Michael Wood Trailers
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Michael David Wood, OBE FSA (born 23 July 1948) is an English historian and broadcaster. He has presented numerous well-known television documentary series from the late 1970s to the present day. Wood has also written a number of books on English history, including In Search of the Dark Ages, The Domesday Quest, The Story of England, and In Search of Shakespeare. He was appointed Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester in 2013.
Most Popular Michael Wood Trailers
Total trailers found: 10
05 December 2016
A former safecracker is lured back for one last job by an old flame and business partner. This is filmed in the style of a 1940s 'film-noir.
05 April 2020
Sir Ian McKellen reads the poetry, Michael Wood traces the journey on the ground. Together they conjure up the extraordinary life, times and words of China’s greatest poet, Du Fu.
01 January 1999
The worldwide Nazi search for archaeological and historical support for their beliefs in the Aryan (German) master race.
21 January 2016
Michael Wood embarks on a great historical adventure, exploring the stories, people and landscapes that have helped create China's distinctive character and genius over four thousand years.
12 February 2015
Michael Wood tells the extraordinary story of an ordinary woman in a time of revolution. Born during the reign of Henry VIII, Mary Arden is the daughter of a Warwickshire farmer, but she marries into a new life in the rising Tudor middle class in Stratford-upon-Avon.
29 July 2023
Working in ancient Greece, Phineas is an established myth writer who has finished his latest tale about a father and a son.
16 November 2017
Michael Wood explores the life, works and influence of one of the world's greatest storytellers who died 2,000 years ago.
28 June 2006
Gilbert White was a "parson-naturalist", a pioneering English naturalist, ecologist and ornithologist.
05 May 2008
Michael Wood explores village life in 14th century England, a time of plague, war and famine. Through the use of a remarkably complete set of documentary records, he explores one village - that of Codicote in Hertfordshire - looking at its boom times and its poorer times.
