Taboo, sigue a James Keziah Delaney (Hardy), un hombre que regresa a su hogar, Londres, después de que muchos le diesen por muerto. Creada por Knight a partir de una historia original del propio Hardy y su padre Chips Hardy, la serie contará cómo James recibe la herencia del imperio de navíos de su progenitor e intenta reconstruir su vida. Algo que no le resultará fácil cuando tienes enemigos que quieren acabar con tu vida.
Jeremy Irons interpreta a un sencillo estudiante de Oxford impresionado por Sebastian Flyte, el hijo más joven de la noble y acaudalada familia de los Marchmain, que reside en la mansión de Brideshead. Pronto la admiración dará paso al amor entre ambos jóvenes.
Sudáfrica, 1823. El imperio zulú, encabezado por el rey Shaka, un brillante pero despiadado estratega militar, comienza a hostigar a los habitantes de la colonia británica de Ciudad del Cabo. Un grupo de exploradores voluntarios, mercenarios y soldados profesionales son enviados a Zululandia para intentar establecer contacto con Shaka y evaluar la amenaza real de su ejército.
Seven Ages of Britain is a BBC television documentary series which is written and presented by David Dimbleby. The seven part series was first aired on Sunday nights at 9:00pm on BBC One starting on 31 January 2010.
The series covers the history of Britain's greatest art and artefacts over the past 2000 years. Each episode covers a different period in British history. In Australia, all seven episodes aired on ABC1 each Tuesday at 8:30pm from 7 September 2010.
As a young reporter, David Dimbleby made three Panorama films on Rhodesia between 1967 and 1968, following its Unilateral Declaration of Independence. This three-part series tells the inside story of white Rhodesia's revolt against the British crown and the long battle to bring full democracy to an independent Zimbabwe.
La Segunda Guerra Mundial transformó el mapa político en oriente y occidente. Mediante imágenes de archivo y entrevistas se explica cómo se reconfiguró el mundo en dos décadas.
The British Empire in Colour is a major three part series that examines the history and experience of the British Empire, form the perspectives of both the rulers and the ruled. Using original colour archive film - much of which had never previously been seen - together with personal letters and diary extracts helping to capture the many complexities and contradictions of life in the British Empire.
Empire is a major five-part series presented by Jeremy Paxman. It tells the story of the British Empire in a new way, tracing not only the rise and fall of the empire but also the complex effects of the empire on the modern world – political, technological and social – and on Britain.
Writer Sathnam Sanghera travels across the country exploring the effects of the British Empire on modern Britain