This unique series narrated by Sir Tony Robinson uses home movie archive to reveal life in 20th Century Britain as never seen before. From the Blitz to the Beatles, the last days of steam trains and working canal boats to royal coronations, these filmmakers captured everything. Each episode is devoted to the decades of the Thirties, World War Two, The Fifties and ending with the roaring Sixties.
Watch similar TV shows
on Apple TV+ for free
Anyone who remembers the 60s will know what a dynamic decade it was, home movie makers armed with the newest super 8 cameras and colour film captured so much of that dynamism.
Anyone who remembers the 60s will know what a dynamic decade it was, home movie makers armed with the newest super 8 cameras and colour film captured so much of that dynamism.
As Britain recovered from war and the economy began to flourish, home movie makers captured a country that was changing.
As Britain recovered from war and the economy began to flourish, home movie makers captured a country that was changing.
This is WWIl in a way that's hardly been seen, through the film cameras of some home movie enthusiasts who filmed their friends, family and neighbours as they struggled with a war that was fought on the home front as well as the battle fronts.
This is WWIl in a way that's hardly been seen, through the film cameras of some home movie enthusiasts who filmed their friends, family and neighbours as they struggled with a war that was fought on the home front as well as the battle fronts.
While newsreel cameras were filming political events and world leaders in the 30s, a new breed of amateur film makers were using new, light weight, film cameras and sometimes colour film to capture everyday life in those extraordinary times.
While newsreel cameras were filming political events and world leaders in the 30s, a new breed of amateur film makers were using new, light weight, film cameras and sometimes colour film to capture everyday life in those extraordinary times.
This unique series narrated by Sir Tony Robinson uses home movie archive to reveal life in 20th Century Britain as never seen before. From the Blitz to the Beatles, the last days of steam trains and working canal boats to royal coronations, these filmmakers captured everything. Each episode is devoted to the decades of the Thirties, World War Two, The Fifties and ending with the roaring Sixties.
,
AD
30-day Free Trial, cancel anytime
