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HOMER
Ancient Greek poet
c. 700s B. C.
Author of the Iliad and the Odyssey.
Homer lived on the island of Chios in the northern
Aegean Sea.
Homer taught and composed poems at a small site
overlooking the sea and the Anatolian coast.
At the centre of the site is a boulder called
'Homer's Rock'.
The site can be visited. (Follow the signs,
ask the guards.)
THE ILIAD
About the Trojan War - between the Greeks
and the Trojans.
Troy in the last year of a ten-year siege by
the Greeks.
The Story of the Trojan War by Homer
The narrative of the Iliad
Intro: 0:00
The Trojan War 0:47
The Suitors of Helen 3:04
The Judgement of Paris 5:12
The Greeks Assemble 9:00
The Start of the Iliad 18:19
The Tenth Year of War 21:10
The Death of Hector 24:19
The Trojan Horse 27:30
The Fall of Troy 31:29
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7iVwJb0BfE
Movie
Helen of Troy
1956
https://m.ok.ru/video/7432797555227
or
https://m.ok.ru/video/9648479734483
Fury of Achilles
1962
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvpUJ86-4BA
Troy
2004
https://www.aparat.com/v/ltglp30
THE ODYSSEY
About the long ten-year return voyage of one
of the Greek soldiers, Ulysses, after the
Trojan War, to his home island of Ithaca
in the Ionian Sea.
The narrative of the Odyssey by Homer
Intro: 0:00
The Odyssey 1:21
The Lotus Eaters 2:53
The Cyclops 3:47
Aeolus 7:35
The Laestrygonians 9:14
Circe 9:58
The Underworld 12:24
The Sirens 13:17
Scylla and Charybdis 16:38
The Cattle of the Sun 17:54
Calypso 19:42
The Phaeacians 21:18
The Suitors 24:17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OuGeoq_uVts
Movie
Ulysses
1954
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9jfh78
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZfDKkymUnU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PZfDKkymUnU&t=4s
The Iliad
In Our Time
BBC weekly programme hosted by Melvyn Bragg
Discussion with Edith Hall, Paul Cartledge
and Barbara Graziosi
13 September 2018
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bh5x1y
The Odyssey
In Our Time
BBC weekly programme hosted by Melvyn Bragg
Discussion with Simon Goldhill, Edith Hall and
Oliver Taplin
9 September 2004
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p004y297
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Virgil
Publius Vergilius Maro
Roman poet
70 BC - 19 BC
Author of The Aeneid
Recounts the legend of Aeneas
Aeneas was a Trojan. After the Greeks defeated the Trojans and destroyed Troy, Aeneas went to Italy. He was the ancestor
of the Romans.
Virgil wrote the poem between 29 and 19 BC.
Virgil wrote the poem for the Roman Emperor Augustus.
Virgil died before he finished the poem. Augustus preserved it.
The story of Aeneas
Virgil
The Aeneid
Description of Virgil and The Aeneid
Movie:
The Trojan Horse
Italian: La guerra di Troia
1961 Italian film
Steve Reeves
The tenth and last year of the Trojan War
1:41:03
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTRTXw2JJBs
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8asvhXl64bI
The Avenger
Italian: La leggenda di Enea / The Legend of Aeneas
1962 Italian film
Steve Reeves
Sequel to The Trojan Horse (1961)
1:35:26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CT4ERPfv3fM
Dido's Lament / When I am laid in Earth
From the opera Dido and Aeneas
By Henry Purcell
1688
Instrumental
Arrangement by Stokowski
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhDEQ8bhCLM&t=225s
Jessye Norman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jOIAi2XwuWo
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KING ARTHUR
The legend of King Arthur
According to Welsh legends, Arthur was a Celtic leader who led his army against the Romans in Britania early in the first
millennium.
Also, according to Welsh legends, Arthur fought the Angles and Saxons who invaded Britain in the middle of the first millennium.
The first literary reference to Arthur was Welsh in circa AD 800.
Other later literary sources place Arthur in the 500s.
Geoffrey of Monmouth described Arthur in his Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain) circa 1136 as
a king. He added Arthur's father Uther Pendragon, Merlin the magician, the sword Excalibur, Arthur's wife Guinevere, Tintagel
Castle, the Battle of Camlann, and the island of Avalon.
The French poet, Chrétien de Troyes, in the 1100s, added Arthur's castle, Camelot. He wrote about the knight, Lancelot,
and the Holy Grail (the cup of Jesus at the Last Supper).
Later, others added stories of the Knights of the Round Table to stories of Arthur.
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BEOWULF
Anglo-Saxon / Old English poetry
The poem is in Old English, or Anglo-Saxon, the
common language of England after its settlement
by Angles, Saxons, Jutes and Frisians in the
400s to some time after the Battle of Hastings
in 1066 and the subsequent Norman Conquest.
The poem recounts the story of Beowulf, a
famous warrior from the tribe of the Gaets
in southwestern Scandanavia (Sweden).
At the request of the King of the Danes,
Beowulf travels to Denmark to slay a
monster, Grendel. He kills also another
monster, Grendel's mother.
Beowulf returns home. He is the King of the
Gaets for the next 50 years.
Beowulf slays a dragon and dies of his wounds.
The events recounted in the tales are in the
last half of the first millenium - and perhaps
earlier.
Beowulf and Grendel
2005 Icelandic - Canadian - British movie
Gerard Butler as Beowulf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxvBgwGVtvM
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Y98EN3z6Qs&t=43s
In Search of Beowulf
Documentary
By Michael Wood
BBC
2009
59:13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C0sFXU0SLo
Beowulf and the Roots of Anglo-Saxon
poetry
Documentary
1999
31:07
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZnvE3DwHkIE
Beowulf
In Our Time
BBC weekly programme hosted by Melvyn Bragg
Discussion with Laura Ashe, Clare Lees
and Andy Orchard
5 March 2015
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0542xt7
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THE NORMAN CONQUEST
1066
The King of England, Edward, of Wessex, known
as Edward the Confessor, died on 5 January 1066.
Edward was succeeded as king by his
brother-in-law, Harold Godwinson, of Wessex.
Harold Godwinson was the last Anglo-Saxon King of England.
1. The Battle of Fulford / Fulford Gate
Harald Sigurdsson / King Harald III of Norway / King Harald Hardrada of Norway
and
Tostig Godwinson, brother of the King of England,
Harold Godwinson
invaded northeastern England and defeated regional
leaders at
The Battle of Fulford, near York, on
20 September 1066.
2. The Battle of Stamford Bridge
Harold Godwinson, King of England, marched north
and defeated and killed Harald Hardrada and
Tostig Godwinson
at
The Battle of Stamford Bridge, on
25 September 1066.
Harald Hardrada was the last great Viking leader.
His death marks the end of the Viking age.
3. The Battle of Hastings
William, Duke of Normandy,
sailed across the Channel with a big force and
defeated
Harold Godwinson, King of England
in
The Battle of Hastings, in east Essex, on
14 October 1066.
Harold Godwinson was the last Saxon king
of England.
William, Duke of Normandy, was the first
Norman king of England.
King Harold
Episode from the documentary series Fact or Fiction
with Tony Robinson
Channel 4
2002
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqpNSgfPOgM
The Battle of Fulford Gate
20 September 1066
Invading armies led by King Harold Hardrada
of Norway and Tostig Godwinson, brother of
the King of England, defeated the English /
Saxon army of northern English earls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AdouFSDxX8o&t=2s
The Battle of Stamford Bridge
BBC radio
In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg hosts a discussion about the Battle
of Stamford Bridge with John Hines, Elizabeth
Rowe and Stephen Baxter.
In January 1066, the English king, Edward the
Confessor, died.
A powerful nobleman, Harold Godwinson, claimed
that Edward had made him his successor.
Harold Godwinson took the throne.
But the Duke of Normandy, William, in France,
claimed that Edward had promised him the throne.
William gathered a big army of Normans and
Bretons and prepared to invade England.
Meanwhile, the King of Norway, Harald Hardrada,
sailed across the North Sea and invaded the north
of England.
The brother of Harold Godwinson, Tostig, joined
Harold Hardrada.
They defeated local English leaders at the Battle
of Fulford.
Harold Godwinson, the King of England, marched
north from London and confronted the invading
armies of Harold Hardrada and Tostig Godwinson.
The English army, led by King Harold Godwinson,
defeated the invading Vikings at the Battle of
Stamford Bridge. Harold Hardrada and Tostig were
killed.
Harold Godwinson marched his army south to confront
William of Normandy.
Three weeks later, the army of William of Normandy
defeated and killed Harold Godwinson at the Battle
of Hastings.
William of Normandy claimed the crown.
Thus began the Norman Conquest of England.
2 June 2011
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b011jvlt
Battle of Hastings
1066
Norman victory
A Norman army under William of Normandy
defeats King Harold of England
Documentary
Robert Bartlett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oLy1LskT6Y8&t=137s
The Norman Conquest of England
Documentary
English Heritage Education Service
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35ADlTmF4h8
The Norman Conquest
Documentary
With H. R. Loyn
1982
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tzPIq7X_2h8
In Search of William the Conqueror
Episode from the BBC documentary series
In Search of the Dark Ages
With Michael Wood
1981
45:22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EzGQuvFNbHg
Hastings 1066
Tapestry of a Battle
Episode from a documentary series
1994
51:32
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYoICyaLFxc
The Bayeux Tapestry
Seven Ages of Britain
BBC
David Dimbleby
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8OPQ_28mdo
Bayeux Tapestry
Animation
Original Latin text and English translation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQU9tBHQ21E
There is evidence that the Bayeux Tapestry was
altered during a restoration in the 1800s.
Before the restoration, a figure described as
the Saxon king Harold Godwinson did not have
an arrow in his eye.
Excerpt from a documentary
How Did King Harold Really Die?
The Bayeux Tapestry Uncovered
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OlcOYMUxdgo
THE DOMESDAY BOOK
BBC
In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg hosts a discussion about the
Norman Conquest and the Domesday Book
With Stephen Baxter, Elisabeth van Houts
and David Bates
17 April 2014
39:26
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b040llvb
The Norman Yoke
In Our Time
BBC radio
Melvyn Bragg hosts a discussion With Sarah Foot,
Richard Gameson and Matthew Strickland
From the novel Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott in 1819
Norman saw on English oak,
On English neck a Norman yoke;
Norman spoon in English dish,
And England ruled as Normans wish.
Is it true that the English defeat by the
Normans at the Battle of Hastings in 1066
was followed by centuries of cruel oppression
of the Anglo Saxons by Norman rulers?
10 April 2008
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009q7zm
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KING ARTHUR
A legend that has its origins in Celtic tales
before the Anglos-Saxon invasion
Added later to the legend:
King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table
Lancelot
Galahad, son of Lancelot
Guinevere, queen
Merlin, the magician
Camelot
Excalibur, the sword of King Arthur
King Arthur fought the invading Anglo-Saxons
Geoffrey of Monmouth
First narrative
c. 1135
Le Morte d'Arthur
Thomas Malory
1485
Movie
Knights of the Round Table
1953
Robert Taylor, Ava Gardner
1 hr. 56 min. 10 sec.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9osx3u
or
1 hr. 55 min. 55 sec.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ictoVosVctQ&t=12s
Dubbed in French
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9g6pw2
Movie
Camelot
A musical
1967
Richard Harris as King Arthur
Vanessa Redgrave as Queen Guenevere
3 hrs.
https://m.ok.ru/video/1302869576390
Le Morte d'Arthur
BBC
In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg hosts a discussion about the
legend of King Arthur with guests Helen
Cooper, Helen Fulton and Laura Ashe.
10 January 2013
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b01pp989
In Search of Arthur
Documentary with Michael Wood
1980
40:57
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p1tuU021TMw&t=3s
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The Adventures of ROBIN HOOD
c. 1377
Movie, 1938
Errol Flynn as Robin Hood
Olivia de Havilland as Maid Marian
Basil Rathbone as Sir Guy of Gisbourne
Claude Rains as Prince John, later King of England
Melville Cooper as the Sheriff of Nottingham
Eugene Pallette as Friar Tuck, one of the Merry
Men
Alan Hale as Little John, one of the Merry Men
The King of England is Richard the Lionheart,
from 1189 to 1199.
Richard led an army on the Third Crusade,
to retake Jerusalem, against Saladin, from
1189 to 1192.
While Richard was abroad, his younger brother,
Prince John, ruled England and schemed
against Richard.
Richard and John were the sons of King Henry
II.
On his way home from the Crusades, in 1192,
Richard was kidnapped by the Holy Roman
Emperor. Leopold. Richard was released in 1194.
Richard died in 1199 and John succeeded him
as king.
John was king until his death in 1216.
The barons compelled John to sign a royal
charter, the Magna Carta, limiting the
authority of the king, at Runnymede in 1215.
Following the defeat of the Saxons by the
Normans at the Battle of Hastings in 1066,
the Normans ruled England and exploited
the Saxons.
Sir Robin of Locksley, a Saxon noble,
opposed the excesses of Norman rule and
Prince / King John.
Robin Hood and his Merry Men hid in
Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire and
defended the oppressed Saxons.
They fought against King John.
1 hr. 41 min. 56 sec.
https://ok.ru/video/6658343242400
Tales of Robin Hood
1951 movie
Robert Clarke as Robin Hood
58:44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQvN-GK1I0A
Colourised
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfTqRW1SJJk
The Story of Robin Hood and his Merrie Men
1952
Walt Disney
1 hr. 20 min.
https://m.ok.ru/video/1216063670822
Robin Hood
In Our Time
BBC weekly programme hosted by Melvyn Bragg
Discussion with Stephen Knight, Thomas Hahn,
Juliette Wood
30 October 2003
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005492h
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MAGNA CARTA
1215
The Magna Carta
Documentary
Encyclopedia Britanica
1959
Part 1. The Rise of the English Monarchy
16:09
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdhommsCVpA
Part 2. Revolt of the Nobles and the Signing
of the Magna Carta
15:15
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjVTfO70fvg&t=5s
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GEOFFREY CHAUCER
English poet
1343 - 1400
The Canterbury Tales
c. 1370
Stories recounted by people traveling together
in a group on a pilgrimage from London to
Canterbury in the 1300s.
The pilgrims paid homage to Saint Thomas
Becket at his shrine in Canterbury Cathedral.
The poem is in Middle English (c. 1100 to
c. 1500).
Canterbury Tales
Movie
1972
Preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HSAKwwsjmZg
Movie
General Prologue
The Knight's Tale, which should be first, is omitted.
The Merchant's Tale
The Friar's Tale
The Cook's Tale
The Miller's Tale
The Wife of Bath's Prologue
The Reeve's Tale
The Pardoner's Tale
The Summoner's Tale
Epilogue
In English
1:50:25
https://m.ok.ru/video/2334725376718
In Italian
1:50:58
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x97k2xc
The Canterbury Tales
Documentary
24 tales composed by Chaucer from 1387 to 1400.
29 pilgrims travel to Canterbury
31:41
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1sZxBxo8UkU
The Canterbury Tales
Middle English
Lines 1 to 18, with translation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mVG77xTPH6E&t=29s
Chaucer's England, and
The Pardoner's Tale
Short film by Encyclopædia Britannica
1957
29:28
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJEVRxYDJz0
or
29:22
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9TXiUBOXAw
About Chaucer
In Our Time
BBC weekly programme hosted by Melvyn Bragg
Discussion with Carolyne Larrington, Helen Cooper
and Ardis Butterfield
9 February 2006
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003hycq
About Canterbury Cathedral and Saint
Thomas Becket
Becket
1964 movie
With Richard Burton as Becket, Archbishop of
Canterbury, and Peter O'Toole as King Henry
II of England
Note:
The movie, Becket, is based on the 1959 stage
play, Becket, by the French writer, Jean
Anouilh.
Becket (1119 / 1120 to 1170) was a Norman.
Anouilh thought that Becket was a Saxon.
2 hrs. 28 min. 21 sec.
https://m.ok.ru/video/1583884995270
Thomas Becket
In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg hosts a discussion about Thomas
Becket.
King Henry II chose Becket to be Chancellor
and Archbishop of Canterbury to do his
bidding. But Becket went his own way. Thus,
he was murdered - in Canterbury
Cathedral by four knights from Normandy.
With Laura Ashe, Michael Staunton and
Danica Summerlin.
14 December 2017
53 minutes
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b09hp2rm
Canterbury Cathedral
In A. D. 596, Pope Gregory I ordered Augustine,
a Benedictine abbot in Rome, to head a mission
to England and convert the English to
Christianity.
Augustine founded Canterbury Cathedral
in A. D. 597.
Canterbury Cathedral
UNESCO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICEEsKcTWmI
or
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxemUsr9PYw
CANTERBURY
Episode from the documentary series Crown and
Country
1998
King Ethelbert of Canterbury, Saint Augustin,
the Cathedral, Becket, Henry II,
Presented by Prince Edward
Prince Edward is the third son of Queen
Elizabeth II and Prince Philip.
Prince Edward has been Earl of Wessex since
1999 and Duke of Edinburgh since 2023.
25:04
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8v8qKmGwNgU
The Pilgrim's Way to Britain's Great Cathedrals
A tour of cathedrals in England with David Suchet
Episode 1 of 3
The pilgrimage from the Tabard Inn in Southwark,
London - the starting point for pilgrimages
to Canterbury in the 1300s.
2021
58:08
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS6E78hdsFo&t=2797s
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William Shakespeare
1564 - 1616
Born and died in Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire
Poet, playwright
William Shakespeare & The Quills
Horrible Histories
2021
03:23
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBZOVQQLvEM&t=1s
Shakespeare wrote in Early Modern English
(c. mid- or late 1400s to c. 1800)
'All the World's a Stage . . .'
From 'As You Like It'
1599
Act II, scene 7
Read by Sir John Gielgud
1959
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Kxm7OcEHKg
Ages of Man
Sir John Gielgud
Reciting Shakespeare
TV broadcast
1966
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwF6DNSoSSI
The Taming of the Shrew
1590 - 1592
Movie
1967
With Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor
2:01:41
https://m.ok.ru/video/8186296404686
'Kiss Me, Kate!'
A stage musical by Cole Porter
Based on Shakespeare's 'The Taming of the Shrew'
1948
Movie
1953
https://ok.ru/video/3797880474292
'From This Moment On'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rX3c88amcb0&list=RDrX3c88amcb0&start_radio=1
'Brush up your Shakespeare'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO-OTL6s1a0&t=109s
The Taming of the Shrew by William Shakespeare
Summary of the play
With animations
2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpvvivhesjI
Richard III
1597
With Laurence Olivier
1955
In colour
2:28:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nja_Qa_JGcs
Henry VII
The Original Tudor Song
Horrible Histories
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8D4CETT2tvs&list=RD8D4CETT2tvs&start_radio=1
The Merchant of Venice
1596 - 1598
Movie with Al Pacino
2004
2:11:44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TVRPo6ATpOo&t=1s
Romeo and Juliet
1597
Movie
1968
Directed by Franco Zeffirelli
Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey
2:18:14
https://ok.ru/video/1574826609350
Julius Caesar
1599
1953 movie
Marlon Brando, James Mason, Louis Calhern,
John Gielgud, Edmond O'Brien
2 hrs., 1 min.
https://archive.org/details/julius.-caesar.-1953
Henry V
1599 / 1600
Movie with Laurence Olivier
1944
2 hrs. 16 min. 34 sec.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BLBQIwZ_h4&t=1s
Shakespeare
The First Folio
Documentary
Simon Russell Beale
2014
29:11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUwiogDbbho&t=239s
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Daniel Defoe
c. 1660 - 1731
English writer
Robinson Crusoe
A novel
1719
Robinson Crusoe
Movie
Luis Buñuel
1954
1:29:14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b-YoBU0XT90
Robinson Crusoe
The True Story
Documentary
48:59
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=954ElZrTyRQ
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
13-episode TV series with Robert Hoffman (1964)
All 13 episodes play automatically, one after the other
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIFM1BvWQQg&list=PLwqxc-yNdXG3weF1_4CKlEEMvLuHxRzFa
Or
Episode 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIFM1BvWQQg&t=3s
Episode 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsbRn_b5aGY
Ep. 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuTwWSaskgc
Ep. 4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bzf0EL0NUmM
Ep. 5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HeFeXkOGLgs
Ep. 6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgrPNjU2v_E
Ep. 7
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gldhl_EuJaY
Ep. 8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BmBjL5GNluU
Ep. 9
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oEuP11zL1Jw
Ep. 10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOXliM7HE78
Ep. 11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkT1PSn-XAg
Ep. 12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6iphFhEiYU
Ep. 13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtkPbVqvhLo
Robinson Crusoe
In Our Time
BBC weekly programme hosted by Melvyn Bragg
Discussion with Karen O'Brien, Judith Hawley and
Bob Owens
22 December 2011
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b018flp4
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Jonathan Swift
1667 - 1745
Gulliver's Travels
A novel
1726, 1735
Gulliver's Travels
1939
Max Fleischer
Feature length cartoon
1:16:26
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E6eyrmYRk1w
Gulliver's Travels
1977
Richard Harris
1:16:49
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nzdon9kK5-k&t=147s
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William Blake
1757 - 1827
English poet and painter
The Tyger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gieslWfYjXE&t=62s
William Blake
In Our Time
BBC radio weekly programme hosted by
Melvyn Bragg
With Sir Jonathan Bate, Sarah Haggarty and
Jon Mee
23 June 2016
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b07gh4pg
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Born 1772, died 1834
English poet
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Poem
1798
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1raSUYAr0s0
Animation
Michael Redgrave
1975
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cicAkApGc4Y
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George Gordon Byron / Lord Byron
English Poet
1788 - 1824
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Don Juan,
Manfred, The Giaour
BYRON
BBC TV movie film
2003
Part 1: The Summer of a Dormouse
Part 2: The Eloquence of Action
2:23:33
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1t3xHPn2JH0
Childe Harold by Lord Byron
In Our Time
BBC Radio
6 January 2011
Melvyn Brag hosts a discussion with Jonathan Bate,
Jane Stabler and Emily Bernhard Jackson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3MJnxoWkv8
Byron
Biographical notes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mf1V6XM7Q2s
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Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
born Mary Wollstonecraft Godwin in 1797, died 1851
English novelist
Wife of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Frankenstein
A novel
1818
Movie
Frankenstein
Boris Karloff
1931
https://archive.org/details/frankenstein-1931-restored-movie-720p-hd
Mel Brooks
1974
https://m.ok.ru/video/2714402097862
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Sir Walter Scott
Born 1771
Died 1832
Scottish novelist
Ivanhoe
A novel, 1819
Ivanhoe
A movie
With Robert Taylor, George Sanders, Joan Fontaine,
Elizabeth Taylor
1952
1:46:42
https://ok.ru/video/771943827970
Dubbed in French
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x9g6pw2
Sequel
Knights of the Round Table
1953
Robert Taylor as Sir Lancelot
Ava Gardner as Queen Guinevere
Mel Ferrer as King Arthur
Felix Aylmer as Merlin
1:55:37
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTCKYscWC6k
The Norman Yoke
In Our Time
BBC radio
Melvyn Bragg hosts a discussion With Sarah Foot,
Richard Gameson and Matthew Strickland
From the novel Ivanhoe by Sir Walter Scott in 1819
Norman saw on English oak,
On English neck a Norman yoke;
Norman spoon in English dish,
And England ruled as Normans wish.
Is it true that the English defeat by the
Normans at the Battle of Hastings in 1066
was followed by centuries of cruel oppression
of the Anglo Saxons by Norman rulers?
10 April 2008
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b009q7zm
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Victor Hugo
born 1802, died 1885
French writer
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
A novel
Set in Paris in 1482
1831
Movie
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
With Charles Laughton and Maureen O'Hara
1939
https://m.ok.ru/video/3070357932544
Movie
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
with Anthony Quinn and Gina Lollobrigida
1956
In French with English sub-titles
1:59:28
https://m.ok.ru/video/4601579965126
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Charles Dickens
Born 1812, died 1870
English novelist
Novels
Oliver Twist
1837 - 1839
Movie
1948
Alec Guinness as Fagin
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8ra1bz
2005
Directed by Roman Polanski
Ben Kingsley as Fagin
https://ok.ru/video/3696898607796
A Christmas Carol
1843
Movie
Scrooge
1935
Seymour Hicks as Scrooge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmQcRxqPELs
A Christmas Carol
1938
Reginald Owen as Scrooge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9_0CzPM8VQ&t=540s
David Copperfield
1849 - 1850
Movie
1935
Freddie Bartholomew as David Copperfield
With Edna May Oliver, Basil Rathbone, Lionel
Barrymore, Elsa Lanchester, W. C. Fields,
Maureen O'Sullivan
https://m.ok.ru/video/2329576999630
Great Expectations
1860 - 1861
Movie
1946
With Alec Guinness, Jean Simmons
https://m.ok.ru/video/2194470865602
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Alexandre Dumas
French novelist
1802 - 1870
The Three Musketeers / Les Trois Mousquetaires)
1844 novel
In 1625, a young fencer, d'Artagnan, goes to Paris,
to be, like his murdered father, a musketeer - the guard of the King of France.
THE THREE MUSKETEERS
ANIMATED BOOK SUMMARY
07:05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kM7PfJFSI1s&t=3s
Movie
1948
Gene Kelly as d'Artagnan
Van Heflin
Vincent Price
02:05:49
https://m.ok.ru/video/3852249664206
Movie
1973
Michael York as d'Artagnan
Oliver Reed as Athos
Frank Finlay as Porthos / O'Reilly
Richard Chamberlain as Aramis
Raquel Welch as Constance Bonacieux
Jean-Pierre Cassel as King Louis XIII
Geraldine Chaplin as Anne of Austria
Charlton Heston as Cardinal Richelieu
Faye Dunaway as Milady de Winter
Christopher Lee as the Count De Rochefort
Simon Ward as the Duke of Buckingham
Spike Milligan as M. Bonacieux
Roy Kinnear as Planchet
Georges Wilson as Captain de Tréville
01:47:02
https://m.ok.ru/video/9385952414222
movie
1993
Walt Disney
1 hr. 45 min.
https://m.ok.ru/video/9663345396398
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Nathaniel Hawthorne
Born 1804, died 1864
American novelist
The Scarlet Letter
A novel, 1850
Movie, 1934
With Alan Hale
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GwktKVIPiOg&t=1889s
The House of the Seven Gables
A Novel, 1851
Movie, 1940
With George Sanders, Vincent Price
1:28:31
https://ok.ru/video/357082860256
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Edgar Allan Poe
American poet
1809 - 1849
The Raven
1845
Christopher Lee
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BefliMlEzZ8
Film adaptation
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCL20FkCNN8
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Herman Melville
born 1819, died 1891
American novelist
Moby Dick
Novel
1851
Moby Dick
Movie
1956
Gregory Peck
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8j0pz9
Billy Budd, Sailor
Unfinished novella
Movie
1962
Peter Ustinov
https://m.ok.ru/video/3438638664192
or
https://m.ok.ru/video/9096163297849
Moby Dick
In Our Time
BBC
Discussion hosted by Melvyn Bragg about Herman
Melville, whaling in the 1800s, the great white
sperm whale Moby Dick, and Captain Ahab's
pursuit of the whale for biting off his leg.
With Bridget Bennett, Katie McGettigan and
Graham Thompson
7 December 2017
51 minutes
https://www.bbc.com/audio/play/b09gzjm5
The Inspiration for the story of Moby Dick
The whaling ship Essex
The Essex was rammed and sunk by a whale in
the Pacific
1820
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hUba4HITtI8
In the Heart of the Sea
Movie based the book In the Heart of the Sea:
The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex, by
Nathaniel Philbrick, published in 2000,
about the sinking of the American whaling
ship Essex in 1820.
2015
2:01:43
https://dal.ahwaktv.net/see.php?vid=f17081141
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Lev Nikolayevich Tolstoy / Leo Tolstoy
Russian author
1828 - 1910
War and Peace
A novel
1869
Movie
1956
Henry Fonda, Audrey Hepburn, Mel Ferrer, Anita Ekberg
3:28:23
https://m.ok.ru/video/2124911020707
Anna Karenina
A novel
1878
Movie
1935
Greta Garbo, Basil Rathbone, Maureen O'Sullivan
https://m.ok.ru/video/294321195683
Movie
1948
Vivien Leigh, Ralph Richardson
1:33:53
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6k6xqn
or
1:52:46
https://m.ok.ru/video/4024014867150
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Jules Verne
born 1828, died 1905
French writer
Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas
A novel by Jules Verne
1870
Movie produced by Walt Disney
1954
With James Mason, Kirk Douglas and Peter Lorre
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFc70cEE51s&t=9s
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Born 1850, died 1894
Scottish novelist
The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
1886 novel
Movie
Spencer Tracey and Ingrid Bergman
1941
https://m.ok.ru/video/2047459789314
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Oscar Wilde
Irish writer and poet
Born 1854, died 1900
The Picture of Dorian Gray
A novel
1890
Movie
With George Sanders
1945
https://archive.org/details/picture-of-dorian-gray-1945
Oscar Wilde
Spendthrift of Genius
Documentary
1986
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oxZudaO67Fg&t=3s
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Rudyard Kipling
Born 1865, died 1936
British novelist, poet
Gunga Din
A poem
1890
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TBWyyectufs&t=45s
Movie
1939
https://m.ok.ru/video/276410862243
Mandalay
A poem
1890
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6mRt50wyaLg
Captains Courageous
A Story of the Grand Banks
A novel by Rudyard Kipling
1897
Captains Courageous
Movie
1937
With Spencer Tracy, Freddie Bartholomew, Lionel
Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, Mickey Rooney,
John Carradine
1 hr., 56 min., 43 sec.
https://m.ok.ru/video/287229676195
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Arthur Conan Doyle
Born 1859, died 1930
English writer
Sherlock Holmes
1891
The Hound of the Baskervilles
1939 film
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZybqUiJucf8&t=225s
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
1939 film
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x843opa
Dressed to Kill
1946
Basil Rathbone as Sherlock Holmes
Nigel Bruce as Dr. Watson
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VL-sxm8fGg&t=8s
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Stephen Crane
born 1871, died 1900
American writer
The Red Badge of Courage
A novel
1895
The American Civil War in 1862
A movie
Audie Murphy
1951
https://ok.ru/video/4216633690804
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Bram Stoker
Irish author
1847 - 1912
Dracula
Novel, 1897
Movie
Dracula
With Bala Lugosi
1931
Preview
https://mubi.com/en/films/dracula-1931/trailer
Movie
1 hr. 14 min. 26 sec.
https://videa.hu/videok/film-animacio/drakula-1931-bela-lugosi-r7ImKWabV1Ze0eOo
Movie
The Fearless Vampire Killers
Roman Polanski
1967
1:47:24
https://m.ok.ru/video/6926426376910
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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
French author
29 June 1900 - 31 July 1944
Courrier sud / Southern Mail / Southern Carrier
Novel, 1929
Movie, 1937
Courrier sud
91 minutes
Extrait / Excerpt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL-0f5wryqg&t=107s
Critique de François Vinneuil, Je suis Partout
du 23.01.1937
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26hPdK-rYD8&t=16s
Night Flight
Novel, 1931
Movie, 1933
Night Flight
With Clark Gable
1:24:58
https://m.ok.ru/video/6891753572891
Le Petit Prince / The Little Prince
Book published in 1943
French Text
Read by Anthony Diaz of Toulon, a port in southern
France
2024
1:52:47
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl0CHsJH88k&t=98s
Translation in English by Richard Howard
Read by Kenneth Branagh
The Little Prince: Owen Evans
2000
1:45:44
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APG1upS8LDw&t=4505s
Movie
The Little Prince
1966 Soviet feature film
In Russian
First film adaptation
1:03:56
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LX8x0DWYoJc&t=256s
or
1:03:45
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TNSt32XF38&t=79s
SAINT EX
WW2
Free French Air Force Captain Saint-Exupéry took
off in his Lightning P-38, modified for
reconnaissance and photographic missions, from
the aerodrome of Bastia-Borgo in Corsica at
8 hours 45 on 31 July 1944.
Saint-Exupéry headed for the south of France
on a photographic mission in preparation for
the planned Allied landings in Provence,
which were conducted on 15 August 1944.
Saint-Exupéry did not return.
In 1998 a fisherman from Marseilles pulled
up his nets and found a chain bracelet of
Saint-Exupéry.
A German WW2 fighter pilot recalled shooting
down St.-Ex.
2010
15:05
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qh3lE3lWCQE
The Mystery of Saint-Exupéry's Disappearance
Histoire de guerre
30:21
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=63FEVvmFsU0
Remembering Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
FRANCE 24 English
2024 ?
12:10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iKtGU6qIX4k&t=72s
Saint-Exupéry
Des nuages aux profondeurs
2017
26:07
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5N__ecxFe3w
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Pearl Buck
1892 - 1973
The Good Earth
A novel, 1931
Movie
With Paul Muni and Louise Rainer
January 1937
2:18:10
https://ok.ru/video/5892456581843
2:18:10
https://ok.ru/video/6164637747880
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James Hilton
1900 - 1954
British novelist
Lost Horizon
A Novel
1933
Movie
1937
Preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ7g3HOGENs
In 1935, a group of foreigners escape an uprising
in China by plane. The plane is hi-jacked by a
local and diverted to the Himalayas.
Passengers:
Ronald Colman as Robert Conway, a British
diplomat who is returning to Britian to
take up his new appointment as foreign
secretary
Edward Everett Horton as Alexander Lovett,
a paleontologist
John Howard as George Conway, younger brother
of Robert Conway
Thomas Mitchell as Henry Barnard, a notorious
American swindler
Gloria, a sick and dying young woman
Inhabitants of Shangri-La:
Chang, Tibetan in charge of Shangri-La
The aging High Lama of Shangri-La
Sondra and Maria, residents
2:13:09
https://ok.ru/video/33999686314
James Hilton
NBC
1950
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7PV6gkkbS0
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Gone with the Wind
A novel, 1936
by Margaret Mitchell, American writer
The story recounts the fortunes and misfortunes
of a family with a big plantation in Georgia
during the American Civil War (1861 - 1865) and
the subsequent Reconstruction Era (1865 - 1877).
The family is wealthy.
The head of the family's daughter, Scarlet O'Hara,
marries a prominent local man, Rhett Butler.
Movie
1939
With Clark Gable, Vivian Leigh, Leslie Howard, Thomas Mitchell, Cliff Edwards, Ward Bond, George Reeves,
Olivia de Havilland, Hattie McDaniel
3:46:17
https://www.flixhouse.com/view/?v=1147&channelName=FlixHouse&lang=hu_HU
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The Spanish Civil War
1936 to 1939
Spain was a kingdom, with a monarchy, since the time
of the Visigoths (A. D. 418 to 721).
In 1873, the King of Spain abdicated. A republic was proclaimed by liberals in parliament.
In the following year, 1874, the Spanish military
restored the monarchy.
In 1931, the King of Spain was deposed and the Republic, called the Second Republic, was restored.
In 1934, the Left staged a revolt. Fighting followed.
The military stopped the fighting.
In 1936, leftists won national legislative elections
and formed the government.
The military opposed the new government. A civil war
ensued with Republicans and leftists on one side,
defending the Republic and the government, and rightists, called Nationalists, on the other side.
The Republicans were backed by workers, liberals,
democrats, socialists, communists, anarchists,
separatists and many sympathizers abroad. Many went
to Spain and fought as volunteers. They formed the International Brigades.
The Soviet Union backed the Republic.
The Nationalists were backed by monarchists, conservatives, the military and fascists - and many sympathizers abroad.
Hitler and the German Nazis and Mussolini and the Italian fascists supported the Nationalists.
In 1939, the Republicans surrendered and the Spanish miliary, led by General Francisco Franco, ruled the
country.
Franco died in 1975.
Subsequently, democracy and monarchy were restored.
The Spanish Civil War
Documentary series
Granada TV / Britain
1983
Six episodes
Each episode is about 52 to 53 minutes
Episode 1
Prelude to Tragedy
1931 - 1936
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_I6C-VbFvI&t=1718s
or
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7yr520
Episode 2
Revolution, Counter Revolution and Terror
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x15nh46
Episode 3
Battleground for Idealists
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x15nej0
Episode 4
Franco and the Nationalists
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7yr50l
Episode 5
Inside the Revolution
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7yrz8t
Episode 6
Victory and Defeat
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x15nd7w
The Spanish Civil War
In Our Time
BBC weekly programme hosted by Melvyn Bragg
Discussion with Paul Preston, Helen Graham and
Mary Vincent
3 April 2003
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p003hycq
Land and Freedom / Tierra y Libertad
1995 British movie
A leftist Republican government was
formed after elections in 1936.
The Nationalists staged a coup d'état
against the Republican government.
The Nationalists are backed by the Right
- monarchists, conservatives, the church,
German Nazis and Italian Fascists.
The Spanish Republic and the Republicans
were backed by the Left - socialists,
anarchists, communists and separatists.
An unemployed worker in England is a
member of the Communist Party of Great
Britain. He decides to fight in the
Spanish Civil War for the Republicans,
against the Nationalists.
1 hr. 49 min. 11 sec.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cddloph0CCk&t=2292s
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Ernest Hemingway
1899 - 1961
American writer
For Whom the Bell Tolls
A novel, 1940
Spain 1937
The Spanish civil war / 1936 - 1939
The democratically elected government of
the Spanish Republic fights the Spanish
military, which staged a coup d'etat.
The Republicans are aided by democrats and
leftists. The military are backed by
conservatives, monarchists, fascists,
German Nazis and Italian fascists.
The International Brigades were an armed
force of volunteers from abroad fighting
for the Republic.
An American teacher goes to Spain and joins
the International Brigades. He is a dynamiter.
He is assigned to blow up a bridge to cover
a planned Republican offensive.
Movie, 1943
With Gary Cooper, Ingrid Bergman
Preview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZKB-Suz_2DQ
and
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LulOu9JiJ_8
Part 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sueOfxx7QHQ
Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Kip_Sxes7s
Both parts in one
2:45:30
https://m.ok.ru/video/3715679914702
By order of appearance:
Gary Cooper as Robert Jordan
Feodor Chaliapin Jr. as Kashkin
Leo Bulgakov as General Golz
Vladimir Sokoloff as Anselmo, guide
Akim Tamiroff as Pablo, leader of the camp
Mikhail Rasumny as Rafael, the 'gypsy'
Ingrid Bergman as María, camp cook
Katina Paxinou as Pilar, wife of Pablo
Arturo de Córdova as Agustín
Joseph Calleia as El Sordo
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Walter Van Tilburg Clark
American writer
Born 1909, died 1971
THE OX-BOW INCIDENT
A novel about a lynching in Nevada in 1885
1940
A movie
1943
Henry Fonda, Harry Morgan, Dana Andrews,
Anthony Quinn
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x8szpws
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Thor Heyerdahl
Norwegian writer
KON-TIKI
The Kon-Tiki Expedition: By Raft Across the
South Seas
Published in 1948
The expedition was in 1947
Movie
Kon-Tiki
1950
58:17
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvBYfba8nv8
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Eric Arthur Blair
Pen name: George Orwell
1903 - 1950
English writer
Nineteen Eighty-Four / 1984
A novel
1949
Life in a totalitarian state.
Movie
With Edmund O'Brien
1956
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajWC_J-jgLc
With Richard Burton
1984
1:50:30
https://vk.com/video-103432387_456239024
1:50:30
https://m.ok.ru/video/2099989383878
Nineteen Eighty-Four
BBC
In Our Time
Melvyn Bragg, the programme host, and guests David Dwan, Lisa Mullen and John Bowen discuss Orwell's last novel, 1984.
15 September 2022
42 min.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m001bz77
Orwell wrote several other popular novels:
Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)
Burmese Days (1934)
Homage to Catalonia (1938)
Animal Farm (1945)
Homage to Catalonia
Orwell recounted his experiences in the
Spanish Civil War
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CIM1hOLaew&t=638s
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The Bridge on the River Kwai
A Novel by Pierre Boulle
1952
Movie
1957
The Second World War / The Asia Pacific War
1943
The Japanese invaded and captured Indo-China,
Malaya, Singapore, Thailand and Burma in
1941 and 1942.
The Japanese want to take India.
The Japanese must complete a railroad from
Bangkok to Calcutta. The Japanese use
British and American prisoners of war
(POWs) to build the railroad. They send
the POWs from a prison camp in Singapore to
Thailand and Burma to work on the railroad.
The British want to destroy the railroad.
They must destroy also a railroad bridge
that crosses over a river, called the Kwai.
Alec Guinness as Colonel Nicholson, British
army, senior P. O. W.
William Holden as Commander Shears, U. S. Navy,
P. O. W.
Jack Hawkins, British commando
Sessue Hayakawa, Japanese commander of the
P. O. W. camp
2 hrs. 41 min.
https://m.ok.ru/video/7979100670670
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
A novel, 1962
By Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Russian writer
Born, 1918
Died, 2008
The novel recounts one day in the life of
Ivan Denisovich Shukhov, a prisoner in a
Soviet labor camp in the 1950s.
Solzhenitsyn was a prisoner and in internal
exile from 1945 to 1956. He was expelled
from the Soviet Union in 1974. He lived
abroad for the next twenty years, until
1994.
Movie
1:45:07
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJLREAHKDrw
1:45:48
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hOEPmltff6A
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Documentary
1999
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jDUb99gTVJA
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A trip to France
Chartres Cathedral
Chartres Cathedral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AgICy_RHFaY
Chartres Cathedral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jk3VsinLgvc
The Gothic Cathedral of Chartres
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2k222COjv8o
LA CATHEDRALE DE CHARTRES
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3XmuQTFfJqM
La cathédrale Notre-Dame-de-Chartres
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uC-RtXWeCiI
The Cathedral of Our Lady of Chartres
Part 1 of 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tEhLAXYkd4g
Part 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sqzEbOoWMao
The Cathedral of Chartres
The Vaults
1970
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VG-cRvq0yvg
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