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Once Upon a Time in Northern Ireland, a five-episode documentary about the decades-long conflict known as “The Troubles”, is that rarest of treasures, a series that speaks to viewers with great prior knowledge and to those who are newcomers to the subject alike. The series, from Once Upon
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The Good Friday Agreement, signed in April 1998 and ratified by both Ireland and Northern Ireland by popular vote a month later in May 1998, marked the end of a long and turbulent history between the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland, which had been actively violent for the
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Most Anglophiles have likely heard of John le Carré. After all, he's widely considered one of the greatest novelist of the postwar era, the bestselling mind behind such famous novels as The Spy Who Came in from the Cold and The Constant Gardener. If you haven't
Sundance Now
It's a truth universally acknowledged that often real life can be a whole lot stranger (and often much, much darker) than fiction. This, of course, is a big part of the reason that the true crime genre is so enduringly popular. And the story of Irish criminal and
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In case you were missing them, we’ve got a new streaming documentary to tell a buzzy story from pop culture past that’s also endorsed by the central subjects and estates and fundamentally uncritical of any of the information they offer – but this time it’s about WHAM!, so
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Earth Day originated in the 1960s as those who jumped on the climate change bandwagon tried to draw attention to how humans affected the environment. In 1969, Wisconsin environmental activist Sen. Gaylord Nelson came up with the idea to hold a nationwide ecological teach-in on April 22, 1970, known
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David Attenborough's Frozen Planet II only just finished airing on BBC America in March, but there's already another Attenborough series on the way for April and Earth Day 2023. His latest special, Wild Isles, which aired on BBC One in February 2023 (though not without some
BBC America
While Doctor Who gears up to become Disney+'s newest franchise for 2023 and Luther arrives in theaters for the first time, BBC America is doubling down on nature specials. The current success of Frozen Planet II was almost assured since anglophiles across the globe love David Attenborough. The
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At 96 years old, U.K. national treasure David Attenborough has been making documentary specials about the natural world for 70+ years. Though one of his few British contemporaries still remaining, Queen Elizabeth finally passed in 2022 (she was all of a few weeks older), he's still going.
BritBox
BritBox's December 2022 offerings may be throwbacks to the streaming service's original intent, but that's just the deep breath before the ITV and BBC owned hurls itself bodily into 2023. The service is getting into producing originals in a big way, with plans for
Documentary
Two of the U.K.'s greatest treasures were born within weeks of each other in 1926. On April 12, Elizabeth Alexandra Mary Windsor was born and became England's longest-serving monarch. Less than a month later, on May 8, David Frederick Attenborough was born. Attenborough is
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It's been a quarter century since the tragic death of Princess Diana, and it still seems as though we can't get enough of her story. From television series (Netflix's The Crown) to feature films (Spencer) and even a Broadway musical (Diana: The Musical), we&