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A list of documentaries covering British history, the Tudor Monarchs and life in Tudor England. Please let me know if you know of any other documentaries about the Tudors.
Digging For Britain
A four part BBC series presented by Dr Alice Roberts who follows a year of British Archaeology, joining up the results of digs and investigations throughout England.
The four parts cover Prehistory, The Romans, The Anglo-Saxons and The Tudors.
More information here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00tjps6
Inside the Body of Henry VIII
Take a journey inside the body of England’s most notorious monarch: Henry VIII. A team of medical experts, biographers, and historians investigate what caused the great physical and mental changes in the king. Was it from diseases such as syphilis, diabetes or malaria? Or could his favorite sport, jousting, have sparked his medical problems? Experts study Henry’s childhood trauma and delve deeper into his lifestyle and adult injuries to better understand this powerful king’s body.
Read more: channel.nationalgeographic.com/episode/inside-the-body-of-henry-viii-4922/Overview#ixzz12U1Kn2l0
Lost Gardens
This series unearths some of Britain’s best garden secrets.?Monty Don introduces a team of gardening experts, historians, landscape gardeners and designers who literally dig up and reconstruct the gardens and return them to their former glory.
In series 1, they unearth the oldest garden in the series, at Shelley Hall, Suffolk. It is a moated Tudor garden created in 1519 by Sir Philip Tilney. He was a member of an ancient knightly family and he became by marriage, a first cousin of Elizabeth I.
The Worst Jobs in History
A series of 6 programmes shown on Channel 4 covering the Worst Jobs in History from the Dark ages to the Victorians. Tony Robinson explores some of the worst royal jobs- very entertaining!
One programme focused on the Tudor Age.
www.channel4.com/programmes/the-worst-jobs-in-history/episode-guide
Time Team
Time Team returns for its 16th series, travelling the country to investigate a wide range of archaeological sites of historical importance.
www.channel4.com/history/microsites/T/timeteam/
The Six Wives of Henry VIII (Four part series)
Four part series presented by David Starkey.
Through dramatic reconstructions and his own passionate narration, Dr David Starkey, the controversial Tudor historian, profiles the six women who married Henry Vlll.
www.channel4.com/programmes/six-wives-of-henry-viii
Henry VIII: The Mind of a Tyrant (Four part series)
Presenting a vivid four-part biography, Dr David Starkey goes inside the mind of Henry VIII. This is not the story of Henry and his six wives, but an unprecedented examination to find out how Prince Charming became Bluebeard, the English Stalin.
www.channel4.com/programmes/henry-viii-the-mind-of-a-tyrant
Castle in the Country- Series 3 (15 episodes dedicated to Burghley House)
A team of experts travel the country exploring the history and significance behind some of Britain’s grandest homes, including the lives of the people from the surrounding areas and their lifestyles.
John Craven and Nicki Chapman explore the treasures in and around the magnificent Burghley House in Lincolnshire.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006mk00
The Supersizers
Restaurant critic Giles Coren and comedian Sue Perkins supersize their way through the cuisine of six different eras in Britain’s history.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00bvr0t
The Supersizers go Elizabethan
Restaurant critic Giles Coren and writer and performer Sue Perkins spend a week going back to the food of Elizabeth I and William Shakespeare. Cooking for them at home is top chef Paul Merrett. Giles puts on his codpiece and Sue makes up like Queen Bess.
They discover the joys of sheep’s head decorated with offal, the dish that bleeds and leaping frog pie. Giles tries some cupping and Sue learns the lute. With so many exciting foods to try out from the New World, our intrepid Supersizers find out just how healthy the Elizabethan diet was.
The Suersizers go Medieval
In this programme, they go back to medieval England to live the life of a Lord and Lady in their country manor.
The Seven Ages of Britain
The story of Britain through its art and treasure.
The Tudor episode looks at the Tudors and spans from Henry VIII’s accession in 1509 to the first performance of Shakespeare’s Henry VIII exactly 100 years later.
David Dimbleby shows how the Tudors used art as an instrument of power and propaganda. Featuring a look at Henry VIII and the lavish, gilded tomb in Westminster Abbey he commissioned for his father; the epic Field of Cloth of Gold painting in Hampton Court made to celebrate his diplomatic triumph over the French; and the extraordinary patron-artist relationship he cultivated with Hans Holbein. Henry favoured blunt statements of power, but his daughter Elizabeth was more subtle.
Dimbleby’s journey also takes in the Reformation, the wreck of the Mary Rose, John White’s extraordinary watercolours of the New World, the mouthwatering Cheapside Hoard, the Spanish Armada, Henry VIII’s armour and Drake’s Drum.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00qxyv0
How we built Britain (Six part television documentary)
A series of six documentaries produced by the BBC, written and presented by David Dimbleby. In the series Dimbleby visits some of Britain’s great historic buildings and examines their impact on Britain’s architectural and social history.
www.bbc.co.uk/britain/programmes/hwbb1.shtml
Elizabeth I (Documentary)
Amazon blurb:
Historian David Starkey charts the amazing story of Queen Elizabeth and her 40 year reign of England. After surviving a dangerous childhood and her treacherous relatives, Elizabeth showed incredible strength to prove that a woman could rule England. Through establishing a national church, overseeing international exploration and resisting the Spanish Armada, Elizabeth turned her country into a major European force. Never less than visually stimulating, this disc contains all four episodes from the television series.
Monarchy
4 series spanning from the Dark ages to the House of Windsor
Dr David Starkey’s complete history of the British Monarchy, which reveals the epic and bloody stories of our Kings and Queens and charts the course of the oldest surviving political institution in Europe.
www.channel4.com/programmes/monarchy