L'évocation de la vie de Richard Cromwell, qui, après l'exécution du roi Charles Ier, se fait nommer Lord Protecteur d'Angleterre.
Angleterre, 1645. La cruelle guerre civile entre royalistes et parlementaires qui ravage le pays provoque une ère de chaos et d'arbitraire juridique qui permet à des hommes sans scrupules de tirer profit de l'exploitation des superstitions absurdes des paysans ; comme Matthew Hopkins, un monstre déguisé en homme qui erre de ville en ville en proposant ses services de chasseur de sorcières.
Angleterre 1648. Un petit groupe de déserteurs fuit une violente bataille à travers champs, mais se fait arrêter par deux hommes : O'Neil et Cutler. O'Neil, un alchimiste, oblige le groupe à l'aider dans sa recherche afin de trouver un trésor qu'il croit enterré sur le champ de bataille. Mais le groupe de déserteurs s'enfonce rapidement dans le chaos : dispute, bagarre, paranoïa. Il devient alors clair que le trésor n'est surement pas de l'or ? Les déserteurs deviennent petit à petit prisonnier des effroyables énergies qui émane de ce lieu...
After the battle of Worcester at the end of the Civil War, the main aim of Oliver Cromwell's Commonwealth is to capture Charles Stuart. The future king's escape depends on the intrepid Earl of Dawlish, who as the Moonraker has already spirited away many Royalists. Dawlish travels to the Windwhistle Inn on the south coast to prepare the escape, where he meets Anne Wyndham, the fiancée of a top Roundhead colonel.
Cette reconstitution historique met l'accent sur les relations tantôt amicales, tantôt hostiles, qui liaient Lord Thomas Fairfax, chef de l'armée des Indépendants, à son adjoint Oliver Cromwell, Lord-Protecteur à vie de la République d'Angleterre au XVIIe siècle. Tous deux étaient alliés dans une lutte sans merci contre le Roi d'Angleterre Charles Ier.
A 1964 British action adventure film from Hammer studios. The Scarlet Blade is set during the english civil war. A cruel Roundhead Colonel is on the trail of royalist sympathisers, but unaware of his daughters royalist sympathies. When she falls into a love triangle with Cavalier Edward Beverly and Roundhead officer Captain Sylvester the stage is set for double crossing and derring do.
An English farmer leads a village uprising against their corrupt landlords.
Three children try to fight against the destruction of a local historic landmark. They are helped by a group of friendly ghosts.
During the English Civil War, Lord Forrest attempts to sign up with the Royalist army, but is mistaken for a Roundhead and forced to join their number instead.
The English Civil War (1642–1651) was a series of armed conflicts and political machinations between Parliamentarians (Roundheads) and Royalists (Cavaliers) over, principally, the manner of England's government. The first (1642–46) and second (1648–49) wars pitted the supporters of King Charles I against the supporters of the Long Parliament, while the third (1649–51) saw fighting between supporters of King Charles II and supporters of the Rump Parliament. The war ended with the Parliamentarian victory at the Battle of Worcester on 3 September 1651. This programme charts the lead up to the war and its outbreak, setting the scene for the following programmes in the series.
The Battle of Naseby was a decisive engagement of the English Civil War, fought on 14 June 1645 between the main Royalist army of King Charles I and the Parliamentarian New Model Army, commanded by Sir Thomas Fairfax and Oliver Cromwell. It was fought near the village of Naseby in Northamptonshire. Fairfax was ordered to lift his siege of Oxford, the Royalist capital, and engage the King's main army. Eager to bring battle to the Royalists, Fairfax set off in pursuit of the Royalist army, which was heading to recover the north. The King, faced with retreating north with Fairfax close behind, or giving battle, decided to give battle, fearing a loss of morale if his army continued retreating. After hard fighting, the Parliamentarian army all but destroyed the Royalist force, which suffered 6,000 casualties out of 7,400 effectives. Charles had lost the bulk of his army. Within a year, Parliament had won the first civil war.