• 1974
  • 50m
Churchill's People

Summary A historical anthology series based on "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples", Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies. View more details

  • 1974
  • 50m

Churchill's People

Directed : Unknown

Written : Unknown

Stars : Alfred Lynch Bernard Hepton Geoffrey Matthews Mark Donaldson

All cast & crew

5.8

Details

Genres : Drama History War

Release date : Dec 29, 1974

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

Summary A historical anthology series based on "A History of the English-Speaking Peoples", Winston Churchill's four-volume history of Britain and its former colonies. View more details

Details

Genres : Drama History War

Release date : Dec 29, 1974

Countries of origin : United Kingdom

Language : English

Production companies : British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC)

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Episodes

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Episode 1 • Dec 29, 1974
Pritan
43 AD: Lucius is one of several Roman spies sent into the offshore island of Pritan, quietly to study the ground before plans for the invasion by the Emperor Claudius.
Episode 2 • Jan 05, 1975
The Lost Island
400 AD: Among the splendours of his palace at Eboricum (York), Tiberius Claudius the Roman British governor the Province broods on what he believes to be the end of the civilised world.
Episode 3 • Jan 12, 1975
The Coming of the Cross
654 AD: Two powerful adversaries face each other - Penda, pagan king of Mercia, and Oswy, Christian king of Northumbria.
Episode 4 • Jan 19, 1975
King Alfred
878 AD: King Alfred has suffered another defeat from the Danes and escapes through the Athelrey swamps to the safety of Odda's Hall. Disguised as a minstrel, Alfred enters the headquarters of the Viking invaders.
Episode 5 • Jan 26, 1975
The Saxon Dusk
1042: Godwin, Earl of Wessex, summons Edward from out of his exile in Normandy to wear the Crown of England. But the apparent security of Godwin's Anglo-Saxan policies is disrupted by Edward's partiality for a French connection.
Episode 6 • Feb 02, 1975
The Conquerors
1066-1070: Forest laws bring about a climax between the Saxons and the Normans.
Episode 7 • Feb 09, 1975
A Sprig of Broom
1160: In Norman England, a man could will his movables to his kin and friends but only the next heir could inherit his land paying the overlord for the privilege.
Episode 8 • Feb 16, 1975
Silver Giant, Wooden Dwarf
1215: King John is brought to his knees and signs the Magna Carta.
Episode 9 • Feb 23, 1975
On the Anvil
1265: A runaway peasant accidentally witnesses a meeting between King Henry III and his chief Baron Simon de Montfort. Their argument indicates that only by a confrontation of arms will their differences be settled.
Episode 10 • Mar 02, 1975
The Wallace
1296: The story of William Wallace, a rough Lanarkshire knight who strikes a blow for Scottish liberty by destroying the town of Lanark and its English Sheriff.
Episode 11 • Mar 09, 1975
Shouts and Murmurs
1381: Revolt in East Anglia when the peasants are pressed beyond endurance by taxes and misgovernment by inexperienced King Richard II. Bishop Henry is sent to quell the risings.
Episode 12 • Mar 16, 1975
A Wilderness of Roses
1440: When Henry V died, the feudal families of England began to prey upon each other. Royal upstarts succeeded one another until the nation was divided into two factions, the House of York and the House of Lancaster.
Episode 13 • Mar 23, 1975
The Whip of Heaven
1538: Hugh Goodrest, a Warwickshire Lawyer, returns to his home town of Hales Owen to find the nearby Abbey and its inmates under investigation by the King's Commissioner. Rumours of monastic dissolution have reached the townspeople.
Episode 14 • Mar 30, 1975
A Rich and Beautiful Empire
1603-1618: Sir Walter Raleigh is tried on trumped-up charges of treason and imprisoned in the Tower. For 13 years, he languishes in jail, still dreaming of a legendary Peruvian empire, its treasure, and its king.
Episode 15 • Apr 06, 1975
America! America!
1610: A Puritan family in Nottinghamshire, hounded by King James I for their opposition to Anglican orthodoxy, go into unhappy exile in Holland and then decide to try the untried land of America.
Episode 16 • Apr 13, 1975
March On, Boys!
1649: King Charles I rallies his troops to fight the Roundheads and loses his head and kingdom for the trouble.
Episode 17 • Apr 20, 1975
The Agreement of the People
May 1649: The Puritan revolution has reached its climax. The soldiers' democracy is over and Oliver Cromwell takes his revenge.
Episode 18 • Apr 27, 1975
A Bill of Mortality
1665: The Royalists return. But for John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester, the Restoration means plague and despair.
Episode 19 • May 04, 1975
The Derry Boys
1689: The Protestant settlement in Ulster preempts King William's offensive against the Irish Jacobites. The apprentice boys close the gates of the town against James' troops, beginning a siege.
Episode 20 • May 11, 1975
The Fine Art of Bubble-Blowing
1720: Tom Mackenzie, a confidence trickster from Scotland, steals a certificate for £100 worth of South Sea Company stock. The craze escalates until even the Government and Royal Family are involved and a crash is inevitable.
Episode 21 • May 18, 1975
O Canada
1772: The MacAmney family are evicted from their highland homestead by the landlord to make way for sheep. Selling everything they own, they embark on a perilous sea journey to Canada.
Episode 22 • May 25, 1975
The Liberty Tree
1775: An American judge who has settled in London reconstructs in an interview with a journalist his dispute with the radical Sam Adams, the Boston Massacre and the events which led to the Boston Tea Party.
Episode 23 • Jun 01, 1975
Mother India
1781: Jack Gable apprehensively embarks on a new career as a clerk with the East India Company in Bengal. Under aegis of the lively Jack Potts, he meets some of the extraordinary characters of Calcutta society.
Episode 24 • Jun 08, 1975
Mutiny
1797: The men of an ill-governed Royal Navy refuse to put their ships to sea. Aaron Graham, a London magistrate, is sent to investigate the circumstances leading up to the mutiny. His search leads him to dark taverns and stinking docks.
Episode 25 • Jun 15, 1975
True Patriots All
1834: The Tolpuddle Martyrs are sent to Australia where a Tasmanian settler tries to get their service on his estates.
Episode 26 • Jun 22, 1975
Death of Liberty
1819-1820: The story of the Cato Street Conspiracy, the plot of a radical political group to assassinate two Government ministers as a prelude to a general uprising.
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