Subgenre Sampler
Age Of Stupid (2009)- Dir. Franny Armstrong
Feat. Pete Postlethwaite - Confronting and dynamic docodrama from the director of McLibel, has Pete Postlethwaite as an archivist in the devastated world of the future, looking…
America Before Columbus (2009)- Intriguing revisionist documentary considers America before Columbus stepped ashore in 1492 as an 'Old World', whose inhabitants had built a vast…
Andrew Marr's The Making of Modern Britain (TV Series) (2009)
- Following on from his "History of Modern Britain", Andrew Marr this time overviews the first half of the 20th Century, re–visiting the dramas…
Christianity - A History (2009)- Reasonably thorough and alternative overview of the origins and divergent paths of Christianity. Eight episodes.
City of Life and Death (2009)- Dir. Chuan Lu
Feat. Ye Liu, Yuanyuan Gao, Hideo Nakaizumi - This first serious depiction of the atrocities wrought on Chinese refugees and soldiers during the occupation of Nanking is a harrowing, expertly…
Darwin's Brave New World (TV Mini-series) (2009)- Feat. Socratis Otto, Richard Jongejan, Nicola Bowman
- Three–part dramatized series tells the story of Charles Darwin and his contemporaries, Joseph Hooker, Thomas Huxley and Alfred Russel Wallace,…
Empire of the Word (2009)- Ambitious, page–turning companion piece to THE ADVENTURE OF ENGLISH chronicles the act of reading across five thousand years of history. Host…
Founding of a Republic, The (Jian guo da ye) (2009)- Dir. Sanping Han, Jianxin Huang
Feat. Guoqiang Tang, Guoli Zhang, Qing Xu… - The People’s Republic of China rolls out the big guns for this 60th anniversary epic, chronicling in big, sweeping gestures, the uprising of Mao…
Hitler's Bodyguard (TV Series) (2009)- 13–part documentary series offering a thorough, at times incredible, examination of the men who protected Adolf Hitler against numerous…
Horrible Histories (TV Series) (2009)- Feat. Mathew Baynton, Simon Farnaby, Sarah Hadland…
- Educational irreverance for kids, offering an unconventional take on history's funniest – and most gruesome – moments in a multitude of…
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