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Subgenre Sampler
From Scotland With Love (2014)- Scottish history as told through a vast collection of real home movie and archival footage, this is a charming filmic tapestry of everyday family…
Genius of the Ancient World (2014)- Historian Bettany Hughes takes a tour through the ancient world and examines the works of three key philosophers, Socrates, Confucious and Buddha.
Great Fire, The (TV Mini-series) (2014)- Dir. Jon Jones
Feat. Andrew Buchan, Charles Dance, Jack Huston… - Vivid dramatisation of The Great Fire of London that details the stories of a city and its people in crisis..
Intrepid New Zealand (2014)- Ambitious follow–up to Kevin Biggar and Jamie Fitzgerald's FIRST CROSSINGS (2012) finds the pair tackling a new set of legendary journeys…
Pompeii (2014)- Dir. Paul Anderson
Feat. Kit Harington, Carrie-Anne Moss, Emily Browning… - This inglorious disaster epic from the 'other' Paul Anderson imagines the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in tandem with a hoary Ancient Roman melodrama.
Queen Victoria's Letters: A Monarch Unveiled (2014)- A.N. Wilson guides the viewer through revealing look at the life of Queen Victoria, told through a selection of the Monarch's correspondences..
12 Years a Slave (2013)
- Dir. Steve McQueen
Feat. Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael Fassbender, Paul Giamatti… - Steve McQueen (HUNGER, SHAME) directs this powerful historical drama of a free black man from upstate New York who is abducted and sold into slavery.
Beyond the Edge (2013)
- Dir. Leanne Pooley
Feat. Chad Moffitt, Sonam Sherpa - Thrilling, definitive docu–drama on Sir Edmund Hillary's historic 1953 scaling of Everest with sherpa Tenzing Norgay.
Bonnie and Clyde (TV Mini-Series) (2013)- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Emile Hirsch, Holliday Grainger, Sarah Hyland… - The legend of depression era outlaws Clyde Barrow and Bonnie Parker is given the full treatment in this evocative History Channel drama.
Butler, The (2013)- Dir. Lee Daniels
Feat. Forest Whitaker, Oprah Winfrey, Mariah Carey… - A stagy but sincere history of post–war Black America from the point of view of a White House servant (played by Forest Whitaker). It works as…
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