Tony Robinson's Crime and Punishment (2008)

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 4 episodes

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Tony Robinson travels through history to show how British laws and punishments began. He looks at old methods like trials by boiling water and the beheading of a king. The series explains how these ideas led to modern democracy.

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What happens

Tony Robinson's Crime and Punishment is a British documentary for Channel 4. In a four-part series, Tony Robinson goes on a fascinating and sometimes bizarre journey to discover the origins of our laws and what we do to people when they break them. From trials by boiling water, through the decapitation of a king, to the emergence of our modern democracy, it is a journey that starts two thousand years ago and remains unfinished today. It aired on Australian screens in 2009 on ABC1. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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