History in Action
From Broadcast for Schools.co.uk.co.uk
companyGranada & independent companies
started18th Jan
1984
ended18th Jun
2001
last rpt21st Nov
2007
25 school years
episodes85
duration20 mins, 50 mins & 10 mins
subject
🏛️History
age rangeAge 13-16
languageenIn English
History in Action is an ITV and later Channel 4 schools TV series from the 1980s, 1990s and 2000s, covering history for secondary school pupils.
- 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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