Movies: Bettany Hughes

  • 2010
    Alexandria: The Greatest City

    Alexandria: The Greatest City (2010)

    Alexandria: The Greatest City

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    Bettany Hughes goes in search of this lost civilisation, revealing the story of a city founded out of the desert by Alexander the Great in 331 BC to become the world's first global centre of culture. The documentary also looks at the role of astronom...

    Alexandria: The Greatest City
  • 2010
    Medieval Fightbook

    Medieval Fightbook (2010)

    Medieval Fightbook

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    Follow the close analysis of an ancient fight master's manuscript depicting combat techniques and devices used over 500 years ago....

    Medieval Fightbook
  • 2014
    Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting

    Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting (2014)

    Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting

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    The history of still life painting with oil paints...

    Apples, Pears and Paint: How to Make a Still Life Painting
  • 2021
    Egypt's Great Mummies: Unwrapped with Bettany Hughes

    Egypt's Great Mummies: Unwrapped with Bettany Hughes (2021)

    Egypt's Great Mummies: Unwrapped with Bettany Hughes

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    Professor Bettany Hughes takes viewers on a journey of discovery as she investigates 10 of the greatest and most intriguing Egyptian mummies - and the secrets that lie beneath the bandages. Having remained in their tombs for thousands of years, wrapp...

    Egypt's Great Mummies: Unwrapped with Bettany Hughes
  • 2020
    Top Ten Treasures Of Pompeii

    Top Ten Treasures Of Pompeii (2020)

    Top Ten Treasures Of Pompeii

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    With cutting-edge VR, fascinating interviews, and access to the very latest discoveries, join Professor Bettany Hughes in her ultimate countdown of history’s most famous city's treasures....

    Top Ten Treasures Of Pompeii
  • 2013
    The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet

    The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet (2013)

    The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet

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    David Suchet, TV's Poirot, has spent more of his life acting out the plots and dramas created by Agatha Christie than anyone else in the world. Suchet is embarking on a journey to learn more about the woman who created Poirot and whose books remain o...

    The Mystery of Agatha Christie, With David Suchet
  • 2004
    The Minoans

    The Minoans (2004)

    The Minoans

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    The mysterious island of Crete has always loomed large in imagination, as the home of the Minotaur -- that monstrous creature, half-man half-bull -- imprisoned in Daedalus' labyrinth. Before Crete collapsed in fire and violence, it gave birth to Euro...

    The Minoans
  • 2011
    Seven Wonders of the Buddhist World

    Seven Wonders of the Buddhist World (2011)

    Seven Wonders of the Buddhist World

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    In this fascinating documentary, historian Bettany Hughes travels to the seven wonders of the Buddhist world.Her journey begins at the Mahabodhi Temple in India, where Buddhism was born; here Hughes examines the foundations of the belief system - the...

    Seven Wonders of the Buddhist World
  • 2017
    Venus Uncovered: Ancient Goddess of Love

    Venus Uncovered: Ancient Goddess of Love (2017)

    Venus Uncovered: Ancient Goddess of Love

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    In 1914, the suffragette Mary Richardson attacked the Rokeby Venus at the National Gallery in London. But why did this painting fire such outrage? Professor Bettany Hughes embarks on a voyage of discovery to reveal the truth behind the Venus depicted...

    Venus Uncovered: Ancient Goddess of Love
  • 2019
    Mars Uncovered: Ancient God of War

    Mars Uncovered: Ancient God of War (2019)

    Mars Uncovered: Ancient God of War

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    Bettany Hughes investigates the enduring relationship between warfare and worship, by following the trail of Mars, from Rome and Carthage to the present day....

    Mars Uncovered: Ancient God of War
  • 2005
    When the Moors Ruled in Europe

    When the Moors Ruled in Europe (2005)

    When the Moors Ruled in Europe

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    A documentary movie covering the 700-year reign in Spain and Portugal of the Moors. It focus on Andlucia and specifically Fes, Granada and Cordoba....

    When the Moors Ruled in Europe
  • 2018
    Bacchus Uncovered: Ancient God of Ecstasy

    Bacchus Uncovered: Ancient God of Ecstasy (2018)

    Bacchus Uncovered: Ancient God of Ecstasy

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    Professor Bettany Hughes investigates the story of Bacchus, god of wine, revelry, theatre and excess, travelling to Georgia, Jordan, Greece and Britain to discover his origins and his presence in the modern world, and explore how 'losing oneself' pla...

    Bacchus Uncovered: Ancient God of Ecstasy
  • 2024
    The Good Cheese

    The Good Cheese (2024)

    The Good Cheese

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    A heartless business owner plans to fire an employee so that he can afford to buy himself a fancy new sports car, but an unusual encounter at a local supermarket may cause him to think twice....

    The Good Cheese
  • 2005
    Helen of Troy

    Helen of Troy (2005)

    Helen of Troy

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    British historian Bettany Hughes tours the eastern Mediterranean in search of facts behind the legends of "the face that launched a thousand ships," exploring the ways Greeks made love and war circa 1300 B.C....

    Helen of Troy