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Britain BC

Season 1 2003

  • 2003-02-20T00:00:00Z on Channel 4
  • 50m
  • 1h 40m (2 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • Documentary
A provocative two-part BBC series in which Francis Pryor offers a new view of Britain before the Roman invasion, suggesting that it was infinitely more sophisticated than once thought.

2 episodes

Series Premiere

2003-02-20T00:00:00Z

1x01 Episode 1

Series Premiere

1x01 Episode 1

  • 2003-02-20T00:00:00Z50m

The most comprehensive vision of pre-Roman Britain ever to be shown on television portrays not crude, uncivilized savages but a highly developed, cultured people.

2003-02-27T00:00:00Z

1x02 Episode 2

1x02 Episode 2

  • 2003-02-27T00:00:00Z50m

There's a general misconception that, before to the arrival of the Romans, Britain was a place of wild untamed tribes, united only in their ignorance and barbarity. Yet archaeology is now starting to show that the people who met Caesar's armies were in fact a sophisticated civilization who had as much to lose as gain from subjugation by Rome.

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