Writer Sathnam Sanghera travels across the country exploring the effects of the British Empire on modern Britain
The British Empire in Colour is a major three part series that examines the history and experience of the British Empire, form the perspectives of both the rulers and the ruled. Using original colour archive film - much of which had never previously been seen - together with personal letters and diary extracts helping to capture the many complexities and contradictions of life in the British Empire.
London 1814: James Keziah Delaney kehrt nach einem 10-jährigen Aufenthalt in Afrika nach London zurück. Dort will er das Erbe seines Vaters antreten, allerdings wird er selbst längst für tot gehalten und um das Erbe wird erbittert gekämpft. Zudem ranken sich jede Menge Mythen um seine Rückkehr und so muss er sich scheinbar übermächtigen Gegnern stellen, um seinen eigenen Kopf zu retten ...
Charles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with members of the Flytes, a Catholic family of aristocrats, over the course of several years between the two world wars.
1816 besteigt Zulu Shaka den Thron. 1787 als unehelicher Sohn einer verstoßenen Prinzessin geboren (die Rolle des jungen Shaka spielt Celes eigener Sohn) wird unter seiner Regierung aus dem politisch unbedeutenden Stamm eine afrikanische Großmacht. Charles Sommerset (Trevor Howard, „Ghandi“), Gouverneur der britischen Besatzer, alarmiert London. Aber King George IV. weigert sich zu glauben, dass ein „Haufen afrikanischer Wilder“ zu einer Bedrohung für sein Empire werden könnte. Eine gefährliche Unterschätzung, wie sich bald herausstellt. In seiner Not beauftragt Sommerset Francis Farwell (Edward Fox) mit dem gefürchteten Zulukönig Kontakt aufzunehmen.
Empire is a major five-part series presented by Jeremy Paxman. It tells the story of the British Empire in a new way, tracing not only the rise and fall of the empire but also the complex effects of the empire on the modern world – political, technological and social – and on Britain.
This is the story of two wars fought at the same time on opposite ends of the globe, often mislabeled as a single war: The Second World War. These conflicts remade our world in just a few decades. A story of how the rise and fall of great powers, from Nazi Germany to Imperial Japan, recast nations into those who could afford, and those that could not afford The Price of Empire.
As a young reporter, David Dimbleby made three Panorama films on Rhodesia between 1967 and 1968, following its Unilateral Declaration of Independence. This three-part series tells the inside story of white Rhodesia's revolt against the British crown and the long battle to bring full democracy to an independent Zimbabwe.
Seven Ages of Britain is a BBC television documentary series which is written and presented by David Dimbleby. The seven part series was first aired on Sunday nights at 9:00pm on BBC One starting on 31 January 2010.
The series covers the history of Britain's greatest art and artefacts over the past 2000 years. Each episode covers a different period in British history. In Australia, all seven episodes aired on ABC1 each Tuesday at 8:30pm from 7 September 2010.