history Archives - Reva Childs https://revachilds.com/portfolio_tags/history/ Film and Television Editor Tue, 15 Sep 2026 13:59:20 +0000 en-GB hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.1 Secrets of the Bayeux Tapestry: Inside the Museum https://revachilds.com/work-items/secrets-of-the-bayeux-tapestry-inside-the-museum/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:52:20 +0000 https://szmdev.co.uk/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=2253 A stellar cast of historians and experts follow the painstaking efforts to bring this priceless work of art back to the UK, where experts believe it was made, for a once-in-a-millennium exhibition at the British Museum. Reviews "What makes this more than a prestige arts documentary ...

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]]> This Land https://revachilds.com/work-items/this-land/ Mon, 14 Sep 2026 14:10:37 +0000 https://szmdev.co.uk/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=2244 As America approaches the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, This Land traces the dramatic story of how a fragile nation on the Atlantic coast expanded across a continent through six defining frontiers that reshaped the country forever. Blending immersive vérité storytelling with intimate access, the series journeys from the Louisiana Purchase and ...

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]]> Waco Untold: The British Stories https://revachilds.com/work-items/waco-untold-the-british-stories/ Sun, 31 Dec 2023 17:27:30 +0000 https://revachilds.com/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=1306 In 1993, 76 members of a religious sect, called the Branch Davidians, died during an infamous 51-day siege by the FBI. Of these, 23 were British. These are their stories. Reviews “You might think you know all there is to know about the siege at Waco ...

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]]> Made in the 80s: The Decade That Shaped Our World https://revachilds.com/work-items/made-in-the-80s-the-decade-that-shaped-our-world/ Mon, 12 Dec 2022 17:36:25 +0000 https://revachilds.com/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=1286 Part 1: Cold War With the threat of nuclear Armageddon dominating politics and seeping into the country’s psyche, a handful of Brits influence the Cold War in ways no-one could have imagined. From the ad men who shaped the tastes of the nation before triumphing in Hollywood, to the women who face down the ...

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]]> Joanna Lumley’s Home Sweet Home – Travels in my Own Land https://revachilds.com/work-items/joanna-lumleys-home-sweet-home-travels-in-my-own-land/ Sat, 06 Feb 2021 18:24:44 +0000 https://revachilds.com/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=1215 After a lifetime of travels that have taken her across the globe, Joanna Lumley is making her most personal journey yet, travelling around the UK. Reviews “I found myself joyously bounced along in the passenger seat, hanging on Joanna’s every word, celebrating – along with her ...

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]]> The Diana Interview: Revenge of a Princess https://revachilds.com/work-items/the-diana-interview-revenge-of-a-princess/ Sun, 29 Nov 2020 12:48:12 +0000 http://revachilds.szmdev.co.uk/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=1125 This two-part documentary tells the inside story of Princess Diana’s 1995 interview with Martin Bashir that shocked the nation, in the process threatening the future of the monarchy and the BBC. Marking 25 years since Britain tuned in to watch Diana, previously unseen documents and testimony from eye-witnesses who have never spoken before, reveal ...

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]]> Auschwitz Untold – In Colour https://revachilds.com/work-items/auschwitz-untold-in-colour/ Wed, 01 Jan 2020 15:25:28 +0000 http://revachilds.szmdev.co.uk/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=432 With coloured black & white archive of the Nazi death camps, survivors tell their story of Auschwitz. They celebrate life and tell of the fight for survival against extreme adversity. Reviews ‘A powerful and revelatory account of one of the most hideous crimes in human history, ...

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]]> The Unremembered: Britain’s Forgotten War Heroes https://revachilds.com/work-items/the-unremembered-britains-forgotten-war-heroes/ Sun, 01 Sep 2019 10:43:06 +0000 http://revachilds.szmdev.co.uk/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=392 To mark Remembrance Day 2019, David Lammy MP explores the decisions taken to deny individual memorials for thousands of Black Africans who died in their own continent serving the British in World War 1. He travels to Africa and sees sites of mass burials and considers what ought to be done for those who ...

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]]> The Unwanted: The Secret Windrush Files https://revachilds.com/work-items/the-unwanted-secret-windrush-files/ Wed, 01 May 2019 09:22:34 +0000 http://revachilds.szmdev.co.uk/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=378 The “hostile environment” of the Windrush Scandal isn’t the first time the British Caribbean community has had to fight to be seen as British. David Olusoga opens secret government files to show how the ‘Windrush Scandal’ and the ‘hostile environment’ for black British immigrants has been 70 years in the making. ...

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]]> Army Behind the New Frontlines https://revachilds.com/work-items/army-behind-the-new-frontlines-ep2-keeping-the-peace-in-south-sudan/ Thu, 02 Aug 2018 17:35:05 +0000 http://revachilds.szmdev.co.uk/?post_type=avada_portfolio&p=482 Filmed over 18 months, this series goes into the heart of the British Army. Through the eyes of the rank and file and the leaders, it shows the challenges of fighting wars when we are not at war. on the screen

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