

Great film to deliver the slow end of the space race. You could argue it has been in decline since this event.

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Fri: 9pm on BBC2; Digging for Britain

Alice Roberts explore archaeological digs dating back to the Iron Age before the Romans invaded.

Also at 10pm on Yesterday; Dunkirk
The last episode in the docu-drama of Britain's evacuation from the Nazi advance.

Thur: 9pm - Flags of Our Fathers on Film4

Clint Eastwood's World War Two drama explores the story behind the infamous photograph of six soldiers raising the flag during the battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. The battle and it's propaganda aftermath are examined. (15-132mins)

11:35pm on Film4
Letters from Iwo Jima
This flim tells the battle of Iwo Jima from the Japanese perspective, starring Ken Watanbe. (15-134mins)

Thur: 7pm on BBC2 If These Walls Could Talk - History of the Bathroom

2/4 Lucy Worsley does not shy away from the gruesome habits of medieval and Tudor people and the changing attitude towards bath houses and toilets. Some points are fantastic in revealing the real medieval experience.

Later at 9pm on BBC2 The Spitfire.

Wed - Kingdom of Heaven on Film4 at 9pm

Ridley Scott's epic historical drama starring Orlando Bloom. A blacksmith travels to Jerusalem and finds himself tangled in Crusader politics and defending a city against the famed warrior Saladin. (15-144mins)

Tues - Titanic at 9pm on Film4

This Oscar winning blockbuster details the love affair between a poor young artist and a wealthy aristocrat on this doomed ocean liner. (12-195mins)
This film is good for showing the class structure in 1900 after studying the class changes taking place in the industrial revolution.

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Tues: Amistad at 11:35pm on BBC1

Steven Spielberg historical drama starring Morgan Freeman and Anthony Hopkins.

This is a very long film and it has a 15 certificate due to the gruesome scenes of torture and murder on the slave ship. View with caution and realise this is recreation of true events and unfortunately history is often dark and unpleasant. (150mins)

Monday - The Queen's Palaces at 9pm on BBC1

Fiona Bruce explores the history of Windsor Castle from it's beginnings as a fortress to the fire in 1992 that almost destroyed it.

Monday - Tet Offensive on Yesterday at 10pm

This is an episode of the 20th Century Battlefields by Peter and Dan Snow. They investigate and present the Tet Offensive of 1968 using CGI.

Sunday - Downtown Abbey on ITV at 6pm & 9pm

6pm Countrywise - The Real Downtown Abbey
The team explore the history of Highclere Castle where Downtown Abbey is filmed. They uncover a link to Egyptian Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
9pm Downtown Abbey 1/8
The return of the period drama sees the house dealing with the impact of World War I.

Sat - The Other Boleyn Girl at 9:45pm on BBC2

Historical drama based on the best selling novel by Phillippa Gregory which tells of two Tudor sisters who become rivals for the affection of Henry VIII.

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Thurs 9pm on Yesterday - The Real Bonne and Clyde

This loving couple were the more in love with spree killing and robbing banks than they own safety.

Thurs 7pm BBC2: If These Walls Could Talk

Part 1 of 4 sees Lucy Worsley examine The History of the Home and in this episode she looks into the role the living room played in our lives from medieval times to now.
Great show.

WWI: Weds Year 9 & 10 Students watch More4 10:00pm

I will be watching The Somme's Secret Weapon: A Time Team Special on More4 10:00pm Wednesday 14 September

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Weds 9pm BBC1 - Who Do You Think You Are?

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The comedian and chat show host Alan Carr explores his families past and their previous brush with fame.

Tuesday 8pm BBC4 A Renaissance Education: The Schooling of Thomas More's Daughter

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The Normans on YeSTERDAY 9:00pm Monday 12 Sept

Episode 4 of 4 sees the impact of the Domesday Book on the ordinary Britons.

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Operation Crossbow on BBC2 8:00pm Sunday 11 September

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The little know story of spitfire pilots who took 3D photographs of the enemy territory exposing Hitler's deadliest secrets in the process.

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Sunday - Disc. History ROMAN DAY

2pm Hidden History of Rome
3pm Time Team Digs
4pm Tony Robinson's Romans: Julius Caesar
6pm Lost Children of Rome
7pm Hidden History of Rome
8pm Time Team Digs
9pm Tony Robinson's Romans: Caligula

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Friday (2/9/11) Atonement on ITV3 10:00pm

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