Wartime Farm (2012)

Genre

documentary film

Country

United Kingdom

Length

1 season, 8 episodes

Rated

TV-G

Rating

8.8 of 10 from 8 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Historians and archaeologists move onto an English farm and try to run it as it would have been during World War II. They perform old chores and use vintage equipment to show what everyday life was like on the home front.

educationalnostalgicearthyhands-onreflectiveslow-pacedhistoricalinstructional

What happens

Wartime Farm is a British historical documentary TV series in eight parts in which the running of a farm during the Second World War is reenacted, first broadcast on BBC Two on 6 September 2012. The series, the fourth in the historic farm series, following the original, Tales from the Green Valley, was made for the BBC by independent production company Lion Television in association with the Open University, and was filmed at Manor Farm Country Park, now Manor Farm and River Hamble Country Park respectively, close to Southampton. The farming team consisted of historian Ruth Goodman, and archaeologists Alex Langlands and Peter Ginn. The Wartime Farm commissioning executives for the BBC are Emma Willis and James Hayes, and the Executive Producer for Lion Television is David Upshal. An associated book by Langlands, Ginn and Goodman—Wartime Farm: Rediscovering the Skills and Spirit of World War II—was published in 2012. In addition, a free booklet was made available to viewers in the UK and Ireland, by the Open University. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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