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Rare film footage, restored and colourised for the first time, provides an intimate window into how everyday Edwardians lived, worked, and socialised. We see the great state occasion of Queen Victoria’s funeral in 1901, footage of life in the Lancashire coalfields, and we also see footage of days out, parades, fun parks, and seaside holidays. Part 1 of 2.
Rare film footage, restored and colourised for the first time, provides an intimate window into how everyday Edwardians lived, worked, and socialised. We see hundreds of workers taking to the streets to fight for better pay and conditions, footage of a football match in Burnley, and the shocking footage of Emily Wilding Davison colliding with the King's horse at the 1913 Epsom Derby. Part 2 of 2.
A remarkable window on one of the most turbulent decades in British history captures a nation determined to remain stable in the face of economic and political chaos across Europe. Part 1 of 3.
In this episode, we explore what everyday life was really like for people in the 30s, the anxiety and political turmoil, but also new opportunities for leisure and increased social freedoms despite looming war. Part 2 of 3.
In this episode, we explore what everyday life was really like for people in the 30s, especially the last unsettled year before war officially began. Part 3 of 3.
Victorian Britain on Film offers audiences a unique window into a bygone era when a thrilling new invention, the motion picture camera, first captures a nation on film. Most of these films have been transformed by colourising them for the first time. They offer a rare portrait of a powerful and prosperous nation - and Empire - on the cusp of great change.
Hiroshima to Kazakhstan – how nuclear powers turned remote lands and marginalised peoples into laboratories of the atomic age, hiding the deadly reality of fallout while perfecting more powerful bombs. It sold the arms race as protection and progress. Part 1 of 2.
The hydrogen bomb age from Bikini to Kazakhstan, the closure of the Soviet Polygon and the broken promises of the Budapest Memorandum. Today, Russia uses nuclear threats to redraw borders and China builds its arsenal unchecked. Part 2 of 2.
Eighty years after the atomic bombings that ushered in the nuclear age, Bombshell explores how the U.S. government manipulated the narrative about the human impact of the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki during World War II.
Maiya May returns to Florida to learn how climate change is impacting ocean currents. She then goes to Georgia to meet Stacey Abrahms and learn about a non-profit. Later, Maiya returns to Florida to learn about nature. Part 6 of 6.
