| History in Action | |
| ITV Schools, Channel 4 Schools | |
| Company: | Granada, independent companies |
| First run: | 18th January
1984 18th June
2001 Repeated until 21st November
2007 (25 school years) [more][less] |
| Episodes: | 85 episodes |
| Duration: | 20 minutes, 50 minutes, 10 minutes |
| Subject: | History |
| Audience: | Age 13-16 |
| Language: | In English |
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Contents |
- originally a Granada documentary series using film footage and investigative journalism techniques to apply the format of the "World in Action" documentary series to school history
- later a variety of history units on Channel 4 Schools:
- Hypotheticals (spring 1994)
- The Wild West (summer 1995), an American documentary series in six 50-minute episodes
- Film Century (spring 1997)
- Heroes or Villains (spring 1998)
- The Luttrell Psalter (spring 1998)
- The Home Front Through Home Movies (summer 1998)
- Stories in Stone (spring 1999)
- Women in the 20th Century (autumn 1999)
- Weapons of War (autumn 1999 & summer 2001)
- Letters from the Trenches (autumn 1999)
- Race in the 20th Century (autumn 1999)
- What the Papers Said (spring 2000), 10-minute episodes
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