Reel History Of Britain

`Reel History of Britain', a co-production in association with the British Film Institute and Regional Archives from around the UK, is an exhaustive 20-part series that tells of past hardships and simple pleasures of British life, incorporating the many social changes that took place from the 1900s onward. Presenter Melvyn Bragg travels back in time to reveal what life was really like for ordinary British people. He meets members of the public who appeared in the historic films featured in the series -- social documentaries, tourist information films, newsreels and government propaganda films, all of which have been restored by Britain's film archives. Episodes include interviews with wartime evacuees, Home Guard veterans, labourers who laid the first motorways in the 1960s, folks who lived and worked during the boom of the British seaside holiday, and one of the six young women chosen to carry the Royal train during the 1953 coronation of Queen Elizabeth II. …  MORE