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King Alfred and the Anglo Saxons
Michael Wood argues that the most important and influential British kings were a father, son and grandson who lived over a thousand years ago during the age of the Vikings.
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How China Got Rich (2019)
Over the last 40 years, China has been transformed out of all recognition. The scale of its growth and the sheer speed of change has been astonishing. The country has seen the largest lifting of people out of poverty that has ever taken place in human history. How did an impoverished and backward communist country become an engine of global capitalism? What lies ahead for this economic behemoth?
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In Search of the Trojan War
Michael Wood examines how far the historical and archeological evidence matches with the tale of the Trojan War.
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The Story of China
Michael Wood embarks on a great historical adventure, exploring the stories, people and landscapes that have helped create China’s distinctive character and genius over four thousand years.
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In The Footsteps of Alexander the Great
In the Footsteps of Alexander the Great was a BBC documentary television series first shown in 1998. It was written and presented by British historian and broadcaster Michael Wood.
Wood retraced the travels of Alexander the Great, from Vergina in Macedonia, where his father Philip II of Macedon died and Alexander was proclaimed king, through seventeen present-day countries to the borders of India and back to Mesopatamia, where he died. Whereas most of Wood’s documentary series had titles beginning “In Search of…”, the title of this series reflected a slightly different approach.
The series was directed by David Wallace.
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Hitler’s Search for the Holy Grail (1999)
The worldwide Nazi search for archaeological and historical support for their beliefs in the Aryan (German) master race.
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The Story of India
The Story of India is a BBC documentary series, written and presented by historian Michael Wood, about the history of India. It was originally aired on BBC Two in six episodes in August and September 2007 as part of the BBC season “India and Pakistan 07”, which marked the 60 years independence of India and Pakistan. An accompanying text to the series, titled Michael Wood: The Story of India, was published by BBC Books on 16 August 2007.
As in most of his documentaries, Michael Wood explains historical events by travelling to the places where they took place, examining archaeological and historical evidence at first hand and interviewing historians and archaeologists, as well as talking with local people.
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Conquistadors
Conquistadors is a documentary retelling of the story of the Spanish expeditions of conquest of the Americas. In this 4-part series historian Michael Wood travels in the footsteps of the Spanish expeditions, from Amazonia to Lake Titicaca, and from the deserts of North Mexico to the heights of Macchu Picchu.
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Michael Wood’s Story Of England
Michael Wood’s Story of England is a six-part BBC documentary series written and presented by Michael Wood which aired from 22 September 2010. It tells the story of one place, the Leicestershire village of Kibworth, throughout the whole of English history from the Roman era to modern times. The series focuses on tracing history through ordinary people in an ordinary English town, with current residents of Kibworth sharing what they know of their ancestors and participating in tracing their history. A four part version aired on PBS in 2012.
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In Search of the Trojan War
In Search of the Trojan War is a 1985 6-part British TV documentary series written and presented by Michael Wood. It examines the extent to which historical and archeological evidence matches with the tale of the Trojan War as recounted by Homer in The Iliad.
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