Michael Wood
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Biography: Michael David Wood, OBE FSA (born 23 July 1948) is an English historian and broadcaster. He has presented numerous well-known television documentary series from the late 1970s to the present day. Wood has also written a number of books on English history, including In Search of the Dark Ages, The Domesday Quest, The Story of England, and In Search of Shakespeare. He was appointed Professor of Public History at the University of Manchester in 2013.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Moss Side, Manchester, England, UK
Birthday: July 23, 1948
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Gender: Male
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Ancients
Overview: Working in ancient Greece, Phineas is an established myth writer who has finished his latest tale about a father and a son. He meets with two young, ambitious Roman publishers, Julius and Atilus, in an attempt to sell it and put his work into the world.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-07-29
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Hitler's Search for the Holy Grail
Overview: The worldwide Nazi search for archaeological and historical support for their beliefs in the Aryan (German) master race.
Genres: History Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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In Search of Myths and Heroes
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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The Story of China
Overview: Michael Wood embarks on a great historical adventure, exploring the stories, people and landscapes that have helped create China's distinctive character and genius over four thousand years.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-21
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Michael Wood on Beowulf
Overview: Historian Michael Wood returns to his first great love, the Anglo-Saxon world, to reveal the origins of our literary heritage. Focusing on Beowulf and drawing on other Anglo-Saxon classics, he traces the birth of English poetry back to the Dark Ages. Travelling across the British Isles from East Anglia to Scotland and with the help of Nobel prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney, actor Julian Glover, local historians and enthusiasts, he brings the story and language of this iconic poem to life.
Genres: Documentary History Fantasy
Original Language: en
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Christina: A Medieval Life
Overview: Michael Wood explores village life in 14th century England, a time of plague, war and famine. Through the use of a remarkably complete set of documentary records, he explores one village - that of Codicote in Hertfordshire - looking at its boom times and its poorer times. Wood brings the period to life by focusing in on one family, that of the poor peasant Christina Cok, her father Hugh, her estranged husband William, and her children John and Alice. By looking at the poorest members of Codicote's society, Wood approaches his history from the bottom-up rather than taking the traditional historical approach of top-down, 'kings and barons' story-telling.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-05
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Gilbert White: the Nature Man
Overview: Gilbert White was a "parson-naturalist", a pioneering English naturalist, ecologist and ornithologist. He is best known for his Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne. Michael Wood explores the scientific life of the remarkable man.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-06-28
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The Home Invaders
Overview: A former safecracker is lured back for one last job by an old flame and business partner. This is filmed in the style of a 1940s 'film-noir.'
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-12-05
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Ovid: The Poet and the Emperor
Overview: Michael Wood explores the life, works and influence of one of the world's greatest storytellers who died 2,000 years ago. When an Elizabethan literary critic said that the witty soul of Ovid lived on in 'honey tongued Shakespeare', they were just stating the obvious. Ovid, everyone knew, was simply the most clever, sexy and funny poet in the western tradition. His Metamorphoses, it has often been said, is the most influential secular book in European literature.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-16
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Shakespeare's Mother: The Secret Life of a Tudor Woman
Overview: Michael Wood tells the extraordinary story of an ordinary woman in a time of revolution. Born during the reign of Henry VIII, Mary Arden is the daughter of a Warwickshire farmer, but she marries into a new life in the rising Tudor middle class in Stratford-upon-Avon. There she has eight children, three of whom die young. Her husband becomes mayor, but is bankrupted by his shady business dealings. Faced with financial ruin, religious persecution and power politics, the family is the glue that keeps them together until they are rescued by Mary's successful eldest son - William Shakespeare!
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-02-12
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Du Fu: China's Greatest Poet
Overview: Sir Ian McKellen reads the poetry, Michael Wood traces the journey on the ground. Together they conjure up the extraordinary life, times and words of China’s greatest poet, Du Fu. In this film, the first to ever be made about Du Fu in the west, Michael follows his tracks by road, train and riverboat. Along the way, he meets ordinary people, dancers and musicians, who help to tell the amazing story of a poet whose words have resonated through the centuries, describing the experiences of ordinary people caught up in war, corruption, famine and natural disasters. "I am one of the privileged. If my life is so bitter, then how much worse is the life of the common people?"
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-05
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