Tag: TV
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The Dig: A Review
★★★★☆ Beautifully shot and movingly emotional, The Dig is an impressive example of how the process of history and archaeology can be adopted for drama, even if the film has a tendency to run away with that drama. Making a drama about archaeology is an almost knife-edge impossibility, for the simple reason that real day-to-day…
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Hamilton: A Historian’s Review
★★★★☆ The smash-hit musical made available to the world, Hamilton tells the story of the ill-fated founding father through hip-hop. But how good is its historical content? If the production loses a little of its charm when transitioned from the stage to the screen, it still pulls off an enjoyable and genuinely engrossing performance. It’s…
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Top 9 History Documentaries for History Buffs
Everyone loves a good documentary, especially in the age of lockdown. The problem is, there are as many bad ones as good ones – badly researched, strange topics or, god forbid, aliens. As a result, people tend to look down on documentaries as overly casual and not ‘serious history’. I’m here to say the opposite:…