War on Film – The American Revolution
Taylor Downing reviews the latest film and television releases.
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War on Film – Goebbels and the Führer
Taylor Downing reviews the latest film and television releases.
War on Film: Western Approaches
In 1941, the Admiralty agreed to support the making of a propaganda film about the Battle of the Atlantic.
The Dig: ‘poetic licence aside’
This is no high-octane adventure romp, but a slow, almost meditative period piece that focuses more on the people involved in the investigation and on the looming threat of the Second World War than it does on the astonishing artefacts that were recovered from Suffolk’s sandy soil.
A Riveting Tale
Netflix has just released The Dig, a major film about the Sutton Hoo excavation. Lindsay Fulcher unearths the story of how Basil Brown uncovered the splendid Anglo-Saxon ship burial and illuminated the so-called ‘Dark Ages’.
The Secret History of Writing
This intelligent, articulate, and visually imaginative three-part BBC documentary series about five millennia of writing – shortened into two parts for US transmission as A to Z in the PBS series NOVA – is particularly welcome, and will probably be watched for many years.
War on Film – The Vietnam War
James H Willbanks gives an insider’s view on the making of The Vietnam War.
The Battle for Hastings: searching for the truth about 1066
Controversy has recently flared over the location of the Battle of Hastings. In an exclusive Channel 4 special, Time Team investigates, undertaking the first ever dig on the traditional site and assessing the rival claimants, as Assistant Producer Alex Rowson reports.
Time Team: the rise and fall of a television phenomenon
Best of all, the cameras were rolling to capture the archaeologists’ euphoria as the geophysical plot emerged from a bulky printer in the back of the survey vehicle.
Digging with the Time Team
What is archaeology alongside a film crew like? Matthew Symonds found out.
A brief history of Time Team
Everybody knows the story of how Time Team started: one ex-teacher turned TV producer, a couple of quirky archaeologists, and a fortuitous meeting in the Mediterranean with one of Britain’s best-loved actors combined to create the most successful archaeology programme ever on British television.