Netflix
Below are some excellent documentaries and series recommended to help you along on your History journey. Just click on the video and enjoy!
The Ancient World 3000BC- 800AD
Horrible Histories: Rotten Romans
Meet the Romans with Mary Beard: All Roads lead to Rome
Horrible Histories: Groovy Greeks
BBC Ancient Greece
The Middle Ages c1000-1500
Magna Carta: Origins of Parliament
Medicine Through Time: Medieval Medicine
BBC Teach: The Norman Conquest
Early Modern Britain c1500-1750
Horrible Histories: Terrifying Tudors
Hunting for History: Elizabeth I
David Starkey: The Stuart Kings
Medicine Through Time: Renaissance Medicine
Industrial Britain c1750-1900
The Children Who Built Victorian Britain
The Great Stink Documentary
BBC Radio 4: Consequences of the Industrial Revolution
Medicine Through Time: Industrial Medicine
Modern Britain c1901 - Present
History Bombs: History of WWI
History Bombs: History of WWII
BBC Teach: Holocaust Memorial Trude's Story
Medicine Through Time: Modern Medicine
Netflix/Amazon Subscriptions
Things to enjoy if you have a Netflix or Amazon subscription. Remember to check the age rating and ask parent's permission first
Elizabeth: The Golden Age
Rating: 12 - Queen Elizabeth steels herself against invasion, treason and betrayal as she pines for the love of swashbuckling adventurer Sir Walter Raleigh.
Who killed Malcolm X?
Rating: 12 - Decades after the assassination of African American leader Malcolm X, an activist embarks on a complex mission seeking truth in the name of justice.
The King's Speech
Rating: 12 - During a tense period in history, King George VI struggles to communicate to the public and seeks help from speech therapist Lionel Logue.
Netflix: Secrets of Great British Castles
Rating: All - Historian Dan Jones explores the millennium of history behind six of Great Britain's most famous castles: Warwick, Dover, Caernarfon, the Tower of London, Carrickfergus, and Stirling.
Netflix: Women at War 1914-1918
Rating - Guidance - Trace the overlapping journeys of exceptional women swept up in World War I and hear their tales of bravery on history's front lines.
Netflix: Women at War 1939-1945
Rating - Guidance - Mothers, nurses, soldiers and deportees -- these women fought against persecution for freedom and survival amid the turbulence of World War II.
The Accountant of Auschwitz
Rating: 12 - Decades after WWII, a former SS officer stands trial in his native Germany after being charged for his complicity in the murder of Jews at Auschwitz.
Twice
Rating: Guidance - This documentary reenacts the experiences of late activist Tsutomu Yamaguchi, a survivor of both atomic bombings on Japan in 1945.
Mercury 13
Rating: U - After rigorous testing in 1961, a small group of skilled female pilots are asked to step aside when only men are selected for spaceflight.
Hitler's Circle of Evil
Rating: 12 - Surviving power struggles, betrayals and plots, Hitler's inner circle of Nazi leaders seizes control of Germany and designs its disastrous future.
JFK: The Making of a President
Rating: All - Explore how John F. Kennedy's worldview was influenced by his younger years, when he endured poor health, family tragedy and a demanding father.
The Russian Revolution
Rating: Guidance - Starting in 1881, this film describes how the personal battle between the royal Romanovs and Lenin's Ulyanov family led to the Russian Revolution.
History 101
Rated: 12 - Infographics and archival footage deliver bite-size history lessons on scientific breakthroughs, social movements and world-changing discoveries.
Limited Time
Only available for a short time
Rome's Lost Empire (Available for 23 days)
Dan Snow uses satellite technology to reveal the secrets of the Roman Empire. Together with space archaeologist Sarah Parcak, Dan sets out to identify and then track down lost cities, amphitheatres and forts in an adventure that sees him travel through some of the most spectacular parts of the vast empire. Cutting-edge technology and traditional archaeology help build a better understanding of how Rome held such a large empire together for so long.
Andrew Marr's History of Modern Britain (Available for 11 months)
Andrew Marr revisits Britain in 1945 and finds the country victorious, but badly beaten up and nearly bankrupt. With astonishing archive and telling anecdote, he tells the story of Britain's extraordinary struggle for national and cultural survival in the post-war world.
Episode 2 - The Land of Lost Content
The second programme in the series explodes the popular image of the 1950s as a golden age of order and prosperity, and of lost content. A Conservative government is back in power. The economy appears to be improving. New homes are being built, the age of mass car ownership is dawning and people have money in their pockets. But 1950s Britain is not as calm as it looks, or as strong.
Presented by Andrew Marr. As the 1960s progress, Harold Wilson takes centre stage in a rapidly changing Britain as the country looks to a fairer, liberated future.
Andrew Marr revisits the Britain of Margaret Thatcher and comes to some surprising conclusions about the British national character.
Pain, Pus and Poison: The Search for Modern Medicines (Available for 10 months)
Michael Mosley tells the story of the creation of our most useful and valuable medicine.
Medical history series. Michael Mosley discovers what pain is and how we were able to control it with the discovery of morphine at the beginning of the 19th century.
Dr Michael Mosley explores our earliest attempts to tackle infection and how scientists, chemists and doctors from Louis Pasteur to Howard Florey helped us win the battle.
Dr Michael Mosley explores how scientists went from finding antidotes to poisons to applying poisons as cures, a story that encompasses the planet's most deadly substances
Six Wives of Henry VIII
Through dramatic reconstructions and his own passionate narration, Dr David Starkey, the controversial Tudor historian, profiles the six women who married Henry Vlll.
This is the story of Catherine of Aragon, a remarkable woman whose refusal to accept a divorce in defiance of Henry VIII's wishes changed the course of English history
The story of Anne Boleyn, who charmed Henry with her seductive French ways and gave him his second daughter
The stories behind Henry's third and fourth wives, Jane Seymour and Anne of Cleves
Dr David Starkey reveals the stories behind Henry's last two wives, Katherine Howard, a teenager with a past, and Catherine Parr, a mature woman who became a mother figure
