Heroes and Villains (2007)

Directed by

Andrew Grieve

Genre

documentary film, docudrama

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 6 episodes

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 5 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This 2007 BBC docudrama series dramatizes the lives and military campaigns of famous historical warriors like Napoleon, Attila the Hun, and Spartacus. Each episode focuses on a different figure and uses modern historians' advice to show key events from their lives.

dramaticeducationalhistoricalseriouspacedinformativewar-themedepisodic

What happens

Heroes and Villains is a 2007 BBC Television docudrama series looking at key moments in the lives and reputations of some of the greatest warriors of history. Each hour-long episode features a different historical figure, including Napoleon I of France, Attila the Hun, Spartacus, Hernán Cortés, Richard I of England, and Tokugawa Ieyasu. The statements at the beginning of each episode read: "This film depicts real events and real characters. It is based on the accounts of writers of the time. It has been written with the advice of modern historians." In the United States the show was aired on The Military Channel and was called Warriors. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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