Heroes and Villains
Series looking at the reputations of historical figures
Heroes and Villains - Cortes
Drama documentary. The Spanish adventurer Hernan Cortes is supposed to have taken the Aztec empire with a few soldiers and 16 horses. Can that be true?
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Heroes and Villains - Napoleon
Drama-documentary starring Tom Burke and Rob Brydon telling how Napoleon Bonaparte rose from being a penniless soldier to create an empire, beginning at the siege of Toulon in 1793.
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Heroes and Villains - Richard the Lionheart
Drama-documentary about Richard the Lionheart. Was he the heroic warrior of Robin Hood? Or was he just a thug who looted the Holy Land? This film suggests that he was neither.
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Heroes and Villains - Spartacus
Dramatised documentary revealing Spartacus as he really was, a brilliant fighter and leader of a guerrilla band, but a flawed and indecisive human being.
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Heroes and Villains - The Shogun
Drama-documentary about the Samurai general Tokugawa Ieyasu. He overthrew the governing dynasty of Japan and become the Shogun - the supreme military leader - of Japan.
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