TV series
Reel History of Britain
2011 · 1 season
A gentle, nostalgic archive-led stroll through ordinary lives, warm and unhurried, with quiet emotional pull.
- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Melvyn Bragg
- Overview
- Reel History of Britain is a 20 part series being shown on BBC Two, presented by Melvyn Bragg and about the history of modern Britain; through the eyes of people who were there. It was shown from 5–30 September 2011. The programme is a social history documentary, charting the course of the twentieth century through archive film, plus interviews and recollections of key events that have taken place in the last one-hundred years, since the advent of moving film. In each episode, Bragg goes to a different place in the UK and shows people film in a 1950s Ministry of Technology mobile cinema, then gauges their reactions and captures them on film.
- How it feels
- Measured and needs your attention.
- About
- Memory, class, work, family
- Content
- No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
- Note
- Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown
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- Genres
- Documentary
- Starring
- Melvyn Bragg
