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👉 CALL THE MIDWIFE'S SECRET RADICALISM 👈
& talk to national treasure Stephen McGann about untold histories, the medical reports of the East End, and why so many actors spend so much time mumbling.
Head to the link in our bio to listen or grab it wherever you usually get your podcasts 😎
Each episode, our guest leaves behind a historical film/TV show they LOVE for our club library 💙
Historian and Professor of International History at the London School of Economics and Political Science, Marc Baer's pick? Anne With An E (2017-2019)
The adventures of a young orphan girl living in the early 19th century. Follow Anne as she learns to navigate her new life on Prince Edward Island, in this new take on L.M. Montgomery's classic novels 📖
8.7 on IMDb ✨
What would you add to our club library? 😎
History Film Club | The podcast for people who really, really love historical film & TV 💙
Each episode, our guest leaves behind a historical film/TV show they LOVE for our club library 💙
Intimacy Coordinator, ? Sharpe (1993-2008)
A series of stories starring Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe, a fictional British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars as he fights both Napoleon's forces and the strong prejudice of British aristocracy 🇬🇧
8.4 on IMDb ✨
What would you add to our club library? 😎
History Film Club | The podcast for people who really, really love historical film & TV 💙
Each episode, our guests are asked to BAN something that annoys them from our club library 💙
For Professor Kim Ati Wagner? Well... we toyed with the redemptive narrative arc but that would exclude quite a lot 🤣
Hannah suggested manly tears so we went with that!
What would you ban?
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Each episode, our guests are asked to BAN something that annoys them from our club library 💙
For ? Close ups of someone riding an obviously fake horse 🐴🤬
What would you ban?
😡
History Film Club | The podcast for people who really, really love historical film & TV 💙
Each episode, our guest leaves behind a historical film/TV show they LOVE for our club library 💙
Co-Founder, CEO, and Creative Director of , Horse Trainer for , and host of@futureimppod, 's pick? The Three Musketeers (1973) 🗡
A young swordsman comes to Paris and faces villains, romance, adventure and intrigue with three Musketeer friends ⚔️
7.1 on IMDb ✨
Oliver Reed was severely injured and almost died when he was stabbed in the throat during the windmill duel scene 😬
What would you add to our club library?
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History Film Club | The podcast for people who really, really love historical film & TV 💙
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jnr. 🤝 David Oyelowo
A chronicle of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s campaign to secure equal voting rights via an epic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, in 1965 (Selma, 2014) 🍿
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Benediction explores the turbulent life of legendary First World War poet, Siegfried Sassoon, through the eyes of the revered filmmaker .
Starring as Glen Byam Shaw, .lowden as young Siegfried Sassoon, and Peter Capaldi as Siegfried Sassoon!
We love the last picture 😅
Release date: Tomorrow! (Friday 20th May) 📽️
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Becoming Elizabeth follows Elizabeth Tudor, an orphaned teenager who becomes embroiled in the political and sexual politics of the English court on her journey to secure the crown.
Starring Alicia von Rittberg and Jamie Parker!
We can't wait for the first episode on STARZ next month 🤩
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America's secret war in the Caribbean during the Cold War is revealed as never before in this riveting story of the machinations and blunders of superpowers, and the daring of the mavericks who took them on.
During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson, the Caribbean was in crisis, while the United States and the USSR acted out the world's rising tensions in its island nations.
Meanwhile the leaders of these nations - the charismatic Fidel Castro, and his mysterious brother Raul; the ideologue Che Guevara; the capricious psychopath Rafael Trujillo; and Francois 'Papa Doc' Duvalier, a buttoned-down doctor with interests in Vodou, embezzlement and torture - had ambitions of their own.
Alex von Tunzelmann's brilliant narrative follows these five rivals and accomplices from the beginning of the Cold War to its end. The superpowers thought they could use these Caribbean leaders as puppets, but what neither bargained on was that their puppets would come to life.
The United States, in its all-consuming fight against communism, stumbled into one disaster after another. First, with the Bay of Pigs, and then with the Cuban Missile Crisis, it helped bring the world as close to catastrophic nuclear war as it has ever been.
RED HEAT is an authoritative and eye-opening account of a wildly dramatic and dangerous era of international politics that has unmistakable resonance today.
WHY DO WE LOVE THE TUDORS ON FILM? 👑 (S1:E13)
and chat to about codpieces, the Armada, and the best representations of the Tudors on film.
Can you name any of the ones pictured here? 👀
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Recently windowed from her abusive husband, The Essex Serpent follows Cora Seaborne.
She relocates from Victorian London to the small village of Aldwinter in Essex, intrigued by a local superstition that a mythical creature has returned to the area.
Starring and , will premiere on on Friday 13th May!
Will you be watching?
The stroke of midnight on 15 August 1947 liberated 400 million Indians from the British Empire.
One of the defining moments of world history had been brought about by a tiny number of people, including;
• Jawaharlal Nehru, the fiery prime minister-to-be
• Gandhi, the mystical figure who enthralled a nation
• Louis and Edwina Mountbatten, the glamorous but unlikely couple who had been dispatched to get Britain out of India without delay.
Within hours of the midnight chimes, however, the two new nations of India and Pakistan would descend into anarchy and terror.
INDIAN SUMMER depicts the epic sweep of events that ripped apart the greatest empire the world has ever seen, and reveals the secrets of the most powerful players on the world stage: the Cold War conspiracies, the private deals, and the intense and clandestine love affair between the wife of the last viceroy and the first prime minister of free India.
With wit, insight and a sharp eye for detail, relates how a handful of people changed the world for ever.
WHO IS THE BEST ROBERT DUDLEY? 👑
In this brand new episode, chats with our hosts, and , about the Dudleys, Elizabeths, and ostrich feather fans on film.
🔍 , , , , or wherever you get your podcasts!
NEW RELEASE 🗓
: A New Era is out today!
In this film, The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the South of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa.
You can watch it in cinemas now 🎞
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We're so proud that one of our hosts, , has been shortlisted for the Wolfson History Prize 2022!
Series two guest, Marc David Baer, is also among the nominees 🤩
Awarded by the Wolfson Foundation annually for fifty years, the Wolfson History Prize is the UK’s most prestigious history prize.
It recognises and celebrates books which combine excellence in research with readability.
The winner will be announced on 22nd June 2022!
WHO IS THE BEST ROBERT DUDLEY? 👑
In this brand new episode, chats with our hosts, and , about the Dudleys, Elizabeths, and ostrich feather fans on film.
🔍 , , , , or wherever you get your podcasts!
This week, we’ve been revisiting the 2013 film, Belle.
This movie was inspired by the true story of Dido Elizabeth Belle, played by , the illegitimate mixed race daughter of Royal Navy Captain Sir John Lindsay, played by Matthew Goode.
Raised by her aristocratic great-uncle Lord William Murray, 1st Earl of Mansfield, played by Tom Wilkinson, and his wife, played by Emily Watson, Belle’s lineage affords her certain privileges, yet the colour of her skin prevents her from fully participating in the traditions of her social standing.
Left to wonder if she will ever find love, Belle falls for an idealistic young vicar’s son bent on change, who, with her help, shapes Lord Mansfield’s role as Lord Chief Justice to end slavery in England.
The film also features as James Ashford and as Oliver Ashford 🤩
chose the film for our club library and our very own has written a wonderful review for her Reel History column with !
As if you needed convincing... 🍿
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Out tomorrow, is a modern take on the 1970s political Watergate scandal, focusing on untold stories and forgotten characters of the time.
The mini-series will last for 8 episodes on .
Cast members include...
✨ Julia Roberts
✨ Sean Penn
✨ Betty Gilpin
✨ Dan Stevens
© 2021 Starz Entertainment
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1. ADORMIDERA 🚷 (2013) ⚠️ 12
A group of five surviving soldiers in the late 1300’s are returning home, however along the journey they encounter an unforeseen turn of events.
2. BRIDGERTON 🔥 (2022) ⚠️ 15
The second series of wealth, lust, and betrayal set against the backdrop of Regency-era England, seen through the eyes of the powerful Bridgerton family.
3. AGAINST THE ICE ❄️ (2022) ⚠️ 12
In 1909, two explorers fight to survive after they’re left behind while on a Denmark expedition in ice-covered Greenland.
4. THE GREAT GATSBY 🍸 (2013) ⚠️ 12
A writer and wall street trader, Nick, finds himself drawn to the past and lifestyle of his millionaire neighbour, Jay Gatsby.
5. THE DIG ⛏ (2021) ⚠️ 12
An archaeologist embarks on the historically important excavation of Sutton Hoo in 1938.
© Great Siege Productions, Netflix Inc., Bazmark III Pty Limited.
Series 5 of is now out on ! 🥳
Based on novels of Bernard Cornwell, this historical drama is set in the late 800- early 900AD and focuses on the Kingdom of Wessex's resistance to the Viking incursions.
Although this will be the final series of the show, it won't be the last time we see Alexander Dreymon as the ruthless Uthred. Filming has begun on a Last Kingdom film - Seven Kings Must Die - which is set to conclude the story.
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2022 marks 50 years since The Godfather was first released in theatres 🤯
It is now considered one of the greatest films ever made.
Set after World War II, the film follows the journey of Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) as mafia leader until his death, and his son Michael (Al Pacino) who goes from reluctant outsider to ruthless mafia boss.
In celebration of its 50th anniversary, the film has been remastered and is being shown again in theatres across the globe! 🥳
© Image from RV1864/Flickr under CC BY-NC-ND 2.0
Today marks 7 years since first aired on !
Since then it has garnered a cult following with many loving the relationship between Aidan Turner's Ross Poldark and Eleanor Tomlinson's Demelza 🥺
Did you know that our very own was historical consultant to the show? 🤩
Based on the books of Winston Graham, the show ran for 6 series before it finished in 2019.
Who else misses this being on our TV screens?
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On 7th March 2010, Kathryn Bigelow made history as she became the first woman to win Best Director at the for The Hurt Locker.
Starring Jeremy Renner, Anthony Mackie and Ralph Fiennes – the film follows an Explosive Exposal team during the Iraq War who are targeted by insurgents. The film explores the psychology of those who served during the war, especially in bomb disarmament.
The film was nominated for nine awards and picked up six – including Best Picture and Best Original Screenplay.
©️ Images by david.torcivia, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0/Fan the Fire Magazine, licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0/sinemabed, licensed under CC BY 2.0
returns for its sixth season on 6th March!
If you haven't seen the series, Claire Randall (Catriona Balfe) - a Second World War nurse from Scotland - is transported back in time to 1743 Scotland, where she falls into a group of Highlanders supporting the Jacobite cause.
The sixth season will continue to take place in North Carolina, in the aftermath of a intense season five finale.
Will Claire and beau Jamie Fraser (Sam Heughan) be able to keep their family and Fraser's Ridge safe from the looming prospect of the American Revolutionary War?
©️ Image by Marion Brégier, licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0
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If yesterday's launch of Vikings: Valhalla didn't fully whet your appetite for mediaeval adventure, Alex von Tunzelmann has got just the thing for you... if you like furry earmuffs, horned hats, and terrible films. ➡️ https://www.theguardian.com/film/filmblog/2013/jul/04/the-norseman-reel-history
* FROM THE ARCHIVE * Want to get (even more) in the mood for the new series of @peakyblindersofficial? @alexvontunzelmann and @hannahgreighistory have been chatting to the executive producer, Jamie Glazebrook... 🎧 Listen on your favourite podcast provider or find the link in our bio 💙
* FROM THE ARCHIVE * Want to get (even more) in the mood for the new series of Peaky Blinders? Alex von Tunzelmann and Hannah Greig have been chatting to the executive producer, Jamie Glazebrook... 🎧 🎧 https://shows.acast.com/history-film-club/episodes/jamie-glazebrook-speed-music-haircuts-in-peaky-blinders
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* FROM THE ARCHIVE * In readiness for the Call the Midwife finale this weekend, we're re-listening to Alex von Tunzelmann and Hannah Greig's chat with the lovely Stephen McGann. All things untold histories, medical reports of the East End, and mumbling. 🎧 https://shows.acast.com/history-film-club/episodes/stephen-mcgann-call-the-midwifes-secret-radicalism
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MUNICH - THE EDGE OF WAR is out now at cinemas and on Netflix! 📺 We're on it... Alex has written a gem over at The Guardian 💙 🖱 https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/dec/15/hitler-chamberlain-munich-edge-reason-robert-harris-jeremy-irons
Last year, @alexvontunzelmann and @hannahgreighistory chatted with the lovely @sixteenthcgirl about codpieces, the Armada, and the best representations of the Tudors on film. 🎧 Listen via the link in our story! #historyfilmclub
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* FROM THE ARCHIVE * Last summer, Alex and Hannah were joined by Joy C. Mitchell to talk being an on-set writer for Bridgerton, making soundtracks for writing period dramas, and mood boards. 🎧 https://shows.acast.com/history-film-club/episodes/what-does-an-on-set-writer-do-with-joy-c-mitchell
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